Cinder by Marrisa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles #1)

Judul: Cinder

Karya: Marissa Meyer
Genre: Fantasy, Dystopia, Sci-Fi

Penerbit: Square Fish

Bahasa: bahasa Inggris

Tebal: 390 halaman

Cover: Soft

Tahun Terbit: Januari 2012

ISBN: 978-1250007209

Series/bukan: Series (The Lunar Chronicles #1)

Sinopsis:

The story is set in a futuristic new Beijing, where the various countries have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the moon has been colonized. The protagonist, Linh Cinder is a cyborg that operates a small mechanic’s stall at a local street market in New Beijing, and lives under the guardianship of her stepmother. Early in the book, she meets Prince Kai who requests her to fix a personal android. Cinder’s stepsister falls sick with a plague after accompanying Cinder to a junkyard to collect spare parts for a repair. In anger, Cinder’s stepmother “volunteers” Cinder for plague research. When Cinder is injected with the plague, she shows an immunity to it. Dr Erland, the plague researcher, starts to do research on Cinder’s immunity, which leads to research on Cinder’s unique physiology, her cyborg implants, and eventually to Cinder’s life prior to becoming a cyborg at the age of 11, of which Cinder has no memory of.

At the same time, Prince Kai's father dies of the plague, resulting in the Prince becoming Emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth. There was pressure to create an alliance between the Earth countries and the Moon colony, lead by Queen Levana, who has the ability to manipulate the bioelectricity of people around her and make them see what she wants them to see. The proposed alliance is through Prince Kai marrying Queen Levana, however, Prince Kai wants to thwart this plan by finding someone else to marry first. He is also searching for information regarding the people of the lunar colony, which is what his personal android was looking for when it broke.

The story culminates with an annual ball, where secrets are discovered and characters have to make a decision on their future.

Cinder ini merupakan buku pertama dari The Lunar Chronicles series! Bercerita tentang seorang gadis yang merupakan cyborg (setengah manusia setengah robot) yang bernama Linh-Cinder. Dia adalah mekanik yang paling top di New-Beijing. Dia diadopsi oleh seorang pria yang kemudian meninggal, Cinder pun tinggal dengan istri sang pria (ibu tiri) dan kedua saudari tiri nya. Pearl dan Peony. 

Cerita Cinder memang diadopsi dari fairytale yang udah gak asing lagi, Cinderella! Namun ceritanya bener-bener beda dan unik banget. Dan of course, di cerita ini tetep ada sang pangeran yang namanya Prince Kaito / Kai. And tetep ada "The Ball" atau acara dansanya walau Cinder yang dibuku ini tidak berminat datang.

Selain itu dibuku ini juga ada villain yang bener-bener bikin greget yaitu Queen Levana, ratu dari satelit kita, Bulan (Luna). Queen Levana ini antagonis dan dia ingin menguasai both the earth and the luna. Sampe dia tega ngebunuh kakaknya (Queen Channary) dan keponakannya (Princess Selene) demi mendapatkan gelar Queen of Luna. Dan berencana menikahi Kai supaya dia bisa nguasai bumi juga.

Dan di endingnya itu terungkap sesuatu yang benar-benar akan merubah hidup Cinder yang tadinya tidak diterima baik di bumi dan di bulan menjadi seseorang yang sangat berharga untuk bumi dan bulan.

Buat kalian yang suka sama genre Dystopian-YA-Romance-SciFi, aku 100% recommend buku ini. Buku ini juga ada lanjutan/series nya yaitu Scarlet dan Cress. Buku keempat nya "Winter" baru akan diliris 10 November 2015 nanti!

Yang udah penasaran yuk langsung cari tau tentang cinder dan baca bukunya!

--Juliette Ferrars