Lunar Chronicles: Scarlet (Series #02) (Hardcover)

from pollywannabook

Review courtesy of All Things Urban Fantasy Continuing with her Star Wars meets fairy tale mashup, Marissa Meyer delivers a strong sequel to CINDER in SCARLET, the second book in the Lunar Chronicles series. Cinder, our cyborg Cinderella turned alien royalty, is still on the run from the Lunar Qu...

from bookandsword

I know that Scarlet was supposed to be about Scarlet and her story, but Thorne and Cinder's dorky friendship made this book! I loved Cinder> in this book and I have a feeling that she will come even further in her character development in the next two books. "Once, people had looked at her with r...

from LisaMaria_C

This is the second book in the Lunar Chronicles, and is definitely no standalone, so if you haven't already, definitely read Cinder first. The conceit of the series is that they're based on fairy tales, the first "Cinderella" and this one is "Little Red Riding Hood." But Meyer has managed so far ...

from zot79

Another fun 'retelling' of a fairy tale in a sci-fi future. It's all here: red riding hood (Scarlet), her grandma, the wolf (of sorts), plus a bunch more thrown in because the simple RRH story would not fill a novel. But once again, what could have been a five-star book for me has to get knocked ...

from jnwelch

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer features the return of Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, in the second installment of the Lunar Chronicles. She made quite a spectacle at the ball trying to warn Prince Kai about the Lunar Queen's schemes, and finds herself needing now to break out of prison. This book introdu...