• Cinder

  • Book One of the Lunar Chronicles
  • By: Marissa Meyer
  • Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
  • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (14,163 ratings)

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Cinder

By: Marissa Meyer
Narrated by: Rebecca Soler
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Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl....

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

©2012 Marissa Meyer (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

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Great story and the star of the show is the narrater: what a performance!
That is the best reading and delivering of characters I've heard on Audible

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The best adaptation of Cinderella I have ever read!

This series is captivating and fresh. A new spin on an old story it has me waiting in anticipation for the next one. I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an appreciation for great writing and characters that you will fall in love with.

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Fun, original, unexpected

Lots of people have tried to modernize and rewrite the fairytales we all know about the Regular person who discovers they are a princess. This isn’t that. You will figure out who the characters are, but you won’t see their story coming.

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~ Lovely ~

I’m not generally a fan of re-written fairy tales, as they seem more cliche than creative. Yet this author has blown me away! A cyborg cinderella..?!? It’s amazing. Please read it, and enjoy!

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Excellent

I started this for my 9 year old daughter and quickly got hooked. I'm now half way through Cress and in love with the characters, writing, and story.

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Re-read series every year! Highly recommend!

This is by far one of my favorite series. The story enraptures me the whole time and the audio performance is the best I’ve heard on audible!

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One of the Good Ones

No joke, this series has me by a chokehold. Kai and Cinder’s relationship dynamic and development is absolutely golden. Perfect way to establish a series.

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A bit of a slow start but then….

The beginning chapters ramped up slowly, but once the momentum kicked in, the story went from a snowball to an avalanche!

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Exciting and interesting

Cinder is amazing! Riveting! Rebecca Solar makes it even better. So we’ll written and performed!

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A Wicked Good Read

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Both my wife and I listened to Meyer's imaginative reconstruction of Cinderella and were amazed by the richness of the future world she wraps the story in. It doesn't come off as a rehash of the fairy tale; instead the characters have more depth and the world they inhabit is a clever mix of familiar and fantastical (I'm ready for my hover, thank you). I do wish the book hadn't ended with as big a cliff-hanger as it did, or that we'll have to wait another 9 months for book two in the series, but if it holds up as well as her first outing, it should be a heck of a ride! Looking forward to more from this promising author.

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