The Lunar Chronicles
by Colleen Guzman
So we finally received the fourth book and what I thought was the final book in The Lunar Chronicles series. I read the book slowly, savoring every moment before I had to let the characters go forever. I can't express how much I loved this book series, how creative it is, how it takes those tales of smitten princesses and gives them a modern twist. In this post I am simply going to give you a short synopsis of each book in hopes that you will pick it up and read it too.


Next we move into space to a far away maiden who is being held captive and made to work for evil, even though she is unaware. Cress is being held captive in a satellite by the evil queen's top minion who loves her in a strange way. In Cress we find our beloved Rapunzel, so sheltered from the world even though she has watched the world through the monitor feed on board her home, she has never left and so she has never been able to truly explore the world or have any human interaction. When she does finally gain some human interaction she struggles with the reality of it all and she trips over herself and often hides within herself. Her love interest is a dashing, yet devious and downright criminal captain who inadvertently endears himself to her even though he himself feels he has no redeemable qualities.
Finally we move to the end of our saga. The princesses and their princes have all come together and they are prepared to thwart the evil queen, but the task will not be so easy. They must push through a series of incredible maneuvers and try to outwit the queen at her own mad game. In the end we meet princess Winter who is kind and loving to all people and especially to animals. As is expected we have finally met our Snow White. This poor snow White however is so kind and gentle that she ends up being quite broken, although perhaps not as broken as she would seem. We hope that she will become less broken, that she will rise up and find her own strength and that she herself will overthrow the evil queen who has tormented her for her entire life. Your stomach is in knots each time they try a section of their plan because nothing can go right. You scream at them to make better choices to do things differently, to just think ahead, be cautious and daring and please just listen to you. In the end, well in the end is something that you have to find out for yourself. In the end you will have to say goodbye to these characters you have fallen so in love with and that you hold so dear. Perhaps in the end they will all live happily ever after.

I grabbed these character renditions from the internet because they spoke to me the most and seemed to really almost get the characters the way I saw them in my mind. If you love fairy tales you will love these books and it looks like she is writing more so I will surely be reading more. Good job Marissa Meyer, thanks for the entertainment.
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