Reddit reviews Cinder

Red Rising is a great SF trilogy; it starts out with a definite YA feel, but becomes a more complex story, and I'd argue the second book is better than the first. It has been optioned.

Red Queen is popular, and I'm sure there are studios looking to option the series.


And studios would be stupid to not consider Sarah J Maas' Throne of Glass series.

I also think there is interest in An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir, and Cinder by Marissa Meyer.

I read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close last year when I heard about the movie. I enjoyed the book much more than the movie. Although the movie did capture the essence of the book, the book had much more of an emotional impact on me. It was neat how some of the chapters were written. Still haven't gotten around to reading Everything Is Illuminated from the same author.

I just finished reading Cinder by Marissa Meyer, which I really quite liked. I was really struck by the cover image as soon as I saw it. It's a Young Adult novel, so it's a really easy read (finished it in 3 days, could have been way faster if I'd had the time) but it was still a really fun story. Essentially it's a futuristic dystopian cyborg retelling of the Cinderella fairytale. Cinder is a cyborg that lives in New Beijing. It's been something like 125 years of peace since the end of World War 4 which destroyed most of the major cities. There is also a highly contagious plague that's been ravaging earth for the past decade. In this world, cyborgs are looked down upon so Cinder isn't a valuable person. She's the best mechanic in the city. She meets the prince when he comes to her with a broken Android. He gets to know her a little over the next few days and invites her to the ball. OK, don't want to give too much away. I really liked this book. Of course my friends and co-workers looked at me like I am crazy when I described that it's a futuristic Cinderella story, and complained that everything in YA lit is dystopian now, which will cause us to have a messed up generation of kids!

I've just started reading A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving. I'm not very far yet but I am torn about this book. A co-worker lent it to me last February when I told her that I was doing the challenge for 2011. I kept putting it off because it was long and I wouldn't have been able to get through it in a week. Well now that I am going at my own pace, I've decided it's time to actually read it and get it back to her, since I've had it for over a year! I really liked the writing style right away. I believe this will be the first Irving novel I've actually read. I liked how much depth there is to the characters and the world in just a couple of pages. However, the whole God and religion thing that this story is based around, I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to stomach it for the entire book. I'm not religious and so far it's been pretty heavy-handed. I know the whole point of the book is that Owen Meany thinks he's a messenger from God but I'm just not sure I'm going to be able to stand reading it, since it kind of feels that it's taking itself seriously rather than it simply being a plot device. My co-worker really wants me to read it, she kept saying that she thought I would really enjoy it, so I'll give it a shot this week and see how I do with it.