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Wie Monde so silbern by Marissa Meyer

45 reviews

ashmeanything's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

It's always cool when something defies your expectations - I have had this book on my radar since it came out when I was a teenager. My rationale was simple: a retelling of Cinderella seems like something I'd like, and her being a robot is a bonus. Finally picking this book up over a decade later, I was delighted to see the unique and well-crafted world Meyer has built around this story. Being a YA novel with more of a character focus, we don't get tons of information about <i>why</i> things are this way, but that doesn't bother me. I loved seeing the spin on world cultures following a plague, two more world wars, and complete restructuring of global politics. It expanded the Cinderella character with tastes of a bigger world but still kept a lighthearted and pleasant flow that felt appropriate for the tone. I'm glad I finally read it and will continue the series at some point.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Self harm, Terminal illness, Kidnapping, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Panic attacks/disorders, and Violence

Minor: Xenophobia and War

madi_oasis's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Re-reading one of my favourite young adult fairytale retelling series! I first picked this book up in high school, around 2013-2014, and loved it so much! 

The world-building and character writing is very good, and I really like the implications of the larger universe being fairly unknown at this point in the series. The reader knows enough about the overall universe without the book needing to lore-dump or go into lengthy exposition. 

Cinder’s character arch is really good, it takes her a long time to realise her potential, and she has to really work for it and grow as a character. The ending is a cliff-hanger

but still gives the feeling that Cinder is going to get out of the prison cell and find her way out of Levana’s grasp

.  I can’t wait to re-read the rest of the series!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Terminal illness, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Body horror, Emotional abuse, Slavery, Violence, and Medical content

Minor: Gun violence, Torture, and War

cranereader's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Emotional abuse, and Classism

Moderate: Physical abuse, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: War

m_slumberr's review against another edition

adventurous dark lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

I missed these series, definitely going to read it all again.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death and Violence

alienstage_ivan's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gore

Minor: Violence

megnut's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Blood, and Medical content

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.

jessicadoom's review against another edition

funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

After reading Renegades, I had high hopes for the rest of Marissa Meyer's books. World-building wise, I was still very much impressed. And the story was great! There was just something missing to keep it from being a full 4 stars. Maybe it was the insta-love. Maybe the fact that I called the twist from very early on. Not sure, but I did still enjoy it! Just not yet ready to pick up the next book in the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Medical trauma, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence, Xenophobia, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Self harm, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

_ren's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Gun violence, and Blood

Minor: Vomit and Abandonment

kal_el_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Moderate: Violence and War

Minor: Gun violence