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Cress

Cress

DystopianScience Fiction
Pages
552
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

Cinder and Thorne are fugitives, joined by Scarlet and Wolf, as they plan to overthrow the tyrannical Queen Levana. Their only hope is Cress, a hacker imprisoned on a satellite, who is ordered to hunt them down. A rescue attempt goes wrong, separating the group and forcing Cress to confront her newfound freedom and its steep cost. With Levana determined to marry Emperor Kai, these unlikely heroes might be Earth's last chance.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

AdventurousTenseHopefulInspiring
Enemies to LoversQuestFound FamilyForced Proximity

Genres

Dystopian Science Fiction Space Opera Young Adult YA Adventure

About the author

M
Marissa Meyer

Marissa Meyer is an American writer of young adult fiction, best known for The Lunar Chronicles, a series retelling classic fairy tales that began with her 2012 debut novel, Cinder, and continued through Scarlet, Cress and Winter. She grew up in Tacoma, Washington, earned a BA in creative writing and children's literature from Pacific Lutheran University, and holds an MA in publishing from Pace University. She worked as a book editor and as a freelance typesetter and proofreader before writing f...

Characters

Crescent Moon "Cress" DarnelProtagonist
Linh CinderProtagonist
Captain Carswell ThorneProtagonist

A discharged Rampion pilot who helps Cinder's group; escapes with Cress after her rescue attempt.

Queen LevanaAntagonist
Iko (The Lunar Chronicles)Supporting

Cinder's android companion, installed into a spacecraft body, who accompanies the crew through the book.

All characters in Cress

Frequently asked questions

  • Can I read this book without reading the previous ones in the series?

    The narrative is deeply interconnected with the preceding installments, and reading them in the order they were published is essential to understanding the character development and the overarching plot. Skipping the earlier books will likely lead to confusion regarding the established world and the relationships between the core group of characters.

  • Did the author base the characters of Thorne and Cress on the movie Tangled?

    The author has confirmed that the similarities between these characters and those in the film were coincidental, as she had already completed the first draft of this book before the movie was released.

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