Winter by Marissa Meyer

Winter

By Marissa Meyer

   

Original Synopsis: Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.

Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.

Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? 

My Review: I love the Lunar Chronicles and reading this book was really bittersweet. However, I would say that this is one of my favorite books from the series. It's a tie between Cress and Winter mostly because I love Thorne and Cress. I really enjoyed reading Winter, like a lot. I loved how all the characters' lives meshed together. The new character that was introduced, Winter, was really unique and different. Winter is Queen Levana's step daughter and she is...mentally ill (is that the right word for it?). She gets these visions, like the walls bleeding or her turning to ice and they come from years and years of suppressing her gift and powers. And Jacin from the previous book is her best friend who's she's madly in love with and he feels the same but he is just a royal guard who Levana would never let marry or be together. Winter also has these scars on her face that is rumored to be from the Queen forcing her, with her power, to harm herself because she is naturally beautiful. Winter doesn't use glamour and the people think she the most beautiful even with her scars. And so the Queen wants Jacin to kill her and he doesn't and sends her to hide, like the typical Snow White story. The book also catches people up on the other couples of the story and it is so cute. Cinder, Kai, Cress, Thorne, Iko, Scarlet, and Wolf navigate their way into getting Levana overthrown and this story has so much action and romance, it's amazing. Overall, I loved this book. Marissa has such a way with words and always makes her characters vibrant and unique. I absolutely love her romance scenes, especially Cress and Thorne, which by the way- they took an entire book and nothing happened really but in this one... Anyways, it was great to see another strong female come to the story and see all the loose ends tied up. Great beginning, great middle, and great ending. 10/10 would recommend.


OKAY SPOILERS UP NEXT. 

Okay so if you have read it, were you upset with Wolf's physical reconstruction? Because I kind of was. I didn't think he deserved it and it was sad how after all he's done, he'd get an ending like that. I mean it was sweet that Scarlet didn't care and still loved him because it added a lot of depth and meaning to their relationship but if felt wrong. Also when the story ends with Winter not fully recovering, I was left a little hanging but it's all good since it shows that not everything is all sunshines and rainbows. And Cinder and Kai, the original duo, together forever. I mean I loved how Cinder's character was very private and closed off but I would like to have seen more from them. But at the end when he asks her if she'd ever consider being empress and she says yes, I internally died. They will be amazing rulers. Okay now for Cress and Thorne.. It kind of sucked that they had a whole book but nothing really happened but in this one, it was so sweet. It was nice that Thorne was showing his true feelings because, before, it was mostly Cress pining for him but in this book we know he was equally interested. They had a really nice scene at the end where Captain spoke his true feelings and won Cress but also kept his flair of personality. I really hoped you liked this book as much I did. Did you like the closing to the Lunar Chronicles because I sure did.