Stars Above

A Lunar Chronicles Collection

By: Marissa Meyer

Narrated by: Rebecca Soler

Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins

Publisher's summary

"Soler's narration fits the tone of each story and provides unique voices for each character, including a breathy, high-pitched voice for Winter and a harder, cruel voice for Mistress Sybil." - AudioFile Magazine

The #1 New York Times Best-selling Series!

The enchantment continues....

The universe of the Lunar Chronicles holds stories - and secrets - that are wondrous, vicious, and romantic. How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?

With six stories - two of which have never before been published - and an exclusive never-before-heard excerpt from Marissa Meyer's novel, Heartless, about the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland, Stars Above is the essential audiobook for fans of the best-selling and beloved Lunar Chronicles.

©2016 Rampion Books, Inc (P)2016 Macmillan Audio

Perfect

I loved hearing their stories and the connections that brought them all together. The end was happy and satisfying.

If you like the main books you want to hear this!

Character development was fantastic 👏 Loved the new characters and getting to see some more of the OG characters back story and futures. Great tie in that left me very satisfied. Also 12 out of 10 narration

Performance issues

I have loved all of the books in this series. I have a problem with the narration of this last book. It sounds like Rebecca has a head cold, her voice is nasal. Plus parts of the book sound like they were recorded later and inserted it. It's distraction.

Bonus stories to fix a Lunar craving!

Awesome background stories for the Lunar Chronicles, but the narration is off on this book. I love this narrator, but I think they had a cold during the recording (it happens and is absolutely forgivable). However, the editing/splicing on the re-recorded segments was horrible and made the book jumpy.

Love the narrator for the Lunar series, but ...

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

I have loved the narrator for the series, but it sounds like she had a cold when they recorded this book... it is a bit distracting to me.

wonderful story

i have very much enjoyed this series, the characters are fun and lively. the story line is exciting and makes you want more. So sad it is over, but the ending was wonderful

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the narrator sounds like she has a cold through a lot of it? it's hard not to notice and she probably could have used a decongestant before recording or something.

Fantastic

Loved every little story in this book it explained a lot of the story that wasn't one in the Lunar Chronicals. plus the last story was amazing!

Fairytale ending, utterly delightful!

Love, love, love this addition! Always ready to read more about my friends whom I miss now that the series is over.

The stories here are cutting-room-floor deleted scenes from Cinder, Scarlett, and Cress. Some people may be annoyed that there is no "advancement" to the stories; we already know these little events in their lives. (Everybody loves watching deleted scenes from movies.) These are the scenes that are the basis of the fairy tales: Red Riding Hood's journey to her grandmother's house, the witch locking Rapunzel in the tower, and the wicked stepmother thrusting Cinderella into the cold kitchen and making her work. These were glossed over in the Chronicles; in this book we get the details: Thorne's episode with the math whiz Falo girl, Cress being imprisoned in the satellite, and Scarlett leaving her lay-about father and traveling by herself to live with her grand-mère, then overhearing the conversation with Lin Garren regarding the princess. Sure, the stories are repetitive since we know what happened from the series books. Sure, you could be annoyed that there is nothing new. But it was all enjoyable and pleasing to revisit. Even when it gets around to Kai's first trip to the fix-it shop in the marketplace, and it sounds just like the beginning of Cinder, we get it from his side, and it is delightful all over again. There are smiles and chuckles all the way through, as we go with our friends to the last, inevitable scene of every fairy tale. And again, as throughout the whole series, it is totally modern, totally believable, not childish or simplistic as most fairy tales are.

And, AND! There is a completely new story in the middle! It really has nothing to do with anything, but it shows M.M's ability to take a tale and make it futuristic and grown-up.

You don't need to check the cover to verify the narrator even though it does not sound like Rebecca Soler at first. Good news is it IS R.S. and she gets over the stuffy head and laryngitis she has at the beginning of the book, and then sounds like herself again. As the hyper-critical listener that I am, I noticed several misplaced emphases that would have delivered better if corrected, but most people won't notice. And her Chinese pronunciation has degraded from the Chronicles readings, but then most readers don't speak Chinese, so, again, they won't notice (I do and I did.) Despite all that, she delivers most of the conversational lines flawlessly, adding to the humor and pathos. I can't imagine anyone else reading these stories.

amazingly creative

I adore this story line and LOVE the Author.... I would most definitely recommend this series to anyone who likes gritty magical characters that are seeded in dystopian societies. . not the fluffy sparkle fairytale or boring run of the mill story of future societies.... it's different not just another way to tell the story of hunger games