![]() ![]() He ends up a member of Cinder’s unlikely entourage.Ĭharleson – Another Lunar noble, son to Annotel.ĭmitiri – A doctor at the royal labs in New Beijing. Winter – A Lunar princess, Meyer’s version of Snow White – and the heroine of Book Five in the series, set for release in November 2015.Ĭarswell – A former member of the US Republic military, the dashing Carswell Thorne has promoted himself to captain of his stolen ship, the Rampion. She’s the only one who can overthrow Levana – except everyone believes she died in a fire as a child. Selene – Channary’s daughter, the lost princess and rightful heir to the Lunar throne. Scarlet – Meyer’s Little Red Riding Hood, a farm girl from Rieux, France, whose grandmother has been hiding some world-changing secrets. Sacha – Neighbor to Cinder in the New Beijing marketplace. Priya – A palace official in New Beijing. Peony is a few years younger than Cinder, and her faithful friend. Peony – Many Cinderella stories make the younger stepsister a more sympathetic character, and that’s true here. Pearl – One of Cinder’s stepsisters, the wicked one. She’s not afraid of wolves in Meyer’s version. Michelle – Scarlet’s grand-mere, a former pilot who flew diplomatic missions between Earth and Luna in her younger days. Levana – The evil queen, younger sister of Channary and aunt to the lost princess Selene. Jina – A member of a desert caravan who discovers Cress when she falls to Earth. ![]() Iko – Cinder’s loyal sidekick, an android with keen fashion sense. In Meyer’s novel, the moon has been colonized, long enough that residents, called Lunars, have evolved different abilities.Ĭinder – Saved from a horrible accident as a child, Cinder is a part-cyborg mechanic – and thus considered less-than-human.Ĭrescent Moon – A famous lullaby from Luna, and the name of Meyer’s Rapunzel character.Ĭress – Crescent Moon prefers to answer to Cress, and she grows up to be a skilled computer hacker, living alone in the ultimate space age tower – a space station.Įmilie – A friend to Scarlet, in the small town of Rieux.įateen – A doctor in the royal labs of New Beijing. Just like Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Mortal Instruments, the names of heroes and villains alike make for a fascinating glimpse of what could be, if our world were different – or will be in the future.Īdri – Cinder’s wicked stepmother, one of the few characters that remains almost completely unchanged from the original telling to Meyer’s reimaginingĬhannary – A former Lunar Queen. Meyer’s world-building included choosing dozens of names – new names for the familiar fairytale figures, and names for new characters she created, too. Two more books in the series are planned, featuring the Evil Queen and Snow White – and hopefully a happy ever after for all of our favorite characters from the first three novels.īecause they may be science fiction, but they’re still fairy tales. Plus, Cinder leads neatly to a re-imagining of Little Red Riding Hood, and then Rapunzel. Meyer manages to weave in nearly all the elements of the familiar tale – wicked stepmother, pumpkin carriage, handsome prince – in her wild new world. There’s plague and the threat of war, but happily, her Cinderella will become a true heroine. Now Marissa Meyer has written a completely different Cinderella story, transporting her from a castle-filled past to the city of New Beijing, in an indefinite – and rather terrifying – future. Drew Barrymore made a version that mixed in Leonardo da Vinci. ![]() Hilary Duff turned it into a teen movie, with Chad Michael Murray as Prince Charming. Retellings galore have updated and twisted the tale. During the royal ball, a glass slipper is lost, left behind by a mysterious girl who vanishes into the night. There’s a wicked stepmother and a prince. ![]()
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