Review of Marissa Meyer's The Lunar Chronicles: Fairest
Release Date: January 27th, 2015
Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:
In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Who is the fairest of them all?
Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told . . . until now.
Marissa Meyer spins yet another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death. This extraordinary book includes full-color art and an excerpt from Winter, the next book in the Lunar Chronicles series.
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Excerpt from Fairest:
Having control over the blue planet would solve all of her political problems. Luna's need for resources and land and a larger labor force. She did not want to go down in history as the fairest queen this little moon had ever known. She wanted to be known through history as the fairest queen of the galaxy. As the ruler who united Luna and Earth under one monarchy.
The yearning grew quietly at first, taking the place in her belly where a child should have been. It thrived somewhere so deep inside her she hadn't even known it existed until one day she looked up at the planet hanging, mocking her, just out of reach, and she almost fell to her knees with the strength of her want.
The more time that passed, the more that desire dug its talons into her.
She deserved Earth.
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I love the Lunar Chronicles so much and as I've said before, I am a huge fan of Fairy Tales re-told in a new way. Each of Meyer's books in this series pertains to a different Fairy Tale: Cinder (Cinderella), Scarlet (Little Red Riding Hood), and Cress (Rapunzel). This book, Fairest, is actually a companion book to the next and final book that is supposed to be released later this year, Winter. While Fairest is about Levana's back story and how she became the Evil ruler she is, Winter will be a re-telling of Snow White.
I was actually shocked after the first 3 books painted Levana as the evil tyrant, I was happy to find out that she does have a softer side... well, did is probably the more proper terminology. Fairest shows us what can turn a sweet innocent child into a power crazed murderer. We find out exactly what happened to her to give her the scars that cover her body (which are the reason she is constantly veiled and glamoured) as well as what made her attempt to murder her baby neice, Selene (Cinder). And while this book may be only a companion book and consist of 217 pages (as well as the excerpt from the upcoming final book, Winter), it does really pack in a lot of information and back story.
Marissa Meyer knows how to captivate an audience with her writing. She could write about anything and I would read it... well maybe not anything, but you get the picture. I will say that I did not read the excerpt for Winter, because I don't like starting a book without being able to finish it. I would rather just read the entire book at once. I am already excited to find out how the series ends, I don't want to torture myself with only a small taste.
If you love this series, be sure to check out to check out The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani, Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge, Tiger's Curse by Colleen Houck, Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay, and Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine... just to name a few.
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