Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Short Reviews: February 2013. Scarlet, City of a Thousand Dolls

Scarlet (Lunar Chronicals 2), Marissa Meyer.  ISBN: 978-0312642969 
Feb. 2013 Love the covers on these books.  Sequel to Cinder, with lunar werewolves and a fiesty new girl to root for.  While I liked the lunar weres, having read Cinder, their "mystery" was a little on the obvious side.  The deviations from the standard fairy tale were stronger here, and I felt that the story was a little more adult (torture and death onscreen rather than off).  I'm not overly immersed in the characters, but I am VERY curious about the world.  


City of a Thousand Dolls, Miriam Forster.  ISBN: 978-0062121301 Feb. 2013 Juv fantasy set in a "magical" China-analogue.  Really wanted to like this, but severe flaws in plotting and tone just killed it right off.

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