A review by marshmallowbooks
Cress by Marissa Meyer
3.0
It's not quite as obvious by the title, but this third installment of The Lunar Chronicles is still about a well-known fairy tale character. In this case, Rapunzel. I guess the cover art does elude to that, but the title alone doesn't as much.
I listened to the audiobook and honestly, i was looking forward to seeing how things ended up for the characters I had met and the thing that had been going on in their multi-fairy-tale-sci-fi world.
But this is not the end of the series. I really thought it was, and was getting worried when I started the last cd that things were going to be wrapping up really quickly.
No, this book brought up another thing I tend to dislike about series: making two books more "connected" that the rest of the books in the series. Of course, when I reached the end of both Cinder and Scarlet, I knew there was more to come. They had each introduced characters and plot and situations needing resolution. But they stopped at what I feel like, were good stopping points. Not an absolute cliffhanger, or mid-sentence, or mid-scene, but there is a definite "To be continued...."
Not so with Cress. It stops right in the middle of action, and plot, and character story. This means (a) that I was wrong in thinking this was a trilogy - there is definitely more to come; and (b) that books 3 and 4 are more closely tied together than 1 and 2, or 2 and 3. I don't know why that bothers me! But it does.
Oh, and in as I searched for part 4 - because now I have to find out how things end up overall - I discovered that there are about a billion 1/2 books now in the series. Alas, what i thought was going to be a nice trilogy - which in most cases is about the maximum series length I can tolerate anymore because beyond that everything really seems to be either repeated or simply drawn out way too long (this series is approaching both) - is not only longer than a trilogy, but now I wonder if I should feel obligated to go back to all the 1/2 books that have cropped up in the meantime. I don't like it when authors create that predicament for their readers.
I listened to the audiobook and honestly, i was looking forward to seeing how things ended up for the characters I had met and the thing that had been going on in their multi-fairy-tale-sci-fi world.
But this is not the end of the series. I really thought it was, and was getting worried when I started the last cd that things were going to be wrapping up really quickly.
No, this book brought up another thing I tend to dislike about series: making two books more "connected" that the rest of the books in the series. Of course, when I reached the end of both Cinder and Scarlet, I knew there was more to come. They had each introduced characters and plot and situations needing resolution. But they stopped at what I feel like, were good stopping points. Not an absolute cliffhanger, or mid-sentence, or mid-scene, but there is a definite "To be continued...."
Not so with Cress. It stops right in the middle of action, and plot, and character story. This means (a) that I was wrong in thinking this was a trilogy - there is definitely more to come; and (b) that books 3 and 4 are more closely tied together than 1 and 2, or 2 and 3. I don't know why that bothers me! But it does.
Oh, and in as I searched for part 4 - because now I have to find out how things end up overall - I discovered that there are about a billion 1/2 books now in the series. Alas, what i thought was going to be a nice trilogy - which in most cases is about the maximum series length I can tolerate anymore because beyond that everything really seems to be either repeated or simply drawn out way too long (this series is approaching both) - is not only longer than a trilogy, but now I wonder if I should feel obligated to go back to all the 1/2 books that have cropped up in the meantime. I don't like it when authors create that predicament for their readers.