Book Review: Cinder!
The new cover of Cinder by Marissa Meyer ( Image Source ) Firstly, I just want to say that I am a hard sell on Sci-Fi books sometimes. When I was a student, they were often all that I read. As Iv'e gotten older, though, it's been a struggle to find ones that I really like. Over the great everyone-stay-at-home adventure that was the Spring of 2020, I also got back into audiobooks. Several folks had insisted that I read Cinder by Marissa Meyer over the years, and when I saw it as an option on Hoopla, I finally decided to give it a try-- and I'm glad I did! Cinder is an interesting blend of science fiction and fantasy-- a fairy tale set in a future dystopia with cyborgs and space travel-- with the title character, Lihn Cinder, struggling to make ends meat. As a cyborg (someone whose body has both human and robotic components), Cinder is treated as second class by her family and the world around her, despite her obvious gifts as a mechanic. Through a strange turn of events, Ci...