Reviews tagging 'Death'

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

101 reviews

uselesspirateraven's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Chronic illness, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

op3's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Definitely a 5/5 rating! The book was such a good and easy read but not in the sense it was too easy. I’d been putting off reading this book for the first time and I regret every moment I did! 
This is such a good book and if it’s on your tbr list I HIGHLY recommend you start reading it as soon as possible!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Blood, and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence, Car accident, and War

mj_86's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Why the worst ending in the world?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Blood and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence, Car accident, and War

katbotelho's review against another edition

adventurous tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I had mixed feelings about this. I liked it in the beginning, got really annoyed in the middle and I liked the end. The beginning was all world building and establishment and by the middle of the book i got annoyed bc i felt like it was still just world building and establishment. I also felt like Cinder discovered nothing on her own and that made things less interesting. Any important information was simply given to her by mainly the doctor or

the programmer girl who shows up randomly at the end who I assume is Cress

which was kinda meh in my opinion, but it is YA so it’s understandable i guess. Which is also why I’m excusing the fact that I was able to predict the major plot points early on lmao. I probably would’ve liked it more if I was the target demographic. 

Despite my gripes, i did find the overall plot interesting and although i dont wanna commit to reading a series ill probably at least read the wiki to see what happens.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Terminal illness

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

sophjoy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Blood

noellegrace8's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This is such a cool modern (future, actually??) retelling of Cinderella. She is NOTHING like any Cinderella we've read or watched before. She is a mechnic with a good portion of her body being mechanical in and of itself. Meyer does a fantastic job creating interesting plot points that surprise the reader yet also point them to the original source material of Cinderella. Overall a quick-paced, clever book. I can't wait to read the next installments! The few issues I had with the book were just that it was a bit hard to get into at first, especially because some of the characters weren't as interesting as they could have been, and sometimes the word usage was odd, almost like she used the word adjacent to what she actually meant.

I don't include the audio performer in my overall star review, but I'd give Rebecca Soler 4/5. There isn't much to say outside of her performance falling a bit flat. It wasn't actively bad, but there wasn't enough excitement and variance in her narration to intrigue me; my inner reading dialogue is much more enthusiastic than her performance itself is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Terminal illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Vomit, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Those listed in "graphic" are central themes, although the ableism is more of metaphor (Cinder is a cyborg and treated poorly because of it) than a direct commentary. Moderate categories listed are related to the death of a loved one in the plot, a medical research focus due to the epidemic theme, and the aforementioned ordeal of Cinder being cyborg. "Minor" category items are straightforward and not too present in the book.

greenedreader's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Self harm, Terminal illness, Blood, Car accident, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

brebeingwell's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book is a very loose Cinderella retelling taking place in the distant future after several world wars and major world events that have changed the borders and culture of the planet. Humans have gone off world and settlements have been made on the moon and possibly other planets (other planets unconfirmed in this book). 

My favorite trait of the main character was that she was capable. So many fantasies and sci-fi books make the main female character out to be unskilled until a major event happens. Cinder, from the beginning, was a very capable and skilled being. But she is also still a teenage girl and has the desires and feelings of someone befitting her age. I thought she had a good personality and very interesting abilities that made her POV enjoyable. 

The world building, while complicated, was explained in a very digestible way. The only issue I took was with the lunar colony. Besides doing things for power and seemingly to be evil, there was no real reason presented as to why they were so ruthless. I suspect this may be explored throughout the series.

Kai's response towards the end was not akin to how I pictured him as a person, which makes me think that his actions were only for dramatic effect. The ending straight up sucked and was super unsatisfying, which is why this book only received a 3 star rating.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Slavery

Minor: War

alanna23's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

jadeandherbunny's review against another edition

adventurous inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Self harm and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Slavery and War