Eat, Read, and Be Mommy

I’ve decided not to feel guilty for taking Labor Day off, by the way. Holidays are holidays!

Anyway…yesterday I finished listening to Cress, the third book in Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles. It was–long.

Don’t get me wrong–it was also good. I would have enjoyed it more if it weren’t dystopian sci-fi, two things that aren’t at all my thing, but that’s hardly the book’s fault. (It’s really more of a testament to Meyer’s story that I’m reading it at all.) Cress is Meyer’s Rapunzel character, having been imprisoned in a satellite orbiting earth for 7 years or so by an evil guardian who gained her guardianship by deceit. Over the course of an 18-plus hour audiobook, there are meetings, separations, reunions, and decisions, and by the end we are braced for the inevitable war with Queen Levana. The length wouldn’t have bothered me as a teenager (although sci-fi was still not so much my thing, and I don’t actually recall dystopian being much of a thing at all), and that’s good for my teenage self, because Winter (the fourth book) is 24 HOURS LONG.

That’s right, folks. An entire day. Good thing I listen at closer to double speed!

Anyway. Despite writing fairy tale re-tellings–which I love–in a combination of genres that I so DON’T love, Meyer has kept me interested and invested. If you’ve read them, what do you think?