Winter (Lunar Chronicles, #4)

by Marissa Meyer

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Winter is a solid and very satisfying end to the series. I liked that it was a big book; that Meyer took her time with the characters and with how the plot played out.

Jacin and Winter were very good additions to the core cast and I liked how they all kept getting mixed and matched in the different scenes. It deepened each character by seeing them from a slightly different perspective. I also liked how she tumbled the third person narrator through the different characters so we got to know each of them better through their thoughts and reactions.

Scarlet (the character) is still not my favorite. At times (with the wolves) she was fierce and interesting. And at other times she was shortsighted and clung to misguided conclusions (mostly in how she treated Winter) which was annoying. I wanted more Wolf in the story, except I hated what happened to him (and that it couldn't be undone) and so maybe more Wolf would have made things worse. I also could have used more Jacin in the second half (third?). I forgive him the ridiculous spelling of his name because he was awesome. Cinder was my second not-favorite character but I think I liked her better in this book because she had less brooding time and so much to do. Still don't like her as much as Cress and Winter and the guys, and I would have liked more Cress.

All that being said, though, I think the story did a good job of focusing on the characters moving the story which kept the momentum up nicely. And yet it didn't feel rushed because she spent time in some in between scenes. It created a comforting balance of quiet character moments in the midst of an accelerating plot.

I also liked how, like Cress, the plot surprised me and kept me engaged with the characters and had a very nice fairy tale aspect in that, no matter how bad things got, it worked out well (except for poor Wolf!).