Series Synopsis - Marissa Meyer

Marissa Mayer

The Lunar Chronicles
In a futuristic world, the people of Lunar (the moon) are ruled by an extremely cruel and horrible woman, Queen Levana.  She wants to take over Earth.  Years before, she murdered her niece, the Princess Selene, who was supposed to become the next ruler.  However, the niece did not die.  She came very close, but she is alive and hasn't a clue who she really is.  She lives on Earth with little or no memory of her past, being raised as a more-or-less servant with a "wicked stepmother" and two stepsisters.....

The entire series is based loosely on fairy tales.  It's fun to notice the similarities.

1 - Cinder (2012) Based on Cinderella. Cinder is being raised by a guardian who despises her in New Beijing.  She is part cyborg - and hated by anyone who knows it.  She is an excellent mechanic and because of this meets handsome Prince Kai who has just become king. Sparks fly. (Literally.....)  Cinder discovers who she REALLY is and then has to run for her life.

2 - Scarlet (2013) Based on Little Red Riding Hood. Although some of the book keeps taking us back to Cinder and her plight, we now meet Scarlet, whose grandmother has been kidnapped.  Scarlet is distraught and in her quest to find her meets a handsome young fighter named Wolf who is not who or what he says he is. The setting goes from the French countryside to Paris.  At the end of the story, Scarlet and Wolf join up with Cinder....

3 - Cress - Currently reading

4 -Winter - not yet published

5 - Fairest

She has also written a number of short stories, all based on fairy tales, and all taking place within the setting of the Lunar Chronicles.

Glitches (prequel to Cinder)
The Queen's Army (prequel to Scarlet)
The Little Android (Based on the Little Mermaid)

Marissa Meyer lives in Spokane, Washington with her husband and three cats.  She was born in 1984.

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