Winter by Marissa Meyer

Winter by Marissa Meyer completes the Lunar Chronicles series. I enjoyed the book, and it wrapped up in a satisfying way for me, for the most part. I did consider it a bit longer than it needed to be.

Throughout the book, of the group of nine heroes and heroines, someone was getting kidnapped by the evil queen then rescued, then someone else would be kidnapped and then rescued. But it was entertaining. We get to meet Princess Winter. She's not royalty, but the evil queen is her stepmother. And her loyal guard and love interest, Jacin. I listened to it on audiobook, and the narrator did a very good job with the voices. We have the heroes and heroines from the last three books, Cinder, Kai, Scarlet, Wolf (Se'ev), Cress, and Thorne. And of course, good old Aiko, the sentient and very life-like robot. This time, they're on Luna, trying to stop evil Queen Levana from taking over the world, and killing Kai. Lots of awful stuff happens, including several people we meet and make friends with, only to have them get killed. But, as I said, the ending was very satisfying. The book is reasonably clean. There are some serious kissing scenes, but nothing stronger than that, and the language is clean, too. "Aces," and "Stars above!" are the strongest explitives you'll hear. So it's pretty safe for older teens.