Hi everyone.
I'm Rincey and this is Rincey Reads.
Today I want to talk to you guys about FAIREST
by Marissa Meyer.
This is part of the Lunar Chronicles series,
which is CINDER, SCARLET, and CRESS.
And WINTER, which is the final book in the
series, is coming out this fall.
This is a novella in the series.
It's not like a full blown novel.
It only comes out to around 220 pages, I believe.
And it's listed on Goodreads as like 3.5,
so it's not meant to be a full blown story.
But this is a prequel that follows Queen Levana
before she becomes Queen Levana.
So you are seeing her life, her growing up
a little bit, and how she came to have the
position that she currently does in the world
that we know.
I love this series and I thoroughly enjoyed
this book.
I really enjoy when series whether it be in
book form or TV shows or movie form, take
the villain and provide their backstory, provide
an explanation for how they got to where they
are.
Um.
I think it's very easy to hate the villainous
characters for obvious reasons, they're the
villainous character.
But I like when you can kind of understand
their perspective a little bit better.
So you see a little bit about Levana's upbringing.
You kind of understand where she's coming
from when it comes to all of the horrible
things that she does.
But at the same time, I really like the fact
that Marissa Meyer doesn't completely write
off everything that Levana has done and still
leaves her as the villainous character.
Um.
You do have some sympathy for her because
you see how she was either mistreated or ignored
or those type of things.
But, at the same time, Levana is very much
making her own bad choices that have just
led to more bad choices that have led to where
she is now.
One thing that I thought was really interesting
was there is this character in the book who
Levana is basically in love with and she kind
of just forces the man to fall in love with
her.
And the man continually tries to explain how
this isn't real love and you can't like force
love and things like that.
And despite the fact that there's this person
in her life who's trying to provide correction
and, uh, provide sort of this opportunity
for Levana to become a better person, she
just doesn't want to take it.
She just continues to think that her way is
the right way.
And so I like that Marissa Meyer added that
fact in because it shows how messed up she
is, despite the fact that she's had messed
up things happen to her, she also just makes
a lot of poor decisions herself.
I do wish this book was a little bit longer
and I do wish that we had gotten more about
her life.
This book does jump around in time, not jump
around, but it goes chronologically, but you
get sort of like glimpses at different points
in Levana's life, which is nice because you
do get to see the progression from her as
a child to her as the current queen that we
know her as.
But I kind of just wish this book was a little
bit longer because I feel like there's so
much more story that could be explored with
this character.
I did also really like how this book incorporated
what we know about the previous books and
what we know is going to be coming up in the
final book.
So there are little hints and little mentions
to things that have happened already and things
that are about to happen.
So if you haven't read this series yet, uh,
don't read this book.
I think it is best to read these books in
publication order.
But I think this was a very nice lead up to
the final book.
It provides some background that we probably
might not have gotten if we just read the
final book.
If you're someone who likes the Lunar Chronicles
series, I definitely recommend that this is
worth picking up.
One of the things that sucks is that they
seem to be marketing this as if it is a full-length
novel and it's not.
And I think the price point is the same as
a full length YA hardcover novel, which sucks.
I got my copy from the library.
Um.
And I probably will buy the hardcover edition
of it eventually, to go with my other hardcovers
of the books in this series.
Um.
But it does kind of suck that this is a novella
and it's not really priced or marketed as
a novella.
Publishing houses guys.
So yeah, I definitely recommend this book
if you like the Lunar Chronicles, I gave it
a 4 out of 5 stars.
I thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you've read this book, feel free to leave
a comment down below letting me know what
you guys thought of it.
I know there is some people out there who
had slightly more mixed feelings on it.
I think I went in with pretty low expectations,
partially because I knew it was a novella,
partially because I was getting it from the
library, so I didn't have any money invested
into it.
Or if you have any questions about this book
or the series in general, feel free to leave
that down in the comments section as well.
I'll also have links in the description to
my reviews of the other books in the series
in case you guys haven't seen those already
you can always check that out.
So yeah, that's all I have for now and thanks
for watching.
