She has seen how Levana's use of 'glamour' (an illusion to cause the user to look more beautiful) has turned her into a heartless tyrant. She has lived on Luna in the palace and has been raised by her stepmother. Winter (based on Snow White) is Queen Levana's stepdaughter. Winter is the fourth and final book in The Lunar Chronicles and fifth chronologically. Channary's reign is short-lived, and with Channary's ascension, Levana begins an unexpected downward spiral to becoming heartless when it comes to anything but her people. After her parents are murdered by a Lunar assassin (a shell), Levana's sister, Channary, is set to become queen. Levana has grown up in a poisonous household and has a cruel older sister who has been mentally and physically abusive to her throughout her entire life. Fairest begins when Levana is around 15 years old and covers about ten years of her life, ending about a decade before Cinder is set. įairest is a prequel to the other books in the series, telling the backstory and past of Queen Levana (based on the Evil Queen from Snow White). All the while, the plague has begun to mutate and even the Lunars are not safe.įairest is the novella book in The Lunar Chronicles and first chronologically. As complications arise and the crew is separated, they must do everything they can to prevent a royal wedding putting Earth into Queen Levana's hands. Living alone on a satellite and harboring an enormous crush on Carswell Thorne, she secretly works to sabotage the wicked Lunar queen, and eventually, Cress teams up with Cinder and becomes entangled in her plot to save Earth. Ĭrescent Moon, or 'Cress' Darnel (based on Rapunzel), is an imprisoned shell (a Lunar without special abilities and a Lunar that cannot be affected by mind manipulation) working with Sybil to help Lunar ships. An animated feature film adaptation, to be produced by Locksmith Animation, was announced in 2019.Ĭress is the third book in The Lunar Chronicles and fourth chronologically. Set in a futuristic world inhabited by various species and creatures, tensions are rising between Earth and its former colony Luna, while both attempt to manage an ongoing pandemic. Each book entails a science fictional twist on a classic fairy tale, including Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White. The Lunar Chronicles is a series of four young adult science fiction fantasy novels, a novella and a short story collection written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Feiwel & Friends.

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