Since I’m new to this wonderful world of book blogging, I’ve been hearing about a ton of authors that I’ve never heard of before. So I decided to start this weekly meme about authors that aren’t necessarily brand new authors, but new to me.
This week I want to talk to you about Marissa Meyer.
One of my first spoken words was “story” (right along with “bath” and “cookie”), my favorite toy as an infant was a soft, squishable book, and I’ve wanted to be a writer since I first realized such a job existed.
When I was fourteen my best friend introduced me to anime and fanfiction—over the years I would complete over forty Sailor Moon fanfics under the penname Alicia Blade. Those so inclined can still find my first stories at fanfiction.net. Writing fanfic turned out to be awesome fun and brought me in contact with an amazing group of fanfiction readers and writers. As Alicia Blade, I also had a novelette, “The Phantom of Linkshire Manor,” published in the gothic romance anthology Bound in Skin (CatsCurious Press, 2007).
When I was sixteen I worked at The Old Spaghetti Factory in Tacoma, Washington, affectionately termed “The Spag.” (Random factoid: This is also the restaurant where my parents met some 25 years before.) I attended Pacific Lutheran University where I sorted mail that came to the dorm, carted tables and chairs around campus, and took writing classes, eventually earning a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Children’s Literature. Knowing I wanted a career in books, I would also go on to receive a Master’s degree in Publishing from Pace University (which you can learn more about here). After graduation, I worked as an editor in Seattle for a while before becoming a freelance typesetter and proofreader.
Then, day of days, someone thought it would be a good idea to give me a book deal, so I became a full-time writer. CINDER is my first novel, though I have an adorable collection of unfinished ones lying around too.
I now live with my husband and our three cats (Calexandria Josephine, Stormus Enormous, and Blackland Rockwell III), who go in and out, in and out, about eight hundred times a day. My favorite non-bookish things include Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, re-watching episodes of Firefly, and playing all manners of dress-up. (Blurb from Author’s Website)
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She’s trying to break out of prison—even though if she succeeds, she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.
In this third book in Marissa Meyer’s bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth.
Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who’s only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s being forced to work for Queen Levana, and she’s just received orders to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is splintered. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price than she’d ever expected. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai, especially the cyborg mechanic. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.
Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend–the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, 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.
Can 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 bestselling Lunar Chronicles series.
So Marissa Meyer isn’t EXACTLY a new author to me. I have been aware of her books for years now. But never found them to be remotely interesting (mostly because I didn’t pay attention to what they were about).
With that being said, please EVERYONE rave about how much you loved this series to encourage me to dive right into these books ASAP. I must admit the fact that all of the books are 392, 464, 560, and 832 pages deters me a little bit! Mostly Winter (832 pages).
I have Cinder and plan to start reading it soon.
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Do you really?! Let me know what you think?
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I have read Cinder, Scarlet, and Heartless. And while her books are long, they are very easy to get by even with the Fantasy world presented. I plan on reading Cress and Winter soon! eeeeek
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Really?! Does heartless have anything to do with the lunar chronicles or is that something completely separate?
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Something completely separate. It’s a queen of hearts retelling
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Oh! That’s pretty awesome!!
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I’m hoping I’ll get Cinder, Scarlet, Cress and Winter this Christmas and I’m so excited to read them ❤
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I’m hoping so too.
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Cinder is great. Scarlet is even better. Cress is the freaking best. I can’t wait to read Winter. Heartless was amazing. All I can do is rave about her books. She is an amazing author. I highly encourage you to read them! 😀
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Really?! That makes me want to go buy the first one now! lol
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She’s an auto-buy author for me! Love it!
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I just bought Cinder a couple of nights ago! I cant wait to read it!
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You’ll love it! I saw it in a used bookstore today, but they also had Winter as a Hardcover, and I only had enough money for one. So I grabbed Winter, lol. It’s a beautiful big book.
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I’m so glad you think I’ll love it! I’m sure I will too. I can only image how huge Winter is. lol I do the ebook thing so I just get to look at how many pages. lol
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Oh, I have been doing the ebook thing bc I have no bookshelves! But every once in awhile, I’ll find a fave and if it’s cheap, I’ll pick it up. It’s not often, lol. But it’s longest book I’ve read in 2016, according to my Goodreads “Your Year In Books.” Lol.
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Winter is super long so I can imagine it was your longest book! Lol
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