The plague sweeping the globe tends to make the book focused on death. It is also the first novel from author Marissa Meyer there are three more books slated to be in the series. Considering fairy tales are to zombies now what zombies were to vampires five years ago, I can imagine there will be a certain appeal to this book on that fact alone. My biggest complaint was that it seemed to take a while to really understand what a cyborg was. Cinder’s relatively humdrum life of gadgets, gears and grease gets turned upside down when the kingdom’s heartthrob, Prince Kai, brings his personal droid to Cinder to repair. Each day, one cyborg is selected and then taken to the palace research lab, where they are used to test the latest antidote for the cure these cyborgs never come back. In order to try to find a cure for the plague, the kingdom Cinder lives in has instituted a cyborg draft. Another wrench in Cinder’s life (pun intended) is that there is a plague ravaging Earth. Cinder does not remember anything before her surgery, when she was 11. Cyborgs are second-class citizens who have been injured and now have robotic parts to replace the ones they have lost. Cinder’s story does not end there: She’s also a cyborg. She is the best mechanic in town and has a robot-droid for a best friend, as well as a wicked stepmother. Cinder is a 16-year-old girl living in New Beijing. Cinder is a futuristic spin on an old classic: Cinderella.
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