Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer

Title: Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3)
Author: Marissa Meyer
Release date: February 4, 2014
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Pages: 560
Source: ALA
Reading level: YA

Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard.

In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.

Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker—unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can.

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The Lunar Chronicles only continues to improve. I honestly thought I couldn’t love the series any more than I did after reading Cinder but I was wrong. Cress is the best book in the series so far and I believe that Winter will be even better.

Marissa Meyer continues to amaze me with her stories. Everything seems separate and yet it somehow all ties together perfectly in the end. That became even more apparent in Cress. Every character, every storyline, every last plot point came together in this book to make for one amazingly convoluted story. No matter how small the detail, it all made perfect sense at the end of Cress.

Cress was an odd character. She was imprisoned on a satellite for years, never having any human contact other than with her captor. She had no clue how to interact with people when she finally did meet them. That became very obvious, very quickly. Cress was awkward in a really adorable way. She was brilliant, as well, which probably didn’t help with her awkwardness. It also didn’t help that she had a major crush on Thorne (who wouldn’t?). There were quite a few laughs at her interactions with Thorne. Thorne was hilarious on his own but add in Cress and I laughed a lot. They were perfectly imperfect together.

The story really comes to a head in Cress. Everything has been leading to a revolution and while that revolution hasn’t quite started yet, it’s pretty much there now. Every last detail is put in place. Every person who is going to be involved has been introduced. Motives have been explored, not just the typical ones but even the unexpected ones. Things are going to go down in Winter. That’s my prediction.

Overall, I don’t want to spoil anything so I’m going to stop now. I have to say though that I can’t recommend this book enough. Cress is the best in the series so far and even though it’s over 500 pages, you will read it in no time! Just think of all that Thorne! That’s why there are so many pages.

What others are saying about Cress:

Queen Ella Bee Reads' review: "Just stop reading this and go start this series."

Snuggly Oranges' review: "This is absolutely fantastic: great characters, wonderful world building, engrossing writing, plenty of feels, and ships that are setting sail."

Scott Reads It's review: "My love for Cress is absolutely boundless and I am extremely obsessed with this book!"

Series:
Cinder (#1)
Scarlet (#2)
Cress (#3)
Winter (#4) - 2015

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Résumé:

Depuis les lointaines étoiles jusqu'aux recoins d'une sombre forêt, les destins de Scarlet et de Cinder 

semblent liés. 

Alors que l'une cherche sa grand-mère mystérieusement disparue et que l'autre poursuit la quête de ses 

origines, la menace lunaire qui pèse sur l'humanité se renforce. 

Cinder et Scarlet parviendront-elles à lui résister ?

Mon avis:

Un second tome aussi bon que le premier si ce n'est meilleur!

Chaque tome laisse la place à une héroïne de conte de fée à la sauce futuriste mais la surprise est de voir que l'héroïne précédente n'a pas été oubliée mais fait partir intégrante de l'histoire. Nous avons donc Scarlet (le petit chaperon rouge) et Cinder (Cendrillon).

Scarlet travaille avec sa grand-mère dans le sud-ouest de la France et elle a un tempérament de feu, elle ne se laisse pas marcher sur les pieds et n'hésite pas à se mouiller dans l'action. Son aventure commence quand elle apprend que sa grand-mère s'est faite enlever et qu'elle rencontre loup, un mystérieux combattant des rues. Elle décident alors de partir à la recherche de son aïeule avec ce charmant jeune homme.

Ce tome suit en parallèle Scarlet et son épopée pour récupérer sa grand-mère mais aussi Cinder et son évasion avec le capitaine Thorne ainsi que l'empereur Kaï et ses difficultés à gérer le royaume en la présence de la souveraine lunaire. L'histoire se densifie un peu plus et l’enchevêtrement des événements et des histoires de chaque personnages est vraiment bien amené et travaillé. L'auteur nous tient en haleine dans l'histoire de chacun et on se demande comment ils vont finir. On en apprend beaucoup plus sur les lunaire et son odieuse reine.

Ce tome marque aussi l'apparition de deux nouveaux personnages qui je pense vont marquer le destin des héroïnes. Du côté de Scarlet il faut forcément un loup, incarné par Loup (tout simplement). J'ai adoré ce personnage énigmatique et torturé, il faut absolument que je lise la nouvelle le concernant pour en savoir un peu plus, en tout cas il me plaît bien. Et Thorne me plaît tout autant, il est charmeur et drôle, avec Cinder leur duo fait des étincelles. J'ai hâte de retrouver ces deux personnages dans les prochains tomes.

Voilà donc un second tome réussi avec de l'action, des révélations et de la romance (eh oui!). J'ai maintenant hâte de voir ce que l'auteure nous réserve avec Raiponce et Blanche-neige!

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