Killer heels

As mentioned before, I am a sucker for a good cover and I think this one is fabulous. I'm not a wearer of heels but that doesn't mean to say I don't appreciate them and, yes, I was drawn to this book by the killer heel on display.

Then there's the intriguing glimpse of an apparently metallic skeleton inside the leg, and a hint of an old, old story. It also indicates that it is the first of a series ... The Lunar Chronicles. So, does Marissa Meyer make something of the Cinderella story in this book?

Well I think she does. Cinder lives in a future time when vast swathes of earth have been devastated and individual countries no longer exist. She lives with a cruel stepmother who despises her partly because she is a cyborg - part human, part machine.

And yes, there is a handsome prince who asks Cinder to a ball. There is much more too so the author is not just ticking off the appropriate Cinderella boxes. There is a terrible, deadly plague that is killing off the citizens of earth and trouble with the lunar colonists who seem to have amazing mental powers.

Then there's the fact that there seems to be some mystery about just who, and what Cinder is. There's plenty to think about in this book and I found it most enjoyable. Cinder has great character, she is no wimpy princess who relies on others, she is a self-assured mechanic who faces up to her problems.

Roll on the next books in The Lunar Chronicles.

(Cinder by Marissa Meyer is a Puffin paperback and costs £6.99.)

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