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bucketofcursedbooks · 1 year

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How I imagined the lunar chronicles characters except it gets progressively less accurate

I've recently started reading lunar chronicles, but despite some of their descriptions my dumb brain sees them as other characters.

Cinder

Scarlet

Prince Kai

Sybil

queen levana

Adri

Wolf

Thorne

Dr. Erland

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nonelysianthoughts · 6 months

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Chapter 53 of Cress currently sobbing my eyes out. WHY MARISSA WHY ARE YOU SO CRUEL!!!!!!!

#we simply cannot have loving parents fore they prevent character development #Cress #Dr erland #the lunar chronicles #Crescent #marissa Meyer

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thorneswife · 17 days

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Cinwell is real

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #linh cinder #captain carswell thorne #cress darnel #dr erland #cress reread #cinwell #captlinh #the everything captlinh tag

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deprivedmusicaljunkie · 2 years

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i think torin deserves a mental breakdown. in which he becomes Very Sexy and unhinged, and maybe his shirt is unbuttoned, and maybe he has explosive sex with. doctor erland

#marissa was so right to make almost every adult male a dilf #i need the person who wrote the thorne/jacin smut fic to write something for torin and erland #tlc #the lunar chronicles #konn torin #dr erland #torin x erland

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reyyanfromartemisia · 1 year

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He likes his glasses unlike me

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #linh cinder #dr erland

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winterrhayle · 2 years

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as a fandom we don’t talk enough about how dr erland gave cinder that vague instruction to meet him in africa.

AFRICA.

AS IF ITS NOT A WHOLE CONTINENT???!?

#so bizarre #miss meyer explain urself #dr erland #tlc #mine

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yellowraincoat · 4 months

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Me every time it’s time to reread Cress:

#like 16 and TWENTY??? that’s a child!!!!#there is also no plot reason why Cress couldn’t have been 18 canonically. it only minimally changes Dr. Erland’s timeline #cresswell #tlc #the lunar chronicles #tlc memes

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a-salting-the-world · 1 year

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Cinder: New plan. We stop planning. We hope that our early successes make up for the mess that we've become.

Dr. Erland:

#linh cinder #source: the good place #tlc incorrect quotes #incorrect quotes #dr. erland

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gingerale2017 · 11 months

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happy fathers day to rikan, evret, garrison, and torin

#honorable mention to dr erland

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the-carlyle-review · 11 months

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Cinder Review

I was in a Barnes and Noble recently and happened upon the revamped Lunar Chronicles covers. I’ve read this series a couple times through, and I own the ebook for Cinder. However, the newest covers are so well done that I couldn’t resist buying a physical copy of the first book.

Cinder is a fairytale retelling in a futuristic world. It follows Linh Cinder, a teenage cyborg who is the the best mechanic in New Beijing, but you wouldn’t know it based on the way her stepmother treats her. Cinder finds herself drawn into royal politics and intrigue when tasked with fixing one of the royal androids, and spends much of the book grappling with questions of identity, especially as her cyborg status is a point of contention even in this futuristic society.

I flew through this book. Cinder is one of the books that I hold in high esteem in my memory, but which I don’t reread as often as I do some of my other favorites. I’m glad that I chose to do now because I’d forgotten just how fun this book is. This book is an easy but captivating read, perfect for readers aged teen and up, and its status as a Young Adult book should not deter older readers from picking it up!

Cinder by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles #1): ⭐ 10/10 ⭐

Spoilers Below!

I first read this book years ago, so my review now is based mainly on my experience of rereading it and knowing everything that is set to happen not only in this book but also in the rest of the Lunar Chronicles. That being said, I believe that the ability to reread a book and be just as engaged as you were the first time is the sign of a strongly written book. I’m not just here for the plot, of which I know most of the ins and outs. The characters that Meyer has created and shaped are a crucial factor keeping me from putting this book down.

Cinder is a charming protagonist, even if she wouldn’t agree with that description. She spends most of the book agonizing over her cyborg identity, and later the knowledge that she is Lunar. Her run-ins with Kai are constantly overshadowed by the fact that she is cyborg and he doesn’t know– there are many scenes in which she is aware of just how quickly he could discover her secret. And then later, Dr. Erland drops the bombshell of the century on her when he reveals that she is Lunar (which is nothing compared to the Princess Selene secret he’ll leave her with at the very end of the book), and Cinder is left grasping the fact that she is now an outcast in two ways. Not only is she held at arms length from the rest of society for her metal parts, but she is also a Lunar, a group hated by most on Earth– in fact, it’s illegal for her to be on Earth. The first of many laws she will break in this series, and she didn’t even have a choice in the matter!

