Full review at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books 
 Well, it's been a long road involving five books, but with the latest installment, Winter, The Lunar Chronicles has come to a bloody yet satisfying conclusion. There's at least one more book on the way, Stars Above, which will be a collection of short stories, but in Winter the main narrative of the series is wrapped up with lots of action, a startling amount of gore, and happy endings for most of the main characters. 
 One thing I appreciate about the series is its matter-of-fact approach to diversity. Cinder and Kai are Chinese, Scarlet is French, Wolf is described as "olive skinned" and his actual name is Ze'ev, which is a Hebrew name (that means 'wolf'). So many futuristic books default to Caucasian/Christian mode with their characters, but this series takes a more global and realistic approach. Winter is Black, which is particularly delightful since she's supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the history of ever. Suck it, racist beauty standards. The one thing I wish is that at least one of the couples were m/m or f/f. It would have fit in well with the series' commitment to tweaking fairytale set-ups and making them something new. 
 Winter is written in such a way that any review of the book is basically a review of the series. Now that it's over, I feel that the series as a whole was more than the sum of its parts (the individual books) although the parts were, in their own way, pretty wonderful. Winter is weirdly slow at times and madly rushed in others, but it does a great job of pulling together all the parts of a complicated story. 
 - Carrie S.