Okay, this might be awful, but I wasn’t blown away by Winter, the last installment in The Lunar Chronicles. I think maybe it was too long? All the action takes place on Luna, but there’s just so much back and forth and splitting up and reuniting, and…I don’t know! I liked it, but I wasn’t desperate to read it the way I expected.
The characters remain amazing. Meyer has found a way to make her heroines and heroes both strong and vulnerable. The women are especially powerful – the final confrontation between Cinder and Levana was an epic standoff…between two women! That doesn’t happen nearly enough. I also really liked Winter, and how her mental breakdowns were viewed as weakness by ignorant bad guys, but as strength by those who know her. And Thorne remains the dashing snarky hero of my heart. Continue reading