Cinder
Marissa Meyer, 2012
Cinderella as a cyborg mechanic in a crowded future Beijing, where a prince brings her a broken android and the city is quietly afraid.
Marissa Meyer
Marissa Meyer's books move at a steady clip and keep a warm heart under the machinery: young women with unusual skills, big systems that don't want them, and friendships that form while things are going wrong. Start with «Cinder», where a cyborg mechanic in a crowded future Beijing gets a broken android from a prince and a city quietly afraid; «Cress» follows a girl raised alone in a satellite who can see the queen's real plan, if anyone will believe her.
Feels like longing, identity and freedom.
Start with Cinder.
Meyer wrote the first draft of Cinder during National Novel Writing Month; the cyborg Cinderella became her debut novel in 2012.
The song is about the plague. The laughter is entirely real.
A smile tugged at Cinder’s lips. Not so much at the nursery rhyme, a phantom song about pestilence and death that had regained popularity in the past decade. The song itself made her squeamish. But she did love the glares from passersby as the giggling children fell over in their paths. The inconvenience of having to swarm around the writhing bodies stirred grumbles from the shoppers, and Cinder adored the children for it. Books by Marissa Meyer
Cress
Marissa Meyer, 2014
A girl raised alone in a satellite is the only one who can see the queen's real plan — if anyone will believe her.
Winter
Marissa Meyer, 2015
Snow White on a colonised moon: a princess who refuses to use her mind-bending gift, her stepmother's glass court, and the crew plotting a revolution.
Heartless
Marissa Meyer, 2016
The Queen of Hearts was once a girl in love with a court jester—and Wonderland doesn't let anyone keep a soft heart.
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