The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. An image of a foot, up to the lower calf, against a dark black blue background. A patch of light is under the foot. The foot is wearing white stockings and a shiny red stiletto. The foot is transparent, and the skeleton is visible. It is metal instead of bone.
The title, at the top of the book, reads “Cinder” in large, styled, white writing.
At the bottom of the cover, the author’s name “Marissa Meyer” in small black lowercase writing. /end]

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Content Warning:

• References to Fire
• Child Death (on page)
• Plague
• Terminal Illness
• Emotional Abuse
• Child Abuse
• Medical Trauma
• Injury
• Xenophobia
• Violence
• Blood
• War

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Summary:

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless Lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl. . . . Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.

She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.

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Notes:

This is the first book in the The Lunar Chronicles series. The series retells the classic fairy tales of Cinderella, Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood and Snow White in a science fiction setting. This is a retelling of Cinderella.

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Archivist Comments:

I’ve read this book and I’m so mad that it had to be suggested before I remembered it existed. I used to love The Lunar Chronicles, you’d think I’d remember to put it on the list!

If I remember correctly, later in the series there’s also a character with facial scarring.

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