Review: WINTER by Marissa Meyer

TITLE: Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, Book 4)

AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED:  November 10, 2015 - Feiwel & Friends
MY RATING: 4
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SYNOPSIS:

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Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.

Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.

Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?

Review: FAIREST by Marissa Meyer

TITLE: Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles-Prequel Novella)

AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED: January 27, 2015 - Feiwel & Friends
MY RATING: 3

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SYNOPSIS: 

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In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.

Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?

Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told . . . until now.

Review: CRESS by Marissa Meyer

TITLE: Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, Book 3)

AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED:  February 4, 2014 Feiwel & Friends
MY RATING: 5
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SYNOPSIS:

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In the third installment of the Lunar chronicles, Cress, having risked everything to warn Cinder of Queen Levana's evil plan, has a slight problem. She's been imprisoned on a satellite since childhood and has only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress a great hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice. 

When a daring rescue of Cress involving Cinder, Captain Thorne, Scarlet, and Wolf goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes as a high price. Meanwhile, Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.

Review: SCARLET by Marissa Meyer

TITLE: Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, Book 2)

AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED:  February 5, 2013 by Feiwel & Friends
MY SOURCE: Books-A-Million
MY RATING: 5
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SYNOPSIS:

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Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive. 

Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.

Review: CINDER by Marissa Meyer

TITLE: Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, Book 1)

AUTHOR: Marissa Meyer
AUTHOR WEBSITE: www.MarissaMeyer.com
GENRE: Young Adult, Fantacy, Sci-Fi, Romance
PUBLISHED:  January 3rd 2012 by Feiwel & Friends
MY RATING: 5
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SYNOPSIS: 

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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.

Raising Royalty: Mission to Raise GREAT Women

I am on a mission to raise great women. I have 4 girls and have many estrogen-filled years ahead of us. Woohoo! My oldest has just made the leap into her teens. We had been looking forward to this birthday for a while now. (She and I, and her daddy.) I am looking forward to seeing what kind of women we can mold in each of our daughters into. So what I needed was a plan. I love a good plan, a general guideline to which we can set our feet and reach our goal.

Raising Royalty: Taming the Reaction Monster

After spending years being a reactive person, I chose to take charge of my life and my behavior and tame the Reaction Monster inside me. Sadly, my children had seen and mimicked my reactive behavior. If there is one thing I’ve learned while parenting, is that if you don’t want your kids to do it… You should stop doing it FIRST.

Secrets of the Supernatural: Name That Demon

I won’t point out all the “wrong” ways to do deliverance; I’ll just explain what we’ve found to be effective in our deliverance ministry.

We start with two important questions:

1. Are there demons present?
2. If yes, what is the name of the chief and ruling spirit?

The demonic realm operates in a hierarchy. Basically, one demon is always in charge, calling the shots, running the demonized show.