Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
This story picks up after Dr Erland, a lunar who has been working at New Beijing at the same time searching for Princess Selene, leaves Cinder at her cell. There are two stories in this book. The story of Scarlet searching for her grandmother and Cinder escaping and looking for Michelle Benoit, Scarlet’s grandmother.
Let’s start with Scarlet’s story. Her mother went missing and everybody’s
saying she just left coz she’s crazy.
Which of course she didn’t believe.
On one of her deliveries,
Scarlet’s family owns a farm that grows the best tomatoes, she met Wolf,
a handsome guy with a dangerous aura about him.
Second thing I liked about this story,
first was that Cinder and Kai are still in the story, is that Wolf is
not a warewolf. He doesn’t turn into a
warewolf. He’s strong, he fights like an animal and he
howls but does not turn into a wolf.
Except for Infernal Devices and Mortal Instruments, I normally don’t
like warewolves. Especially those that
has love triangles between them, humans
and vampires. Oh and those between vampires and warewolves. I can handle law of physics being broken but
pheromones, not.
Scarlet comes home seeing his dad, who she hasn’t seen for 5
years, trashing their house. He says
he’s looking for something his mom, Scarlet’s grandmother was hiding. He was also abducted like gran-mere but they
let him go with the promise to bring back whatever that as that she was hiding.
He said that the people who took them had a tattoo with letters and numbers on them,
LSOP and some numbers. A tattoo that
Wolf had and made Scarlet hunt him down. LSOP, Loyal Soldier to the Order of
the Pact. Wolf was a part of it but he
left. LSOP a lunars working for Queen
Levana and they took Scarlet’s grandmother coz they think that she knows where
Cinder is. Cinder was under the care of
Michelle Benoit for several years before she gave her to Mr. Linh. Wolf knew they took gran-mere to Paris so he and
Scarlet went there to get her. The
travel there made me go back a bit to Divergent with the jumping in and out of
trains. As soon as they got to the Opera
house in Paris, Wolf hands Scarlet over to the
thaumaturge Jael, the one who controls their pact. Wolf told her he’d help and they even kissed
on the train, Scarlet felt betrayed. And worse, they no longer needed gran-mere
coz the mission to retrieve Princess
Selene but still kept her just because she can’t be glamoured.
Scarlet found gran-mere the day the pact was ordered to do
an attack on Paris. Wolf gave her an ID chip that helped her get out of her
cell. She tried to escape with her
grandmother but failed coz her grandmother couldn’t move and Ran, Wolf’s
brother was there stopping them. At this
part the lines “grandma, what big teeth you have” started running through my
head coz I knew someone would end up dead.
Like the story of little red riding hood, grandma was killed by a wolf,
a wolfish lunar, Ran. After he was done with gran-mere, he went for Scarlet but
Wolf came back saying “She is mine”.
Scarlet escaped but Wolf caught up with her. They were having a moment but he suddenly
fell. Cinder shot him with a
tranquilizer.
Now Cinder’s part.
She escaped from prison and went out of Earth with the help of Captain
Thorpe. It was like watching a TV series
with escaping convicts. Going thru air
vents, dirty sewers but more like a funnier version coz of Thorpe. He’s not really a captain. He was a lieutenant pilot who stole an
American hover among other things. He
feels like he is God’s gift to women.
He’s so arrogantly funny and so DOM-ish. Haha. I can totally feel cinder
when she rolls her eyes on him. I would too.
Oh wait, Iko is a ship now. Cinder used her chip to be the
auto-control for their ship. She was
totally unhappy at first, well, I guess she’d still rather be in an escort
android’s body but she’s not complaining, not as much anyway. Hehe. After they
went to the Benoit farm and finding the capsule that used to hold Princess
Selene for a few years, Cinder decided to go to Paris to look for Michelle
Benoit. And that’s where they met Scarlet, underneath Wolf’s tranquilized
body.
Wait I almost forgot, Prince Kai is marrying Queen
Levana. She lauched attacks on cities
around the world and Kai offered marriage to make her stop. She’s a perv!
I know I didn’t give justice to this story in my retelling,
have I ever? I tried but it’s hard. So much good stuff going on. I
realized after reading this that I’m hooked to the Lunar Chronicles as badly as
I got hooked on Maguire’s Wicked. Like
they’re the real fairy tale and not an adaptation of it. One thing I kept thinking about midway of the
story was Scarlet being part Lunar. Is she? She is, right? Her grandmother
didn’t say that Logan Tanner was her grandfather but she did say he’d be proud
of her. Why would he be proud of her if they’re not related, right? So, would
she have power’s too? I wish she would so she can take care of Sybil while
Cinder takes care of the ugly queen! Wait, is Dr. Tanner really lunar? Can
Earthen’s survive in the moon? Argh, I’m making my head hurt!!!
I guess we’ll all find out next year. See you in Cress.
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