Cinder -- reviewed by Shennah Jacob

I read the book Cinder, by Marissa Meyer. It’s set in the future when the world has united after the fourth world war. Linh Cinder is an adopted cyborg; she can’t recall anything before she was adopted at age 11. She has been told she got into a hover accident and her biological parents died. This is suspicious because the hovers are too advanced to get into an accident. The man who adopted her had died as well and now Cinder is left with her step mother. Cinder’s younger step sister comes in contact with the plague going around and is only expected to live a few days. The step mother volunteers Cinder to test the latest antidote for the plague, she turns out to be fully immune to the disease so she may go home.
The author writes the book as if there’s a narrator but knows Cinder’s thoughts. Then it is switched so the narrator is telling Prince Kai’s thoughts. A lot of the story is similar to Cinderella. I like the book except for when the author switches views because it doesn’t seem significant or needed. Other than that I thought the book was cleverly written and keeps you interested.