Cinder seems different from other young people's books, which there is currently on the market. It joins a long cast of sinister Zukunftsdystopien, but refuses to disappear in the mass.
It is the first of four volumes, which hang all of the well-known fairy tale new, but moving in the introduced in the first volume background story.
Especially wonderfully refreshing it, here to read at last a realistic love story in a youth book was. Often they appear to be rushed, inauthentic and not understandable. In Cinder but the characters are approaching very slowly, it is not thrown with big words like love around and it's a rather sweet, almost hesitant romance that should bring the reader the one time or another smile.
With the Prince Kai a character was created, which appears immediately sympathetic. He seems ripe and ready to ascend the throne in his thinking and acting. However, it is clear that he is only a young man of the approaching object does not see himself grow. Some few passages in the book are written from his perspective, what does not disturb the flow of reading or to allow accurate insight. On the contrary, by these same sections, the reader learns more, especially important information and ideas, the only from the perspective of Cinder might not be accurate enough could have been shown. In general, it is a male protagonist, which so many female readers hearts beat faster through small gestures and is for once not a typical bad boy.
Cinder appears delightfully sarcastic, but also vulnerable. You do not want more people to know that she is a cyborg, but she wants to be seen as what it is: a human being. Why it might sometimes makes mistakes out of their uncertainty, but at the end of selfless and strong for the fight, what is important to her.
A character, to which I have developed a kind of love-hate relationship during reading is clearly Queen Levana. Firstly, the hatred, because it is the perfect villain easy and you can do nothing other than to try to strangle them through the pages by. Second, the love, because it just so wonderfully fits as a character in the whole scene and the author of their malicious and manipulative Moon Queen no better could make.
It is different to Cinders stepmother Adri and her daughter Pearl. On the one hand it acts a little understandable since most studied as Adri still grieving wife to blame for the death of her husband in Cinder. Nevertheless, her characters seem a bit too exaggerated. In their wickedness they seem too extreme and usually is not their actions nachzuvollziehbar. Furthermore, it is unclear why Peony the only family stands on Cinders side when her family environment has yet drummed into her from an early leg, just to hate this.
In summary it can be said that Cinder is a novel that stands out from others and has definitely earned a place on the bookshelf. Wonderfully designed characters and a credible vision of the future represented whet your appetite for a sequel and complicate a waiting time until February-2013.
