Thorne, Iko, and Wolf break into a control room with Thorne disguised as a guard. Wolf scents Scarlet and the group reunites. They snuck into the mining center easily and unrecognized. Scarlet is given a pod key and a knife by Jacin and told to find RM9, Wolf's home Sector, and the two manage to escape with the help of Cress.Ĭinder, Thorne, Iko, and Wolf have made it to RM9, and have taken refuge with Maha, Wolf's mother. He explains the queen's orders, kisses Winter, and then stabs Winter's favorite pet-a wolf named Ryu-all so Winter can escape unharmed, and Queen Levana will believe she is dead. After Queen Levana orders Jacin to murder Winter, Jacin finds Winter in her personal menagerie. When Winter refuses to marry the queen's thaumaturge Aimery, Levana believes she is of no more use. She then places him on Winter's personal guard to "keep her in line" as he does his best to ignore her so as to not reveal his true feelings for her. As a result, she punishes him with lashings, but he lives. Jacin has managed to stay alive by lying about his time on the ship with Cinder and offers the queen enough information about the blocking chip Cinder's adoptive father designed. She then convinces Jacin to keep Cress safe in the guard dormitories. Winter puts on a show and manages to smuggle Cress into a crate without being spotted. She hides behind a crate and is spotted by Winter. They are noticed by Levana as she locks down the ports and they barely make it away, forced to leave Cress behind as she secures their getaway by hacking the security systems. The crew sneaks onto Kai's ship as he heads for Luna for the wedding. Meanwhile, Prince Kai has been sent back to Earth after being kidnapped and recruited by Cinder and is now part of the plan to overthrow Queen Levana. Her relationship with her stepmother is strained at best, especially since Winter is secretly in love with her childhood friend Jacin, who is Winter's royal guard. Despite having scars on her face (suspected to be the work of Winter's evil stepmother, Queen Levana), Princess Winter is known for both her stunning beauty and the kindness she shows towards her people. Princess Winter refuses to use her Lunar gift, the ability to manipulate what others see and do, and thus, has Lunar Sickness, a state of mental illness that causes occasional hallucinations. Together with the cyborg, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that's been raging for far too long.Ĭan Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's national Lunar Chronicles series.
But Winter isn't as weak as Levana believes her to be and she's been undermining her stepmother's wishes for years. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve for her childhood friend-the palace guard, Jacin.
Hardcover, Large Print (January 6th, 2016): $31.Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mark her face.Young Adult Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Adaptations." - Booklist, starred review Product Details Our Snow White stand-in, Winter, is beautiful in spite of facial scars, kind to all she encounters, mentally fragile, and in love with her lowly guard, Jacin. Yes, it's another one of Meyer's very fractured fairy tales, in which she offers a new amalgam of Grimm's fairy tales, science fiction, violence, women's lib, and romance. “In this final book in the Lunar Chronicles, the stepdaughter of the wicked Queen Levana joins Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress to defeat the Queen and restore Cinder-aka Selene-as the rightful ruler of Luna.
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