This book was infinitely better than the first! 
 I gave Cinder 4 stars because I thought the storyline was unique (despite the obvious inspiration) and was excited/intrigued to see where Meyer would go with the series. However, deep down, and the more I thought about it, I found the first book to be rather predictable while reading and thought the writing lacked a little something. Willing to ignore it because the story piqued my interest. 
 In Scarlet, the story becomes more developed, more characters are introduced, and we see where some of the more open-ended scenarios in Book One begin to make sense. While reading, I did not feel the story was going in an obvious direction and was able to just allow it to take me where it wanted to take me. Book Two definitely made me a bigger fan and more likely to recommend this series to others!