Cyborgs are treated as second class citizens, so Cinder hides her identity from Kai. While working as a mechanic at the marketplace, she meets the son of the Emperor, Prince Kai, who asks her to fix Nainsi, his personal android. As a cyborg, Cinder is discriminated against and often looked down upon by others, despite building up a reputation as the best mechanic in New Beijing. Cinder is under the guardianship of her cruel adopted mother, Linh Adri, along with her two stepsisters, Linh Pearl and Linh Peony, the latter of which treats her as a close friend. Letumosis, a fatal disease started by the Lunars and nicknamed the "Blue Fever", or "The Plague", is raging throughout the world and a cure is unknown. Set in the futuristic city of New Beijing, when the countries of the world have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the Moon has been colonized, Asia is now an emperor-ruled country known as the Eastern Commonwealth. Cinder was selected as one of IndieBound's Kids' Next List for winter 2012.
The story is loosely based on the classic fairytale Cinderella. It is the first book in The Lunar Chronicles and is followed by Scarlet. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĬinder is the 2012 debut young adult science fiction novel of American author Marissa Meyer, published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends.
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