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Scarlet<\/strong><\/em>
\nby Marissa Meyer<\/p>\n

Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles<\/b>. She\u2019s trying to break out of prison\u2014even though if she succeeds, she\u2019ll be the Commonwealth\u2019s most wanted fugitive. <\/em><\/p>\n

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit\u2019s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn\u2019t know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother\u2019s whereabouts, she is loath to trust\u00a0this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As\u00a0Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Review:
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I reached home two days after finishing Cinder<\/i>, and was only home for a few hours. (I feel like such a globetrotter this year, and was homesick beyond belief, but books have been helping.)<\/i> But I had to switch out the books in my bag. Scarlet<\/i> was the first thing to be put in. I finished half the novel on my flight out, and despite how busy we were the next day, I found the time to finish the book in the afternoon. That is how much Marissa Meyer\u2019s world has dragged me into it\u2019s depths.<\/p>\n

Based on Little Red Riding Hood<\/i>, Scarlet<\/i> sees Scarlet Benoit, an intelligent and resourceful young woman (with some anger issues that just make her all the more intriguing) diving into the depths of the unknown conspiracies around her to try and save her grandmother from a fate she does not know. Helping her is the aptly named Wolf, who is mysterious and dangerous and very, very easy to fall in love with. And I\u2019m saying that as a reader, not for Scarlet, but for myself.<\/p>\n

And then on the other side, we have Cinder trying to escape her own fate. The introduction of the handsome scoundrel Thorne was a stroke of genius on the author\u2019s part because he is annoying and flirty, but still sweet and sometimes even smart. His banter with Cinder is perfection.<\/p>\n

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The romance elements of the novels are not thrown at the reader, which I love. It is there, obvious but not cloying. The fact that the novel does not abandon the Cinder\/Kai story, but rather lets it evolve as well, individually, is done well. All the individual character arcs are tied together slowly but surely, building up to further storylines in the next couple of novels. The mystery surrounding Wolf builds up throughout the novel and even all the anticipation I had that there was more to Wolf than what we knew –<\/p>\n

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– I did not see what the truth was actually coming. Nothing could have prepared me for that.<\/p>\n

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Kai\u2019s position in the world makes my heart hurt. They\u2019ve all got so much pressure and not enough information to make educated decisions, and so they go with what they feel is right, and it just hurts. (Some of his chapters just make me feel so sad for him because he\u2019s caught in such a tough place and he\u2019s alone and lost and despite everything, he still wants Cinder to be okay, he still cares for her despite thinking she betrayed him, it\u2019s a wonderfully written relationship.)<\/p>\n

The entire world has so much to give and the author\u2019s decision to take each story and character into various places instead of keeping them in one makes the world so much more rich. I do not know how the people who have been reading this since the beginning take the waiting in between each novels coming out for the next.<\/p>\n

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Scarlet by Marissa Meyer Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She\u2019s trying to break out of prison\u2014even though if she succeeds, she\u2019ll be the Commonwealth\u2019s most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit\u2019s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn\u2019t know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother\u2019s whereabouts, she is loath to trust\u00a0this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As\u00a0Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner. Review:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,9,6,46,44],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-marissa-meyer","tag-older-reviews","tag-reviews","tag-scarlet","tag-the-lunar-chronicles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/araopenpages.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}