Second time through! This is a collection of short stories to fill in the backstory of each of the main characters. They were all good, though this time through I just re-listened to the last two short stories: "The Mechanic," a retelling of Cinder and Kai's first meeting from Kai's perspective ...
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I loved the entire series, and raced through it the second time. The action is non-stop! On the plus side: like any good fairy tale, this one ends with a "happily ever after." And yet it doesn't seem too perfect--there are still casualties, and even the main characters don't all escape unscathed. ...
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I don't know if I liked Cinder or Cress (the book) better... I definitely like Cress and Thorne second best (next to Cinder and Kai) of the couples in the Lunar Chronicles, though! Cress is the only one of the four female heroines in the series whose name doesn't seem to directly relate to her ...
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I liked this much better the second time! That might be because it benefitted from the context of all the rest of the books in the Lunar Chronicles, which I LOVE. My favorite part of this book were still the scenes involving Cinder, her new partner-in-crime Carswell Thorne (who is SUCH a fantastic ...
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It's my second time through the Lunar Chronicles, and I'm excited to re-experience it! This time I'm listening more like an author than a reader, considering each of Marissa Meyer's choices. I think it's ingenious that she interwove fairy tales into what was otherwise a wholly original plot in and ...
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It's only been a few years since the last time I read "Emma," but I couldn't resist this Audible dramatization, narrated by Emma Thompson and performed with a semi-full cast (though I think there were only two others involved: another man and woman performed all the male and female characters). It ...
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This book reminds me of Jane Austen somehow, even though it's set in England and Europe during WWII. It's action-packed, but it's still primarily relational, creating a microcosm world all its own that could not have existed under any other circumstances. It's a bit like college, but with much ...
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This is the second book I've read by Marc Levy (the first was PS From Paris), and it probably won't be the last! I guess I'd call the genre romance, but that's only for lack of a better category. Maybe literary fiction is closer, because romance is certainly not the main focus throughout. The ...
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I didn't love this one for the same reasons why I didn't much love "Renegades"-- which still makes me sad, because I've been so impressed with everything else Marissa Meyer has written. My biggest issue is with Nova's conflict, which is pretty core to the story. Her parents and her baby sister ...
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This book was primarily upsetting, quite frankly. It was very well written and engaging, and I loved (in some ways) the fact that it was as historically accurate as a "novel" could be, drawn from Patsy Jefferson's correspondences and those letters she curated of her father's. But my big takeaway was ...
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