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Cress (The Lunar Chronicles, #3)
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bookshelves: owned, fairytale, slump-worthy, favorites-2015, retelling, fantasy, sci-fi, ya, recommend, 4-and-a-half-stars, reread, reviewed
Oct 19, 2018
bookshelves: owned, fairytale, slump-worthy, favorites-2015, retelling, fantasy, sci-fi, ya, recommend, 4-and-a-half-stars, reread, reviewed
Read 2 times. Last read October 19, 2018 to October 22, 2018.
MY LONGEST YEAH BOI EVER.
This review only really needs to be two sentences long. Here are those sentences:
1) This book has Cress.
2) This book has Thorne.
End review.
As everyone knows because I never shut up about it for even one second, I don’t love characters very often. It just takes a lot for me to be Interested. But these two...these two.
I am a currently living human being (hard as that may be to believe), and that means I love heists. If there is a better trope than the heist plotline, I know not of it, and honestly I don’t care to know it because I may be overwhelmed by Goodness. Heists are the most fun, and roughly 45 to 67 percent of that high level of fun-ness is due to the dope character archetypes. RAGTAG GROUPS OF FUN-LOVING, THIEVING RUFFIANS.
This seemingly unrelated paragraph has a point, and the point is this: Both Cress and Thorne are archetypes straight out of a heist.
Cress is The Hacker. Hackers are so fun and ridiculous that I firmly believe they should exist in every story ever. This includes historical fiction, because what could be more fun and ridiculous than that? Picture your favorite pioneer-West story or medieval royalty romance, except with a hacker. Try to tell me that isn’t both ridiculous and fun.
You can’t.
Thorne is The Charming Rogue. This is a trope that doesn’t always work for me, because even though it is a classic heist archetype, it is also a classic Cringey YA archetype. And since I’m usually reading cringey YA, that’s the feeling that comes through.
BUT NOT THIS TIME. Because this time, we have a hacker.
I myself can’t picture anything much more fun than well-executed iterations of The Hacker and The Rogue falling in love. Except if there was a heist involved.
But that’d just be greedy.
Bottom line: I simply don’t care about anything about this book besides Cress And Thorne. Luckily those two are enough in and of themselves.
RIDICULOUS AND FUN.
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pre-review
honestly not sure whether I'd rather marry Cress or Thorne. so I'll settle for them marrying each other
review to come / 4.5 stars
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currently-reading updates
I AM READY FOR JOY AND HIJINKS.
and this was my favorite book in the series when I first read them, so if I do not get joy and hijinks I will be forced to burn everything to the ground.
This review only really needs to be two sentences long. Here are those sentences:
1) This book has Cress.
2) This book has Thorne.
End review.
As everyone knows because I never shut up about it for even one second, I don’t love characters very often. It just takes a lot for me to be Interested. But these two...these two.
I am a currently living human being (hard as that may be to believe), and that means I love heists. If there is a better trope than the heist plotline, I know not of it, and honestly I don’t care to know it because I may be overwhelmed by Goodness. Heists are the most fun, and roughly 45 to 67 percent of that high level of fun-ness is due to the dope character archetypes. RAGTAG GROUPS OF FUN-LOVING, THIEVING RUFFIANS.
This seemingly unrelated paragraph has a point, and the point is this: Both Cress and Thorne are archetypes straight out of a heist.
Cress is The Hacker. Hackers are so fun and ridiculous that I firmly believe they should exist in every story ever. This includes historical fiction, because what could be more fun and ridiculous than that? Picture your favorite pioneer-West story or medieval royalty romance, except with a hacker. Try to tell me that isn’t both ridiculous and fun.
You can’t.
Thorne is The Charming Rogue. This is a trope that doesn’t always work for me, because even though it is a classic heist archetype, it is also a classic Cringey YA archetype. And since I’m usually reading cringey YA, that’s the feeling that comes through.
BUT NOT THIS TIME. Because this time, we have a hacker.
I myself can’t picture anything much more fun than well-executed iterations of The Hacker and The Rogue falling in love. Except if there was a heist involved.
