Winter (Lunar Chronicles #4) by Marissa Meyer
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Satisfying conclusion
The battle is in full force in Book 4 of The Lunar Chronicles. I continue to be impressed by how Meyer plotted her story around four fairy tales and managed to bring about a satisfying conclusion that made sense. Winter takes the prize for being the longest book I've read to date. All 823 pages were well worth my time.
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An utter dissapointment!
This book is far too long for its own good with far too many POV’s. That feeling of continuing to watch a bad move just because you want to see how it ends had now been reduced to keep reading because of that one or two characters and that one ship I am invested in. That lasted but 500 pages in, then, after a particular turn of events that trashed my favorite character and consequently, my one OTP, after a skip-ahead to skim through the final chapters, the whole series went into the bin. I can accept the incredibly cheap OTT mind controlling. I can accept how Levana is portrayed as a much bigger threat than what she actually is and how laughingly easy it was to defeat her. I can even accept (but barely) the bland Mary-Sue that is Winter and that mental illness is treated as a character flaw. What I cannot tolerate, however, is the poor handling of trauma. Where the first and even second book of the series did so well in describing the aftermath of involuntarily life-altering changes and the trauma that ensues, in Winter the characters undergo several life-altering physical and emotive traumas, such as emotional abuse and the loss of both loved ones and body parts, that would scar anyone for life and warrant decades of therapy, which is then shrugged off by the author as no big deal, even to the point of where years and years of both physical and mental abuse is being neglected and brushed over, all for the sake of a happily ever after. It all left a sour taste in my mouth and felt both disrespectful to and out of touch with the first two books, as well as highly disrespectful to the characters involved. Everything that made the first two books appealing is shredded – trashed and ruined. In fact, so revoltingly bad it was, the author even retconned a series of irreversible and injurious physical and mental alterations to change everything – and I mean e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. about a certain character, both in appearance, mentality, and personality, –stripping away all their humanity, and thereby effectively killing off everything that made this character appealing, reducing them to a mindless, blood-thirsty animal and then later claiming they were still the same, thereby directly contradicting her own words in earlier chapters, and all for the sake of shoehorning in another fairy-tale reference, a petty beauty-and-the-beast fantasy.
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Wow!
WOW! what a series! I must say though, with all these couples I am severely disappointed there wasn't a single queer couple. Overall, this is just an incredible series that is so thought out, familiar, and also refreshing and new. I am excited to read the "epilogue" bevause even though there is a "happy ever after", I am someone who loooooves to swim in the happy ever afters!
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Best book of the series!
I read the entire Lunar Chronicles series within a year and loved it. I remember being hesitant about starting this one because this one was so big and I worried I would grow bored and that the plot would become slow. As always, Meyer proved me wrong. The entire plot was was fun journey and there were constant struggles thrown at the characters that actually made sense. The romance in these did become a little bit tedious--as all of the main characters are of course involved in some sort of romance--but it was no overall unenjoyable. The characters were very complex and I had a lot of fun predicting what they would do and seeing how the changes to the environment impacted them. The story does jump around a lot--as there are several narrators--but, in a way, it did keep the story going and I was not confused while keeping up. If anything, it made me want to continue reading because almost every chapter ended on an interesting cliff hanger. I loved how it is based off original fairy tales but Meyer allowed her creativity to run wild and make her own twists on it. The story was fun, unpredictable, and very welly written for the general audience. Five stars! Would definitely recommend this to a friend!
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