This review was originally posted on http://www.rubysreads.com. 
 I'd like, first of all, to tell you that I loaned this book to my dad before I read it. When he gave it back to me he said, "I didn't get what the title was in reference to until the last third of the book." There's really no point to this anecdote except that it made me laugh and I thought it might do the same for you. 
 I'll be honest with you, I go through phases with Dystopians. Sometimes I really like them. At other times, I only like them when they have no magical element. Then there's the phase where I think if I never read another one, it'll be too soon. Cinder has three strong things going for it: 
 It's a fairytale retelling. 
 It features a colony on the MOON. 
 Cyborgs. 
 When I was a child, one of my favorite books was This Place Has No Atmosphere by Paula Danziger. In a nutshell, the book is about a teenage girl forced to move to the moon. Ever since then, I've been a fan of books that have moon colonies. We don't make it to the moon in Cinder, but I've got my fingers crossed for further installments. 
 Oh, wait--wasn't I trying to review Cinder? Yeah, I think I was. Cinder didn't grab me at first. I think it wasn't until I was about a quarter of the way into the story that I really got into the narrative. From there, I was hooked. What's fun about fairytale retellings is that you already know the basic plot, and even most of the characters. Since you do, the game becomes discovering how the author interprets the fairytale. 
 Frankly, I loved Cinder. All the elements of the Cinderella tale tumble and rolled together with a bit of Star Trek and a smidge of This Place Has No Atmosphere. It's no wonder that it appealed to me. It's unique world-building on top of great storytelling. The characters are complex and refreshing interpretations of characters that are practically older than time. There were a few predictable elements I'm perfectly comfortable overlooking, but on the whole this is a book I'd recommend to almost anyone, from Cinderella fans to Dystopian ones. Count me among the hordes looking forward to Scarlet when it comes out in 2013.