Monday, October 26, 2015

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer (2013)

What fun with the second of the Lunar Chronicles. We have Scarlet - our Red Riding Hood with her red hoodie, who works on a farm (woods?) with her grandmother, who is missing. She delivers their fresh produce to a restaurant in the town and who does she come across - a street fighter Wolf. I think there was a Hunter in the story too, but not a good guy. After that I can't find too many connections with the original story, but we are in Cinder's post WW4 world with Queen Levana from the Moon threatening to take over the world. I was glad that we continued to follow Cinder too, as we left her in jail, but with some tools that can help her break out. She lands in the cell of Captain/Cadet Thorne (not sure if he has any symbolic importance), but he has a ship that Cinder needs to escape. He's not the brightest, but he gives Cinder an amusing side-kick. Young Emporer Kai is still in the mix, as is Iko, Cinder's android friend/personality. We see Cinder start to learn to use her lunar abilities. Got to remember this is a young adult book, but lots of interesting concepts.

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