Cinder is dismayed because she is insecure. Kai is surprised to learn that the famous mechanic is a teenage girl, and he flirts with her. He is looking for the legendary mechanic to repair his android Nainsi, which has mysteriously stopped working. He is in disguise, but she recognizes him. While waiting, Cinder is approached by Prince Kai, son of the emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth. Working in her booth at the market, Cinder removes the mechanical foot that her human body has outgrown and waits on her android, Iko, to bring her a new, larger one. The few people who know that she is a cyborg shun her. Despite her success, Cinder avoids telling people that she is a cyborg, as cyborgs are treated poorly. After his death, her stepmother, Adri, treats her cruelly and forces her to work to support the entire family.Ĭinder becomes a successful mechanic in the city of New Beijing, 126 years after the end of World War IV. Told that she was orphaned by the same accident that injured her, she is taken in by an inventor, Linh Garan. Parts of Cinder’s natural body have been replaced with mechanical ones, and she has a computer interface in her brain. With high-stakes action and a smart, resourceful heroine, Cinder is a Cinderella retelling that is at once classic and strikingly original.Linh Cinder is a teenage girl who, as a result of an accident at a very young age, is now a cyborg. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world's future.
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. She's a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister's illness. No one knows that Earth's fate hinges on one girl.Ĭinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.
From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. "Prince Charming among the cyborgs." - The Wall Street Journal a cross between Cinderella, Terminator, and Star Wars." - Entertainment Weekly "An interesting mash up of fairy tales and science fiction. The first book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you’ve never seen it before, now with new cover art! See where the futuristic YA fairytale saga all began, with the tale of a teenage cyborg who must fight for Earth's survival against villains from outer space.
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