My opinion of Levana from this book was a little like this: But I really enjoyed the insight into her mind and her motivations as they led to the point where we met her first, as she engineers a political marriage to Kai. Levana isn’t a sympathetic character in any way, shape or form.

It, however, was certainly more than enough to give an insight into Levana’s strange and twisted mind, as well as her bizarre upbringing. This book was really short – almost a novella, rather than a novel, at only 256 pages. But I can understand why it’s placed as #3.5 as it’s really only relevant after Cress.įairest tells the backstory of Queen Levana, the Lunar queen who has been prowling around in the background of the first three books, attempting to, basically, take over the world. I think it’s really better placed as #0.4, as it happens almost entirely before Cinder. Although that is when I read it – between Cress and Winter – I would disagree with its numbering. Marissa Meyer spins yet another unforgettable tale about love and war, deceit and death.įairest, on GoodReads, is marked up as #3.5. But long before she crossed paths with Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress, Levana lived a very different story – a story that has never been told. In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told.įans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power. In any case, there are three more books to be briefly discussed in the series! I realise that this is just prevarication, but I don’t really want duplicates on a single list. I might reassign Cress as the book based on the fairy tale, and then each book fulfils one criterion. I feel a bit guilty that either Cinder or Winter has ticked off two categories, though. Combined with ‘a book based on a fairy tale’, that was four categories for six books, which is really not bad at all. I’ve actually managed to tick a few categories off the PopSugar challenge by using The Lunar Chronicles – Fairest and Winter/Cinder have fulfilled ‘a book and its prequel’ while Winter ticked off ‘a book more than 600 pages’ and Scarlet was ‘a book set in Europe’.

Glitches by marissa meyer