Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Post date: Dec 15, 2015 3:56:14 PM

Cinderella meets science fiction? This fairy tale retelling is set in post-World War IV China where people around the world are dying from the incurable and contagious disease letumosis, and the Lunar queen wants to take over control of the Earth. China has become a monarchy and Prince Kai will have the fate of the world his hand. Every year a royal ball is held and all of China's teenage girls are invited to meet the Prince.

Linh Cinder is a gifted teenage mechanic who has to support her selfish stepmother and two stepsisters after her stepfather died of the disease. She was told that she and her parents were in a horrible hovercraft accident when she was eleven. Her parents were killed in the accident. Cinder was so badly injured that she had to have multiple surgeries to replace some of her human body parts with cyborg body parts. What she will find out is that she is not who she told she was and the fate of the planet and Prince Kai will rest in her hands.