She is brought back to the palace, tried, and forced to cut off her own pinky finger.Īfter Cress manages to deploy the parachutes of the free-falling satellite, they ensure a safe landing in the Sahara Desert. She speaks with him, and he reveals that Lunars are able to contract a mutated version of the deadly virus that has been killing many Earthens for more than a decade.ĭuring this time, Scarlet is being held at an aristocratic Lunar household, being forced to be a 'pet' for a young boy to practice his gift on.

Cinder decides to land the Rampion in Africa where she was to meet Dr. The crew has now been separated from one another and Cinder is sure that not only are Cress and Thorne certainly dead but Scarlet will soon have the same fate as will Wolf if she doesn't get him medical attention.

Erland has discovered that Lunars are able to contract a mutated form of the letumosis virus which they had previously been immune to. Jacin Clay, a pilot who brought Sybil to Cress's satellite, decides to join Cinder's side, while the almost fatal wounding of Wolf renders him unconscious, and Sybil leaves Thorne and Cress to die after shutting down her satellite, making it hurtle toward Earth without a way to stop it. The trap results in the capture of Scarlet, the protagonist of the previous novel, and love interest of Wolf. However, an unexpected visit from Thaumaturge Sybil Mira, who is Cress's guardian/captor, throws a wrench into the plans as she discovers Cress' intent to run and plans a trap for Cinder's crew. After communicating with Cinder's crew, she asks them to rescue her from her satellite that she has been imprisoned on for seven years, which they say they will do. She is contacted by Cinder, the main protagonist of the first novel, and her crew on Thorne's spaceship, the Rampion, through the D-COMM chip that had made Nainsi malfunction in the first book (she is the same girl that warned Cinder about Levana's ulterior motives of marrying Kai).

The novel begins with an introduction to Crescent 'Cress' Moon Darnel, a sixteen-year-old girl living in a satellite in space that has been her prison for most of her life. The story is loosely based on the fairy tale of ' Rapunzel', similar to its predecessors Cinder and Scarlet which were loosely based on ' Cinderella' and ' Little Red Riding Hood' respectively. It is the third novel in The Lunar Chronicles series and the sequel to Scarlet. Print ( hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-bookĬress is a 2014 young adult science fiction novel written by American author Marissa Meyer and published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends.

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