Summer Reading Response - Cress

          One of the greatest books that I have ever truly enjoyed as a reader was Cress. Cress is the third installment in "The Lunar Chronicles" series. The novel, like its predecessors, introduces yet another new main character with origins taken from a fairytale: Cress. Cress's inspiration comes from the fairytale of Rapunzel. Cress herself exhibits many of the same traits as Rapunzel, and even has a similar background, at least in a sense. Immediately, however, the reader is introduced to her and given many powerful first impressions. In the beginning, she comes off as a timid and playful girl who delves too deep into her own imagination sometimes. Soon, though, she starts to undergo character evolutions that will ultimately lead to her major roles in the plot of the series as a whole.

          As for the novel, it digs a little deeper into the backgrounds of certain characters and their past. It helps identify many of the mysteries and issues that the previous books had formed and answered many of the long-lasting questions that had been introduced even at the very beginning of the series. Cress put even more personality into the original characters, and it crafted some of the most memorable new ones. It paved the road for the conclusion of the series, and it filled in the potholes of the plot. Cress exemplifies in stunning performance the ideal model of what Marissa Meyer had dreamed of creating in "The Lunar Chronicles".