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The Lunar Chronicles · Book 1

Cinder

by Marissa Meyer

Published
3 January 2012
Pages
416
ISBN-13
9781250851031
Type
novel

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About this book

Cinder opens The Lunar Chronicles on January 3, 2012, introducing Linh Cinder, a gifted mechanic in New Beijing who's also a cyborg -- and therefore second-class property under Commonwealth law. When Prince Kai brings her his broken android and a deadly plague sweeps the city, Cinder is pulled into a plot involving the ruthless Lunar Queen Levana. It runs 416 pages, the first of Marissa Meyer's four fairy-tale-with-a-science-fiction-twist heroines.

Its place in The Lunar Chronicles

Cinder is book 1 in the The Lunar Chronicles series. It is followed by Scarlet. See the full The Lunar Chronicles reading order.

Linh Cinder is a gifted mechanic in New Beijing — and a cyborg, which under Commonwealth law makes her second-class property, not a citizen. When Prince Kai brings her his broken android, and a deadly plague sweeps the city, Cinder gets pulled into a plot involving the ruthless Lunar Queen Levana, who rules a colony of humans with the power to manipulate minds and wants Kai's throne through a forced marriage. Each subsequent book in the quartet adds a new fairy-tale heroine with a science-fiction twist and folds…

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