The side characters are no less interesting than our protagonist, which further strengthens this book. Iko is the charming android whose faulty personality chip has provided Cinder with one of her only friends and, after Peony’s illness and death, her only confidante. At times, Iko even acts more like a teenage girl than Cinder does. Peony is another interesting side character as she breaks the original Cinderella myth by being kind to Cinder and one of her other close ties (Pearl, on the other hand, fully acts out the traditional role of evil stepsister). Peony’s illness does an exceptional job driving the plot forward, especially as it keeps Cinder to both Kai and Dr. Erland. Kai too is a fun character, and we see the struggle that he has in taking such a high-stakes role of responsibility at such a young age. His interactions with Cinder contrast sharply with his struggles with the Lunars, as the former plays out as a love story he may have been able to pursue had he not been shoved so quickly into the role of Emperor. It is also highly ironic that Kai likes Cinder because she feels normal, when in reality Cinder is anything but normal.

Another interesting part of Peony’s involvement in the plot is the way she is mourned for more of the book than she is an active character. Even while she is alive, the second she catches letumosis her remaining family members are resigned to her death– in fact, this is a big factor driving Adri and Cinder further apart. Following Cinder’s perspective we know she finds out that she is Lunar and may be able to help find a cure by helping Dr. Erland. Adri, on the other hand, believes that Cinder was sent away from the research labs and then ignored most of the mourning she and Pearl were doing for Peony. I know that Adri always saw the worst in Cinder anyway, and I don’t mean for this to be an argument as to why Adri’s actions were reasonable– they weren’t. However, this leads into one of the areas of interest with not only Cinder but with the rest of the series– at times, we see hints of what the rest of the world sees Cinder & co doing. Adri believes Cinder isn’t mourning Peony, and while Cinder is in jail at the end of the book we get some more snippets of what the media is making up to explain her role in everything. I wish that we got to see more of this outsider view, especially considering the enormous secret of Princess Selene that drives many of Cinder’s actions in the following books.

#cinder #marissa meyer #the lunar chronicles #booktok #book review #linh cinder #iko #linh peony #linh adri #linh pearl #prince kai #dr. erland #the carlyle review

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novarosewood · 10 months

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As I'm rereading Cinder I see the clues early on the Dr. Erland is lunar.

#cinder #tlc #the lunar chronicles #dr dimitri erland #pg. 71 ch. 7

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captain-hooks · 9 months

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Dr. Erland- Fairy Godmother, presumably

#If it seems like I dumped a bunch of art and died it’s because uhhhhh job #but guess who’s unemployed again #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #tlc #cinder #marissa meyer #fanart #my art #illustration #character design

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princessselene126 · 8 months

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I'm not including Iko in this bc she's a main character imo and not a supporting one.

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

#lunar chronicles #the lunar chronicles #tlc #poll #my post

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catoscloves · 6 months

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i'm thinking about the fact that in cinder dr erland was always showing preference toward younger cyborgs in the draft, particularly teenage girls, and like... we know the reason obviously but his lab peers (i forgot their names) had no context and might have come to their own possible conclusions about why dr erland specifically targeted teenage women......

#i feel like that's far fetched but at that point i would have definitely considered the possibility #honestly I'm just trolling lol i highly doubt anyone in the lab went *there*#the lunar chronicles

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eglerieth · 8 months

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#Lunar Chronicles #Poll #polls #cinder #scarlet #cress #winter #eglerieth

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impossiblesuitcase · 3 months

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Imagine Back to the future, Kaider AU?

I don't know if you are a referencing the post I made about this, but I already have an entire Back to the Future TLC AU mapped out. Cinder is Marty, Kai is Jennifer, Dr. Erland is Dr. Emmett Brown. In the AU I do considerably change up some things so it flows better with the TLC universe, and yes poor Kai does have a larger role than Jennifer does. I don't know if I'll ever write this AU because I'd want it to span all three movies which is a lot 🥲 But I'll give you the basic premise:

Cinder is a high schooler in 1985 training to be a mechanic. She's friends with Doc, an eccentric scientist who once invented a time machine but accidentally sent his daughter Crescent back in time. He's since then been trying to recreate it so that he can get her back and is using Cinder's mechanical skills to help him--though she has no idea what the project is for. Cinder is dating Kai, a high school senior a year ahead of her who's preparing for University. His parents don't approve of the relationship because Cinder is the orphan of Channary Blackburn. The Blackburn family took over Kai's family business and drained it of all profits, leaving his family for broke.

As you can guess, Cinder and Kai accidentally end up in 1955. As they try to figure out how to get home (lack of plutonium and all) Cinder wards off her young Aunt Levana--the queen bee of the high school. When she does in a particularly epic skateboarding sequence, a young Rikan becomes infatuated with her instead of Kai's mother. Cinder is a dead ringer for her mother Channary at this age. So Rikan confuses the two, and every time Cinder rejects him, Channary flirts with him and puts him back on the chase. Which, if not remedied, will mean that Kai and Cinder will be erased from existence...

#the lunar chronicles #tlc #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #kaider #emperor kai

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