It shouldn’t work in theory but it definitely does. AND Cinderella is a total badass and even a mechanic. I mean it’s sci-fi, a retelling, sorta steampunk-ish, and even dystopian. In retrospect, it still astounds me that a book with so many various genres still managed to work as well as it did. And then I read Glitches, the short story prequel to Cinder and it convinced me to finally pick it up. That blurb had me skeptical for years, avoiding this book and insisting it wasn’t going to be for me. “ A sci-fi retelling of Cinderella as a cyborg“. She inevitably stumbles upon information about her past that she had been unable to remember and it manages to turn her entire life upside down.

When her sister becomes sick and Cinder is blamed, her mother volunteers her for a medical testing group for cyborgs where the survival rate is non-existent. Cinder became a cyborg at an early age after surviving a car crash that killed both her parents and now works as a mechanic to earn money for her self-absorbed and hateful adoptive mother. In New Beijing, humans, androids, and cyborgs live amongst each other in a world ravaged by a plague called letumosis. “Even in the Future the Story Begins with Once Upon a Time” Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

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. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. Genres: Dystopian/Post-Apocalyptic, Fairy-Tales/Retellings, RomanceĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository Published by Feiwel & Friends on January 3rd 2012

Glitches by marissa meyer