Kindle Book: Cinder

Cinder

by Marissa Meyer

Length: 389 pages

Format: Kindle Book

Price: $2.99

Author Website: http://www.marissameyer.com/

Basic Premise: When the prince's android suddenly loses power, he takes her to New Beijing's best mechanic - a teenage girl named Cinder - and a spark flares.  What is not commonly known about Cinder is the fact that she is a cyborg - part human, part machine.  What will the prince think if he ever finds out? 

My Take:  7 out of 10 (scale here)

Okay - could you hear the drama in my voice as I wrote that premise?  I know - it's pretty far-fetched and ridiculous - a version of the Cinderella story set in the extreme future with robots.  But I read it because it was on my list, and it actually sounded relatively interesting.  I went through a few phases with this book.  I the beginning, as soon as I found out she was a cyborg, I wanted to put it down.  I was like, "Seriously? I'm reading about a robot with feelings?" but then as I read (spoiler alert?) I realized that she was born a human and made into a cyborg to save her life, kind of like they turn people into vampires in the Twilight books.  Anyway, the story got really really good midway through and I couldn't put it down.  The whole time, I was thinking "This is so ridiculous. It's definitely a guilty pleasure book."  Until the end, which sucked.  I was miffed.  I cornered one of my girls at school who told me it was "so so awesome" and asked her what the heck.  She told me to read the second one, so I checked it out from the library, but so far, Cinder hasn't made an appearance, and I'm utterly uninterested in Scarlet.  Not sure if I'll stick with it.