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Title | Cinder
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | Michael O
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Publisher | Square Fish - 2013
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First Printing | Feiwell & Friends - 2012
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Title | Scarlet
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | Michael O
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Publisher | Feiwell & Friends - 2015
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First Printing | 2013
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Title | Cress
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | Michael O
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Publisher | Scholastic - 2015
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First Printing | Feiwell & Friends - 2014
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Title | Fairest
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | Heiko Klug & Vin Tew
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Publisher | Square Fish - 2016
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First Printing | Feiwell & Friends - 2015
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Title | Winter
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | Michael O
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Publisher | Feiwell & Friends - 2015
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First Printing | Feiwell & Friends - 2015
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Title | Stars Above
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | Tomer Hanuka
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Publisher | Square Fish - 2017
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First Printing | Feiwell & Friends - 2016
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Title | COVID-128
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Cover Art | ---
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Publisher | Fierce Reads - 2020
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First Printing | Fierce Reads - 2020
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Title | Wire and Nerve
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Illustrated By | Doug Holgate
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Publisher | Feiwel and Friends - 2017
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First Printing | Feiwel and Friends - 2017
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Title | Gone Rogue
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Author | Marissa Meyer
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Illustrated By | Stephen Gilpin
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Publisher | Feiwel and Friends - 2018
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First Printing | Feiwel and Friends - 2018
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Category | Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Cinder, Scarlet, Wolf, Cress, Carswell Thorne, Winter, Levana, Emperor Kaito, Jacin Iko
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Main Elements | Cyborgs
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Website | Marissa Meyer
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 Cinder
Even in the future, the story begins with Once Upon a Time...
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl...
Sixteen-year-old Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past and is reviled by her stepmother. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai's, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future. Because there is something unusual about Cinder, something that others would kill for.
Scarlet
Even in the future, beware of the big, bad wolf...
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She is trying to break out of prison - even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.
Cress
In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.
Their best hope likes with Cress, a girl imprisoned in a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress and excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.
Fairest
Mirror, mirror, on the wall.
Who is the Fairest of them all?
Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her "glamour" to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story - a story that has never been told...until now.
Winter
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her childhood friend, the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.
Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to mis this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's nationally bestselling Lunar Chronicles series.
Stars Above
The enchantment continues...
The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?
With nine stories - five of which have never before been published - and a special bonus excerpt from Marissa Meyer's #1 New York Times-bestselling novel, Hearless, about the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Stars Above is essential for fans of the beloved Lunar Chronicles.
- The Keeper
- Glitches
- The Queen's Army
- Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky
- After Sunshine Passes Away
- The Princess and the Guard
- The Little Android
- The Mechanic
- Something Old, Something New
COVID-128
"Surprise! I wrote a new Lunar Chronicles short story, inspired by the prompt from Fierce Reads asking what our characters would be doing during a time of social distancing. It was really fun for me to hang out with these characters again for a little while, and I hope you'll enjoy it!"
Wires and Nerve
When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the series.
Gone Rogue
Iko – an audacious android and best friend to the Lunar Queen Cinder – has been tasked with hunting down Alpha Lysander Steele, the leader of a rogue band of bioengineered wolf-soldiers who threaten to undo the tenuous peace agreement between Earth and Luna. Unless Cinder can reverse the mutations that were forced on them years before, Steele and his soldiers plan to satisfy their monstrous appetites with a massacre of the innocent people of Earth.
And to show he’s serious, Steele is taking hostages.
Cinder and Kai, Scarlet and Wolf, Cress and Thorne, and Winter and Jacin all feature in this epic new battle. But it is Iko who must face her deepest fears when she uncovers the truth about her own unusual programming.
An interesting twist on some old fairy tales. Set in the distance future, Meyer based her characters on Snow White and Rapunzel and others, but instead of magic, you have cyborgs and androids, spaceships and moon colonies. Now of course she couldn't follow the plots word for word, but she did a very nice job of weaving in the key points of each tale, from Rapunzel (Cress) needing to be rescued from a tower (satelite), to Cinderella (Cinder) losing a shoe (foot, don't worry, its a cyborg foot). Evil stepmothers and sisters abound, as do dashing princes (well, an emperor and a rogue and a palace guard).
The tale starts in New Beijing, a very appropriate place to set the tale of Cinder as that tale can be traced back to China. Just as Scarlet's little red riding hood (sorry, hoodie) is set in France, and of course there's a Lunar colony as well, set under domes with the Earth gracing the sky. The science fiction worldbuilding overall was quite good, well not sure I'm convinced about the Lunar Gift without a little magic, but everything else works in an SFn setting and that little bit of pseudo-magic just reminds us of the origins of these stories that had talking wolves and evil sorceresses.
I was drawn into each of the books, with quick moving plots and strong heroines (the guys are interesting too), in fact quite a variety of personalities, including the one that angsts over not being good enough for her guy, but here, it was the right choice, what with Cress being naive and innocent and Thorne this dashing rogue who flirts with anything remotely female, even if she's not human. However by the time I got to the last book, I found myself having to slog my way through it, it's the biggest one and maybe suffered from being a little too long, though I kind of enjoyed how everyone got split up and then back together then split up again. I found myself oddly enjoying the challenge of trying to keep track of where everyone was.
The short novel Fairest, and the short stories fill in some of the gaps, and also allow us to explore a few more tales such as The Little Mermaid. And then there's COVID-128, a fun tale about what would the characters of the Lunar Chronicles be doing if there was yet another lockdown in the future. Which was kind of fitting, seeing as there was a plague happening in the original story, but nobody thought to wear masks or social distance or shut down large gathering, looking back the characters were like huh...might have saved some lives if we'd done that. But it was tongue in cheek as well, with the different characters responding in different ways to allay the boredom, like becoming a binge-watcher or starting a podcast. It is available for free on Fierce Reads
May 2023
Wires and Nerve - Know what, I think I enjoyed these two books more than I did the original series. Set afterwards we get to witness the cleanup after the war, which authors rarely bother about. But it wasn't just that, it was fun seeing the characters drawn on the page, and the humour, if anything, was even more fun than it was in the series. Especially when the artwork could tell the story, like a glance between two characters, sometimes a picture really does say a thousand words. And all the awkward romances, which are so much better with the facial expression visible. Too bad these were library books!
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