It’s hard to shake a stick near a young adult section of a bookstore these days without hitting a fairy tale retelling, and this one (the first in a quartet) was all the rage among book bloggers when I started my own close to a decade ago. I’ll be honest, I’ve mostly found these sorts of books to not have a lot of substance once you get past the hype, usually full of tropes and flat characters. This one was better than many, retelling Cinderella as the story of Linh Cinder, a teenage cyborg mechanic in a cyberpunky New Beijing who becomes drawn into the simmering tensions between the kingdoms of Earth and the royal family of the Moon when the crown prince of her country stops by her shop with an android needing repair. It’s nothing truly spectacular, but the characters are winning and the major plot elements are referenced in a way that’s original and clever, albeit unsurprising. The prose is not especially inspired, but it goes down easily and quickly enough. It does, of course, end on a cliffhanger to give the sequels a launching-off point, but I was sufficiently engaged that I’ll be continuing on with the series! ( )

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Cinder is a mechanic and a cyborg, living in a cyberpunk version Beijing. There's a lot going on here - a deadly plague, romance, interplanetary political intrigue, and all kinds of secrets - and somehow it all works, loosely draped around the general Cinderella framework. There's a ball, a lost shoe (well, foot), a wicked stepmother, a handsome prince. And it's just really well done. I very much enjoyed this and look forward to the rest of the series. ( )

{my thoughts} - This book is about a young girl named {linh cinder}. She is a {cyborg/human}. She has feelings and thoughts just like humans do however she is classified as being less then human as being nothing but someone else’s property. She has a run in with {prince kai} and he and her begin to get to know each other. Eventually he gets up the nerve to ask her out on a date. However, she doesn’t tell him she is a {cyborg}. The book goes through her trial and error of trying to accept herself, of wanting him to understand and accept her for who she is and of wanting to run away and forget about everything she has ever known. She has a lot of spunk, a lot of determination and can be rather emotional. It’s a really nice book that is well written with a different take on the whole {cinderella fairy-tale stories}. If you enjoy reading different takes on {fairy-tales} then I am certain you will enjoy this book.

{reason for reading} - I like reading the different takes individuals have on {fairy-tales} so this book seemed Ideal for me. I really enjoyed reading it and look forward to reading the next one in the series. ( )

Ein Retell von Aschenbrödel, und doch so viel mehr... Eine tolle Geschichte, an manchen Stellen etwas vorhersehbar aber spannend erzählt. Macht wirklich Spaß! ( )