Review: Fairest: Levana's Story

Fairest: Levana's Story by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Novella of the Lunar Chronicles series - a story about Queen Levana (of how she became who she is). I have high hopes for this series because of how Marissa Meyer twists and turns the common knowledge of fairytales. I always do enjoy a good fairytale retelling.

It hurts to read about Levana. If she's evil, then her sister would be far worst. Levana is a victim, a broken doll since the miserable fire incident in her childhood time. I couldn't but to sympathise Levana, for her past. Looks is by far one of the most important aspects for a female. Yes, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover but everybody judges, it's the truth. Because of she was too concerned of it, she has lost confidence with herself, turning into who she is now.

I enjoy being in the Lunar world again, after so long. (and still anticipating Winter) Fairest was an unexpected published. It was totally unnecessary because the series has not yet ended. (and because I always do think novellas are quite unnecessarry) It was a bonus but also a disappointment as the last book was delayed even further. I would want the ending more than this piece of novella.



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Cress by Marissa Meyer

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The 3rd book of the Lunar Chronicles series. 

- SYNOPSIS LINK - (rather not read it since it’s the 3rd book of the series)

Goner. THIS WAS SO DAMN GOOD.

*The following contains spoilers of the series, if you have not started the series, you are advised to START READING IT NOW.*

When I was reading Cinder, I thought I would just ‘ship Cinder&Kai; then when I was reading Scarlet, I loved Scarlet&Wolf; when I was reading Cress, man, Cress&Thorne were so adorable. When I was ending Cress, I fell back to ‘ship of Cinder&Kai. wtfthisthisseriesdoingtomeman?

First off, the plot is very well thought off. It wasn’t just fairy tale retelling, where you could guess what would happen next. But, as the story flows, I was like ‘right, this happen in the original story’, instead of, ‘right, I knew this would happen’. Big Difference. 

Secondly, Cress&Thorne. Carswell Thorne was hilarious. His self-esteem, his jokes, his care for Cress and his blindness (what?) - Thorne, you’re my man. Cress is adorable. Little Crescent Moon, I love her. Her innocent crush towards Thorne and heart-breaks when she thought Thorne would not come and save her. Oh gosh, I couldn’t help but love her more. 

"Believe me, Cress. The pleasure was all mine."

CAN’T YOU NOT LOVE THEM?

I like that these books aren’t written just from one main character POV. They were written from various POVs and from that, we would know what’s happening at different venues. 

Thirdly, I can’t wait for Winter. It would be mind-blowing! A little sneak-peek of Winter while she talked to Scarlet. She’s a mad girl and she could foresee the future, I presume. I’m already in love with her. Plus, Jacin. He’s still a mystery but I’m anticipating. He would either be the prince for Winter or one of the 7 dwarfs. Oh, the 7 dwarfs, can’t wait to read about them!

Definitely a 5-stars on Goodreads.

Another review coming up,

Summer

To Get Into the Lunar Chronicles series:

Cinder / Scarlet / Cress