But that’d just be greedy.
Bottom line: I simply don’t care about anything about this book besides Cress And Thorne. Luckily those two are enough in and of themselves.
RIDICULOUS AND FUN.
---------
pre-review
honestly not sure whether I'd rather marry Cress or Thorne. so I'll settle for them marrying each other
review to come / 4.5 stars
---------
currently-reading updates
I AM READY FOR JOY AND HIJINKS.
and this was my favorite book in the series when I first read them, so if I do not get joy and hijinks I will be forced to burn everything to the ground.
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Reading Progress
July 29, 2015
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August 9, 2015
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Started Reading
August 11, 2015
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64.67%
"cinder is Pissing Me Off she can't do anything!!! oh my god just use a little bit of mind control sometimes it's not going to kill you PLEASE GO SAVE THE WORLD NOW"
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August 12, 2015
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Finished Reading
October 19, 2018
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Started Reading
October 22, 2018
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Finished Reading
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Oct 23, 2018 01:58AM
Cress has been so enjoyable for me so far. I’m five chapters away from the end and I am SCREAMING
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Lauren 🥀 wrote: "Cress has been so enjoyable for me so far. I’m five chapters away from the end and I am SCREAMING"this book was always my favorite in the series and it STILL IS! joy
yess! this book is my favorite too!
I know this question is not related to the book and stuff but I'm just being my curious self. Did you read Nevernight and Godsgrave?
Lien wrote: "I know this question is not related to the book and stuff but I'm just being my curious self. Did you read Nevernight and Godsgrave?"i just read Nevernight and i hated every second of it!
madison wrote: "yess! this book is my favorite too!"it is the star. the standout. the m a s t e r p i e c e
Great review❤️❤️ cress and thorn will always be my favourite couple from the lunar chronicles 🖤
Derryn wrote: "Great review❤️❤️ cress and thorn will always be my favourite couple from the lunar chronicles 🖤"they are the all stars
Sravani wrote: "1)It has Cress2)It has Thorne
That is literally the most convincing part of the whole review."
really the only statement in it that matters
I just want to say, everything about this review is exactly how I felt.
I heard something on the internet that will rock your world. SOOOOO basically i don’t know if this is true or not but...I read that a 4 part series of these books will come to Netflix!!!! I don’t know if this is true. Have you heard anything yourself? They say the release date is June 9 2021...
I SOOOOO need to read The Lunar Chronicles!!! Quick question: Have you read Six of Crows?? Because based off of the fact that you liked this and in your review what you said you liked about it, I think you would LOVE SoC!
I just checked and you have, and based off of the stars, it seems you liked those, so YAY!!
i feel very alone in my mild dislike towards cress and thorne individually
This is my favourite in the series too.
angie wrote: "I just want to say, everything about this review is exactly how I felt."yay!!!
Kylie wrote: "I heard something on the internet that will rock your world. SOOOOO basically i don’t know if this is true or not but...I read that a 4 part series of these books will come to Netflix!!!! I don’t k..."i haven't heard anything!
That Girl Audrey wrote: "I just checked and you have, and based off of the stars, it seems you liked those, so YAY!!"i love six of crows! my fav YA
rads wrote: "i feel very alone in my mild dislike towards cress and thorne individually"i don't want to tell you to keep feeling alone, but
Rachel wrote: "This is my favourite in the series too."the most fun!!
Cress and Thorn are my favorite ship in the entire series 😍 my friends tell me otherwise, but I block them out 😎
Von wrote: "Cress and Thorn are my favorite ship in the entire series 😍 my friends tell me otherwise, but I block them out 😎"the only ship worth shipping
Cress and Thorne :)))
OMG! Emma with a hacker!!!!!!!! That's too funny! Damn. Hackers make everything better
I never shut up about how much I love Cress, to the point where my family has no ideas what the heck I'm gushing about and are genuinely concerned for me. Cress made this series for me, and I mean it. I have never ever cared about a bookish ship until Cresswell. Now I'm making my mom read The Lunar Chronicles, hopefully she doesn't give up on the first 2 books because they are a bit of a slog.
