List Of: Details I Loved in The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
The computer genius is the most emotional!! I feel like we don’t get that a lot, but maybe I’m wrong
Main character starts in China/East Asian inspired city
Prince Kaito has so much damsel energy
Long Lost Rightful Heir To The Throne claims throne and then DISSOLVES MONARCHY!! very fun
The pumpkin car!! </3 rip
The advisor (torin) isn’t evil!!
The doctors admittance that he would have gone on supporting everything on luna and being a devoted citizen, but because it was His Daughter, it should have been different for His Family, she should be The Exception, because That’s His Daughter. He knew his hypocrisy, and hey better late than never??
Acknowledging that seeing levanas true appearance as monstrous isn’t fair or right, and that her appearance doesn’t really have any bearing on her being horrible, because being a monstrous person isn’t about how you look.
Cinder is never not a cyborg
“ I don’t wanna hear anyone say anything about how delicious that is!” “It’s completely disgusting, you would hate it.”
“None of my friend’s bodies are replaceable, why should mine be?”
Just Iko. She’s the best.
Scarlet Growls At People Sometimes
Thorne canonically had a five year plan in high school
Mandarin suffixes for respect reasons in New Beijing (Linh-jie, Linh-mei, Linh-DaRen)
They ate the celebratory cake with a combat knife because they baked a cake and everyone forgot utensils
For most of the time, even when she is being terribly threatening and unspeakably evil, Levana is beautiful. And not beautiful in the untouchable and intimidating way, but in a way where you just admire her and adore her. Very specifically, when she is described, her voice is pleasant and melodic, her face is stunning and breathtaking. Yes she is awful, and eventually she starts declining in her emotional and mental control so that more of her irritation and cruelty and anger show, but initially the cognitive dissonance of this woman who looks so beautiful and charming and gracious act so callous and entitled is meant to be there
Some men can be useful when separated from their object of Eternal Loyalty and Devotion. Some cannot. I’m looking at you wolf -_-.
Revolutions are bloody— when your advantage over the oppressive regime is numbers, you are going to end up stepping over the bodies of fellow rebels just to take a shot at the palace gates. They can’t take all of you, but they sure can kill a lot of you.
I’m about to get my throat bitten out by my good friend wolf for the fifth time in three days :)
Everyone was thinking it, and no one voiced the thought— can cinder swim?
Snow White and her animals VS Winter in her animal sanctuary parallels
The Snow White character is black!
The emperors most plot relevant abilities are diplomacy and speechwriting
Cyborg character has an inbuilt lie detector, but has no other emotion sensors, just knows when someone is lying
The kiss counter
Cinder is at the ball and her remaining stepsister is more pissed that she stole her shoes that she didn’t even chose to wear, and not that cinder is wearing he Recently Deceased Sisters Dress
That one room in the lunar palace that was minimalisticly decorated because it was all made of glass so you could see the glittering city below and the stars above.
The glass that doesn’t reflect anything. How? Who knows but it must have cost a fortune.
Head trauma induced blindness
Temporary shoes made from hair
