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Cress by Marissa Meyer

50 reviews

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted sad 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

5.0

This book was more of a 4.8⭐️ simply bc Cress wasn’t my favorite of the female characters but I still enjoyed getting to know her and her backstory. Her naivety and awkward social skills made me cringe even though I understood that she grew up in solitude so ofc her social cues were out of whack, but seeing them happen was still 😵‍💫 Regardless, I love that we’re getting closer to defeating Queen Levana especially since Kai is now involved in the action. Looking forward to reading the next book :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Murder, Abandonment, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Trafficking

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Death of parent

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Torture, Kidnapping, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Grief, Murder, and War

momloves2read's review against another edition

adventurous dark 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? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Trafficking

amschelly153's review against another edition

adventurous 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

4.0

Really fun YA series!

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Torture, Violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

sing1133's review

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

5.0

I absolutely LOVED this book!!! So far my favourite of the series (but we’ll see if that changes with book 4). 
I always worry that I won’t like the new characters as much but they are always amazing! I loved Cress and her and Thorne’s chapters were my favourite to read! (I am now a giant Thorne fan!)
I also love how all the characters storylines overlap so even if they are in different places and separated, it is still a cohesive and continuous story. 
It was fun having the group separated for a bit but I must say I love when they are all back together working together. 
I found this book so fun to read and I love how the stakes are rising more and more as the characters are also developing. 
Can’t wait to read Winter!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, and Kidnapping

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Blood and War

baileyk113's review against another edition

adventurous funny hopeful 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

4.25

704 Pages

When I started the book, I was concerned with the amount of characters and different points of view we were going to be getting. After reading, I looooved all the different points of view. Cress was such a lovely addition, and I loved reading her interactions with Thorne. They’re literally the cutest. Oh, and the description of her satellite was so cool. Dr. Erland’s ending was so sad but I’m glad he knew that Cress was his daughter. And losing Scarlet!!! The scene where she had her finger chopped off was too much✋. But loved that Kai joined the adventure in the end. I can’t wait to see how Jacin and Winter fit into it all…

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Content Warnings

Minor: Torture

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: Confinement, Death, Trafficking, and Kidnapping

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

Minor: Gun violence, Suicide, and Blood

taque's review

fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness

Minor: Child death, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Mental illness, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Abandonment, War, and Pandemic/Epidemic

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: Gun violence and Kidnapping

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

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.

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