I remember when I stopped trying to keep up with my children's reading. It was when I was caught listening to a Percy Jackson audiobook one night to preview it for my seven-year-old while my daughter was supposed to be asleep. She padded out in her pjs, bleary-eyed, and asked, "Mommy? What are you listening to?" 
 I told her, and when she asked if she could read the books, too, I couldn't think of any reason not to let her. I tried to read each of the books before she did so I could always screen them for things that might be confusing or problematic or uncomfortable for her to read (or for me to have her read), but she read so fast, I soon gave up. 
 Recently, though, I'm realizing that I've almost completely lost touch with what my kids are reading, at least outside of what we read together, and I decided to start playing catch-up. So I asked my kids what I should read first of the many series they're reading right now: Wings of Fire, Fablehaven, The Last Dragon Chronicles, or The Lunar Chronicles. 
 "Read Cinder first," they agreed, so I read Cinder first. 
 I'm not a fan of YA, but this novel surpassed my admittedly low expectations. It's a quick-reading, clever re-envisioning of the Cinderella tale. I have a personal grudge against high heels so I dislike the cover with the stiletto heel that Cinder never wears in the book (was that a spoiler?), and there are a couple of incorrect word usages that the editor should have caught ("council" when it should be "counsel", "imminent" when Meyer means "imperative"), but overall I enjoyed reading this novel and hope that my library has Scarlet on their digital catalog so I can start on it without waiting for the library to open tomorrow morning.