This is book three in the Lunar Chronicles, and Marissa Meyer does not disappoint. Cinder, Thorne, Scarlet, and Wolf are plotting to overthrough Queen Levana. They hope to utilize, Cress, a brilliant computer hacker imprisoned in a Lunar satellite. Only catch is she's supposed to be hunting down the Cinder & Co. band of fugitives... 
 Cinder might be my favorite heroine of this series yet. She is so unlike many of the female protagonists populating YA today. She's meek, uncertain, lovestruck, naive. And yet she is so darn relatable and easy to root for. By the end of the novel she stands clearly on her own two feet, and reinforces the notion that being kick-ass in battle is not the only way for a heroine to be a "strong female character." I am also continually impressed at how Meyer weaves traditional fairy tale threads into her futuristic sci-fi saga. Cress's satellite as her "tower," the "fall" that causes Thorne to loose his sight, the fact that his very name hints at the briars that blind our hero in the source material (Rapunzel). The final chapters were gripping and the conflict comes to a fully realized peak by the last page. I also love that this installment introduced us to the protagonist of Book 4, plus who I think may be the love interest.