The Lunar Chronicles · Book 3
Cress
- Published
- 4 February 2014
- Pages
- 562
- ISBN-13
- 9780545848176
- Type
- novel
About this book
Cress, released February 4, 2014, brings in the series' Rapunzel figure -- a brilliant hacker trapped alone on a satellite who's never touched the ground -- as Meyer's braided fairy-tale plot keeps escalating toward full rebellion against Lunar tyranny. It runs 562 pages.
Its place in The Lunar Chronicles
Cress is book 3 in the The Lunar Chronicles series. It follows Scarlet. It is followed by Fairest. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312642976
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780141340159
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250007223