Cinder’s personal tenacity and skill, as well as Meyer’s deft application of "Cinderella" nuggets-Cinder’s ill-fitting prosthetic foot (loseable on palace steps) a rusting, obsolete car colored pumpkin-orange-are riveting. This doctor drafts cyborgs as expendable test subjects none survive. But then the heart-thumpingly cute prince approaches Cinder’s business booth as a customer, starting a chain of events that links her inextricably with the prince and with a palace doctor who’s researching letumosis vaccines. Her two sisters will attend Prince Kai’s ball wearing elegant gowns Cinder, hated because she’s a cyborg, won’t be going. Long after World War IV, with a plague called letumosis ravaging all six Earthen countries, teenage Cinder spends her days in New Beijing doing mechanical repairs to earn money for her selfish adoptive mother.
Although it packs in more genres than comfortably fit, this series opener and debut offers a high coolness factor by rewriting Cinderella as a kickass mechanic in a plague-ridden future.
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