Cinder

It took me a long time to get around to writing this review. Not because the book wasn't any good. I just didn't have anything really original to say about it. The book is yet another play on the Cinderella theme, this one is science fiction rather than fantasy. Cinder is a cyborg, and because of that, she is lower class. She has a stepmother and stepsisters, there's a handsome prince, and she even has a pumpkin colored car. A lot of these parts are fun. But there is a whole second plotline that could almost have been told without having to rely on the Cinderella tropes. They felt good enough that I think they could have been expanded without the fairy tale parts and been a successful standalone story...