Cress by Marissa Meyer

lit selfie cressFirst there was Cinder, the Lunar cyborg who risked her life to save her prince.  Then there was Scarlet, the outspoken pilot who joined forces with a rebel wolf operative to find her grandmother.  Now there is Cress, a brilliant hacker trapped in a satellite orbiting Earth.  Marissa Meyer gives old fairy tales a sci-fi update in The Lunar Chronicles, and the third installment, Cress, is my favorite so far.

Cinder, Scarlet, Thorne and Wolf are on the run, hiding in their stolen Rampion.  What they don’t know is that Cress has been shielding them by hacking into the surveillance satellites and turning them the other way.  When Cress finally makes contact with them, they set off to rescue her from her lonely satellite.  When the rescue goes horribly wrong, they are separated.  Can they find each other again in time to stop Queen Levana from marrying Prince Kai?

I loved seeing how the separate storylines converge and how different characters have to learn to work together.  Once Scarlet is wrenched from Wolf, he and Cinder must learn to work together despite his changed genetic makeup.  They reunite with Dr. Erland, but Cinder is still not sure how much they should trust him even though he has information that is key to their success.

Cress and Thorne must make their way across the desert, and they have earned a favorite place in my heart.  Thorne is still a charming rake, but he just might have found a reason to care for some one other than himself.  As he and Cress struggled over dune and dune, I fell for him every bit as much as Cress did.  Cress believes that she is worthless as a shell, but she discovers strengths she didn’t know she had.  Earth is quite a bit to take in when your only glimpse has been through a satellite window or newsfeeds.  I gasped along with her at every new revelation–and there are many surprises in these pages.

We even see a glimpse of Winter, the star of the fourth and final book.  Since each book in this series has gotten better and better, I can’t wait to read it.  Write fast, Marissa!

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