This month was the beginning of the
Lunar Chronicles [Re]Read Along #TLCReadAlong hosted by BookAddictsGuide.
I was so excited that someone hosted this because I was thinking of reading a
book a month leading up to the release of Winter,
but I am a terrible self-motivator and this is so much more fun. It was also
doubly awesome that I got to read Cinder
this month because we read it for our last book club of the summer. I even made
pumpkin breadlettes for the occasion. The only downside was that Christina and
I only had a week to read it and we were sharing one copy of the book (we loaned out
her copy). We passed the book back and forth the whole week with her sometimes toting
it to work in a biblecase (Hey, it’s a nice copy).
This is my third time reading Cinder by Marissa Meyer so I thought I’d
post some of my favorite things about it.
IKO – You can’t beat Iko. This little android had so much
life in her she’s the best character of the book!
FLIRTING – I absolutely love the flirting between Cinder and
Kai. You know they are attracted to each other but it’s not instalove because while they do like each other they both know there are way too
many obstacles for them to be together. Faster than a slow burn but not quite
instalove. I find them more adorable every time I read the book!
PUMPKIN – I can’t be quite sure that I never noticed it
before and just forgot, but I was so excited when I discovered that Cinder’s
car was an old, orange VW Bug! It’s totally perfect and fits so well as “Cinderella’s
Pumpkin!” I really couldn’t stop talking about it, I loved the visual so much!
Scarlet
is the next book in the [Re]Read Along and I can’t wait! It’s so hard to only
read one book a month instead of all at once, but I think I like it better this
way. It prolongs the enjoyment of the Lunar Chronicles and hopefully I
won’t forget as many details when I finally get to Winter.
