Thanks to Holly Kench for putting me on to this YA series! Cinder is a unique play on the fairytale Cinderella, and set in a futuristic Beijing with humans, cyborgs, aliens, and a lot of cool technology.
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1) by Marissa Meyer
Blurb:
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
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