The Lunar Chronicles, Part III

Hey all! I know I haven't posted in awhile, so here's a new review! Enjoy!

Cress

She did this.

The attack on Earth.

It was her fault.

She had been cloaking those ships, keeping them hidden from the radars.

She had been the one who let those soldiers--those monsters--onto Earth.

Cress. All alone, on this tiny satellite, was responsible for all those deaths.

This satellite. This prison. It had been a prison for the last seven years. No one else aboard but her and her computers.

Occasionally, Mistress Sybil would visit her, but her company was perhaps worse than loneliness. Mistress was most definitely NOT warm and cuddly.

All she cared about was finding this fugitive for her queen.

But Cress would not tell her. She had a D-COMM chip to a mechanic in New Beijing, because she had to do something, had to warn someone, that the newly-crowned Emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth, Emperor Kaito, had agreed to the marriage alliance with the ruthless Lunar Queen Levana to stop the attacks.

What a fool he was.

Levana would kill him. And she would get exactly what she wanted.

But this mechanic, this fugitive, was also her only link to... him. The dreamy Captain Carswell Thorne. Brown haired and blue-eyed, with a half-smirk that could melt an android's processor in seconds.

Cress was a good hacker, an excellent one; she had programmed many feeds for the Queen. Using those skills, she was easily able to find things on Captain Thorne's life.

Even though everyone called him a criminal, Cress knew better. He was a dashing hero. He had done acts of heroism all his life.

Yes he had done things: he deserted the military at nineteen, stolen a spaceship, and had stolen a collection of Venezuelan dolls worth a LOT.

But he had also done good things. Well, at least, well-intentioned things.

He had been on a class field trip and had let a tiger out of its cage, claiming he looked sad.

He had stolen jewelry from his parents, claiming he was selling it for a charity that gave android assistance to the elderly.

He had a week-long school suspension for a fight with some boys in his grade, claiming that the boys had stolen a portscreen from his friend, and he was only trying to get it back.

But he had a reason. A good reason. Always.

He was a hero.

And he was going to save her.

I love Cress for a lot of reasons, and yes, one of those reasons is Thorne.

Overall, the book doesn't have too much stuff to worry about content-wise. Thorne makes a decent bit of jokes and there are some suggestive comments (I compare him a lot to Han Solo), but from what I can remember he doesn't really cuss, just says "Aces" or "Spades". Jacin, on the other hand, uses a few mild swears.

There are some more comments in the book and there IS still some violence (I don't want to reveal too much, but uh, someone may or may not lose a finger?). I'll get more into detail with that in the fourth book, Winter.

Anyways,

Happy Reading!

--The Book Gobbler