A review by jessalin
Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

4.0

Scarlet and Wolf's story was the most intriguing to me. First off because Wolf is incredibly cute and sort of mysterious. Biggest plot twist ever was finding out that he wasn't a "Loyal Soldier of the Pack" but was instead a "Lunar Secret (?) Operative" or whatever it was exactly.
Scarlet is okay as a protagonist and has that Gryffindor level of stupid where she's brave and definitely someone you want to team up with...but as a Slytherin the Gryffindor-ish reeked from her. But not to say that I disliked her honestly.

Cinder's plot line was fairly boring to me until Iko came back into the story.
Kai is holding it together and I wish he had a stronger support system.

I lowkey can't see how it's fair that the Lunars can control bioelectricity while Earthens have no power. Because of that, I hope that Earthens have *some* type of trick that they can use to make it a more level playing ground or else the Lunars are extremely overpowered.

I was considering three stars, but ultimately decided 4 because I think that the way the fairytales played into the world-building was pretty genius here. Like Ran using glamour or whatnot to look like her grand-mere was a genius way of interpreting the past incarnations of Little Red where the wolf is disguised as the grandma.

It's an odd and small thing but Scarlet wearing a red hoodie took me out of my suspension of disbelief. Despite this being a futuristic world, it just also seems like it wouldn't have hoodies/sweatshirts but I guess that's just me.