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Cress by Marissa Meyer

15 reviews

good_names_dont_exist's review

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Kidnapping, Confinement, and Trafficking

Moderate: Violence, Torture, Medical content, War, and Death of parent

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, and Blood

vanessa_v's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping and Gun violence

Minor: Torture

msradiosilence's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad 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? Yes

3.5

TLDR; 3.5 rating, age gaps, and once again no setting descirptions.
Content warnings at the bottom. :)

Well, I can’t always have nice things. Once again, Meyer seems allergic to describing her settings in any detail, and once again it’s set in a culture that she, as a white woman, has no claim on. As such, and additionally with my other gripe, this is the beginning of the Lunar Chronicles downhill plummet.

Much like in Laini Taylor’s Strange the Dreamer and Muse of Nightmares, I hate age gaps like the one in Cress. Cress is 16. She’s a child. And Thorne is a grown ass man. It’s especially icky because he pushes her away not because she’s a child but because he doesn’t think he’s good enough for her. So, gross. Hate it. Also, their miscommunication drives me nuts. I hate miscommunication plots.

I also don’t like that

Spoiler

Dr. Erland is reveled as Cress’ dad in this book and it’s literally mentioned ONCE in the next one.

I feel like that’s information that is relevant, not only to Cress but to her emotional stability in the next installment? But nope.

Spoiler

There’s no mourning, she’s fine after finding her dad and then watching him die.

Rating: 3.5
Would I recommend? Kind of, especially if you enjoy age gaps, found family and literally found family, and sci-fi fairytale retellings.

Content warnings: Death, Mental illness, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Blood, Genocide, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Ableism, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, Fire/Fire injury, Murder, Dementia, Gore, Grief, Medical trauma, Violence, War, Medical content, and Torture

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Grief, Death of parent, Dementia, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Torture, Violence, Child death, Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Medical content, Medical trauma, Alcohol, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, and Blood

strawberrytheauthor's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful 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? No

5.0

This series gets better the more I read. I really enjoy the skeleton of fairytales but each book is really very different. I think this has been my favorite book so far and I’m excited to see what Winter will be. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Mass/school shootings, Torture, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, Genocide, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Pandemic/Epidemic, Suicide, War, Grief, Body horror, Bullying, Death, and Confinement

Minor: Deportation

psliz'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? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

felt like a catch-up book with everyone trying to reunite but i did enjoy the romance

Spoiler

(if you ignore the uncomfortable and unnecessary age gap)

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, War, Torture, Gun violence, Adult/minor relationship, and Confinement

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Medical trauma, Ableism, and Kidnapping

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Torture, Trafficking, and Violence

Minor: Gun violence and Blood

meghansarmiento97's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Death, Kidnapping, and Murder

woolgathering_jane's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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? No

5.0

“I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.” 

Oh, this was so good. The pacing and twists were excellent, and I had a blast while reading. Seriously, I haven't read something this entertaining in some time (I need to pick better books, I know). Six hundred pages flew by and I can't wait to get my hands on the final book. Easily the best book in the series, if only for the many laugh-out-loud moments (mainly because of Thorne).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Kidnapping, and Trafficking

Minor: Suicide, War, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Murder

kittyfan9hh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Trafficking

Minor: Blood, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, and War

cpachet's review against another edition

adventurous emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

I love the Lunar Chronicles and Cress is no exception. This new character is a sci-fi twist on Rapunzel, with a wicked captor, a blinded hero, the lot. I highly recommend reading Fairest before Cress; it helped contextualize some of the aspects of Lunar culture and abilities and I feel I would have been lost without that knowledge. Lots of loose ends so make sure you have a copy of Winter on hand (I don’t and I’m heading to the library to find one). My biggest complaint about this series is that for all its diversity (cyborgs, racial/cultural diversity, wolf-hybrids), there is no 2SLGBTQIA+ representation and I feel like it’s a missed opportunity. Every woman character seems linked to a man romantically and while the women are capable and strong, I wish there was less comphet.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Torture, and Kidnapping