There must be something wrong with me. Average rating of 4.13 with 225,310 ratings! And out of my 16 friends who rated Cinder, only one other person rated it one star. Well, here's to your favorite unfeeling cynic. 
 Nothing in this book ever got resolved. Those Lunar people--how did they get up to the moon? Why did they evolve? Where did these mysterious Lunar powers come from? And why are Cinder's emotions real, considering she's only about 65% human? Why do Cinder and Kai even like each other? They don't know anything about each other! And from a Chinese girl's perspective, there was nothing vaguely Chinese about New Beijing. Meyer didn't even bother to look up the fact that kimonos are Japanese--not Chinese--before having one of her characters wear one to the ball! I'm not usually one of the nitpicky people, but I'd be lying if I said that didn't piss me off a little. And then Meyer has the nerve to just end it on a cliffhanger? le sigh...