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Line 1: {{work}} The Lunar Chronicles, by Marissa Meyer, is a planned quartet of fairy tale adaptations set on a futuristic Earth in conflict with a colony on the moon. The first book, ''Cinder'', is a retelling of "[[Cinderella (~~Literature~~novel)\|Cinderella]]" set in the Far East, with a [[Cyborg]] protagonist, an evil Lunar Queen trying to trap the Prince into marriage, and a planetwide epidemic. The other books - ''Scarlet, Cress'' and ''Winter'' - are planned for 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} ~~=== Tropes: ===~~ * [[The Alleged Car]]: Cinder's "pumpkin", an ancient orange wreck she finds in a junkyard. Line 12: * [[Cinderella Circumstances]] Both Cinder and Cress, and possibly Winter * [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: A prejudice against cyborgs which Cinder's stepmother Adri uses to hurt her. {{quote\| '''Adri:''' "Do your kind even feel love, or is it all just ... programmed?"}} * [[Dances and Balls]]: The Peace Festival. * {{spoiler\|[[Dead Little Sister]]: Peony, the one member of Cinder's adopted family who actually cares for her, dies of letumosis. Dr. Erland's defection to Earth and rebellion against Levana are motivated by her responsibility for his daughter's death.}} Line 18: * [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Cinder. * [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The computer hacker with [[Rapunzel Hair]] who warns Cinder about {{spoiler\|Kai's impending murder}} is implied to be Cress, the heroine of the upcoming third book. * [[Everything's Better ~~With~~with Princesses]]: Princess Selene {{spoiler\|is of course Cinder.}} There is also a Princess Winter, though it is too early to tell whether or not she subverts this. * [[Evil Aunt]]: {{spoiler\|As if her wicked stepfamily wasn't enough, Levana is Cinder's mother's sister. She is likely the one who killed Cinder's parents and is to blame for Cinder being a cyborg.}} * [[The Evil Prince]]: Inverted. Queen Levana was an evil PRINCESS, who brutally murdered her older sister and her family to inherit the throne. Avoided with Prince Kai. Line 25: * [[Fantastic Slur]]: A "shell" is a Lunar with no mind control powers. * [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Cinder's cyborg programming makes her the best mechanic in New Beijing. * [[Getting Smilies Painted Onon Your Soul]]: Queen Levana can pacify an angry mob just by looking at them. * [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Levana. ** You would think that Charrandy, Levana's dead sister and {{spoiler\|Cinder's mother}}, would subvert this, but no, she played this straight. Aside from a story that she chopped off her handmaiden's legs so that she would have more time to make her dresses, she also instigated an infantcide against "shells," Lunars without powers * [[Humans Are Psychic in ~~The~~the Future]]: The "evolved" humans of the Lunar Colony. * [[If We Survive This]]: When Peony falls ill, Cinder promises her that if she gets well, Cinder will introduce her to the Prince at the annual ball. {{spoiler\|Peony dies before that can happen.}} * [[Internalized Categorization]]: Cinder in regards to her cyborg status. * [[Mad Scientist]]: Dr. Dimitri Erland, who is researching a cure for letumosis using drafted cyborg test subjects. {{spoiler\|He's a Lunar keeping his mind control powers in check}}, which has the side effect of making him a little unhinged. * [[Magic Byby Any Other Name]]: The Lunars' "manipulation of bioelectric energy". * [[Nice Hat]]: Dr. Erland's newsboy cap. * [[Never Found the Body]]: Princess Selene, the [[Rightful Heir]] to the Lunar throne, leading to rumors that she is still alive. {{spoiler\|She is- and that would be Cinder}}. Line 49: {{reflist}} [[Category:Lunar Chronicles]] [[Category:~~Pages~~Young ~~needing~~Adult ~~more categories~~Literature]] [[Category:Science Fiction Literature]] [[Category:Lunar Chronicles]] [[Category:Literature]]