Review: Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Title: Scarlet
Author: Marissa Meyer
Series: Lunar Chronicles #2
Rating: 5/5 Stars
452 pages
Published February 5th 2013 by Feiwel & Friends
Bought
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I was quite hesitant to read Scarlet – I loved Cinder so much that I was afraid that Scarlet wouldn’t be able to live up to it. Now that I’m done with the book, I have a different reason for wanting not having read it. The book was so awesome that waiting for Cress is just too much!
After the revelations of the ending in Cinder, the quest to find out more about Cinder’s past continues. The story follows both Cinder and the title character Scarlet in their personal missions. Cinder is escaping prison where she also meets the very charming captain. Scarlet is following leads for her missing grandmother, since the police has deemed her disappearance a suicide.
Sheesh, does Scarlet have a temper! She’s quite different from the more timid and even-natured Cinder. I think it really speaks for Meyer’s writing that she can make two such different characters believable. I enjoyed reading from Scarlet’s point of view, mainly because the main plot points of the book are in her parts. Cinder is still present in the book, but her story mainly takes the back seat.
As the point of view switches between the characters throughout the book, I know some readers have complained about the story losing its velocity. I personally didn’t mind this, since I actually like stories that are told by different narrators, and Meyer did a wonderful job keeping the voices distinct.
I loved the way the overall storyline keeps unfolding and is getting more depth. The tensions between earth and the moon reach a high point, and the Queen is coming ever closer to open war against the earthlings. It pains me to think I will have to wait two more years until I know how this story ends.
Scarlet is a worthy sequel to Cinder, and one I would recommend to well, nearly anybody. These are books that I will continue to reread again and again.
The fates of Cinder and Scarlet collide as a Lunar threat spreads across the Earth…
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 (5/5 Stars)
- Review: A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest (2.5/5 Stars)
- Review: The Peculiar by Stefan Bachmann (4/5 Stars)
- Review: Broken by E.A. Rought (2/5 Stars)
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