The Lunar Chronicles - Fairytales with a Sci-Fi Twist
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Welcome back to YAnuary, a month of celebrating Young Adult fiction. Here's a spoiler-free introduction to the Lunar Chronicles! (With a special guest...) Thanks for watching!
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"Empowering women at someone else's expense is not equality". DUDE, YES!
This is my favorite series too, Kit!🩷
I especially love how Scarlett is so head strong and kinda badass! I also love how Cress developed and was quite brave.
Iko was so much fun, Winter's suffering...and Cinder having to deal with who she is and sometimes not always having all the answers, which was super relatable.
I was really excited for this review! Thanks 😊
Yaaaas Lunar Chronicles fan club! I fall in love with the characters all over again every time I read it.
I just started the serie because of this video and currently at book2 and I hate Scarlet....Because of her I have a hard time to continue the book. 😅
@yuana9298 keep going, you will love her by the end ... plus you get more of Cress in the next book and she is wonderful!
Wow so this series has always been on my radar, but I never prioritized it because I assumed it was kind of a standard YA romantasy. This video definitely has me hyped to read it now, I just placed a hold for Cinder at my library! XD
Yaaay! Definitely let us know what you think of it. I hope you love it!
I love this so much!!! Hope you enjoy it!
Thanks for another great video! I'm nearly finished reading Cinder, and I absolutely love it. For anyone still on the fence, the book has tons of witty dialogue, humour, political intrigue, and characters with good chemistry. It also doesn't feel overly childish (I'm 29) and is just fun. It has short chapters, which makes it feel easier to get through if you only have a short amount of time to read. I highly recommend!
The way that my heart leapt out of my chest when I saw this on my feed! Grade school me was enamored right from the moment I saw the trailer for Cinder over 10 years ago. Marissa Meyer opened my young eyes to a series of diverse, complex characters and out of this world adventures. I still adore The Lunar Chronicles as well as Ms. Meyer's other fairytale retellings as an adult.
Thank you Kit and Cronk for bringing attention to this series!!
I picked this up in 2014 and have reread it like half a dozen times since. It’s one of my favorites of all time and I’m rereading it again with my girlfriend now ❤
I mean this in the most non creepy way possible……..you have the most endearing intro to a channel I have ever seen
Also, you and your wife make a really cute couple 🩵
Thank you! And yeah, we are so cute we make others roll their eyes a lot.
I love your videos. I am a bibliophile who doesn't tent to read what your content is focused on, but oh how I love your explanations, humor, and all-out enthusiasm for books. Thank you for your content, and keep churning out the videos.
I would never watch a video on this book. But the book guy is presenting it, therefore I watch.
You are the best.
Haha thank you!
The Lunar Chronicles is still one of the best YAs I've read! Second to Hunger Games. I started reading it back in 2016 with a great expectation that it would be like a cheap ripoff of typical YA where there's a love triangle and they're fighting a war (since it was the trend that time). But it wasn't. It was so much more. It discussed a lot of political metaphors and individuality of all the characters. Reading this series, none of them ever felt left out. They played a huge part in the plot-even the side characters. I felt like I was reading a tv drama but was executed so well! It wasn't cheesy or dull. Everyone had a reason why they act that way. Marissa Meyers is a bonafide genius!
Ugh, I really need to go back and reread this series. I doubt I’m still going to like it as much as I did in the past, but a reread is definitely needed
I love your energy and humor (Kit too)! I have never heard of this series. You make this sound more fun than the original tales! Will read!
I read The Lunar Chronicles back in 2021 and I now want to reread it again after watching this video 🤓
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Putting the books to bed and tucking them in and then kissing one in the intro of your channel never gets old and always gives me a chuckle. Love your show it’s just so relaxing and entertaining.
Damsels in distress, are usually characters in so much distress that a guy has to save them. I don't see that in Cinderella. Most of the others did get saved at the end, but finding love and moving away from your stepmother doesn't make a person a Damsels in Distress.
You two are adorable! The spray bottle was a nice touch. 👌
The plot required me to 'force' her off screen, so I figured the spray bottle was the least threatening way to do that.
Interesting. Might check out tje series thanks.
I don't know where I'd gotten this information from, but I was somehow convinced that this was a YA smut series? Lmao, so I'd always ignored it. Awesome video, you got me excited to read the series 🎉
There's definitely zero smut in these books. In fact, I'd say they're probably PG-13. There's some flirting and occasional kissing in the romance plots, but that's it. And I'd say the series on the whole is maybe 30% romance-y and 70% main plots. Hope you enjoy reading it!
Hey, Genetically Modified Skeptic and his awesome wife have a whole RUclips channel each. They are adorable as you two. Do it, Kit!!!
This is one of my favorite series!! 😍
Lunar Chronicles fan club unite! 🎉
Fine, I’ll re-read The Lunar Chronicles. You’ve convinced me ;-)
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i really like the neon covers, they look so good and i love the concept. i'm sad I can't get into them but this is one of the series I'll keep trying on
Can you please pleaseeeeee do a video of the inheritance cycle 😁😁💙♥️🖤💚 I know a there are a lot of mix opinions, but I would love a deep dive video about this eragon world
I don’t know if I’m supposed to divulge this buuuut I’ve seen the schedule for the next few months and it’s on there!
@@KitCronk *Screams in Spanish * AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I remember loving this series but I hadn’t thought about it in forever. Lovely, thoughtful guide. ❤
also nice 19:31
Thank you!
Haha glad someone got it. 😉
Yet again another great video!! Loved all the YAnuary videos. 🩵
I loved these books so much when I was a teenager that I named my first cat Cinder lol
Thanks for this one! I read Cinder long ago and I felt like reading the rest, but it's been so long that I wasn't actually considering it. Now the other books are definitely on my TBR pile :)
I agree with your notion of feminism, too! Nailed it quite well.
Another great video! 🌻 Finished Cinder last year and still need to continue 😊. I’ll for sure continue I liked Cinder and I’m curious to where this story will go.
But also if you/anyone who reads this like a fairytale retelling without damsels in distress, I recommend: Forest of dreams and whispers by Katherine MacDonald. This is considered new adult? (Tbh not sure) And I think this actually may be a new favourite for me. (Currently reading the next one Mountain of mirrors and starlight because I couldn’t stop, and I hope there will be more books in this series, especially if it will be as fun as the first one.) Anyways hope your day is awesome 🌻
I immediately add all your recs to my TBR. They're so good.
@@KitCronk I’m glad they work for you 🌻😊
So happy you are giving The Lunar Chronicles the love it deserves!! It's one of my favorite series of all time so seing people liking the books makes me oh so very happy! Also love LOVE all the videos you're making! They are always so well though! keep the good work!! 😊
Also (maybe more for Kit hehe) did you know that there is an aninated series in the making for The Lunar Chronicles? HYPPEE
NO WAY!! I didn’t know that. I’ve wished for ages that they’d make them into movies, they’d be SO GOOD if they followed the books.
@@KitCronk YES I KNOW!! It'll be made by Locksmith Animation! Very excited to the the gang animated!!
I don't usually like retellings, but I could consider reading these---even if just to find out what the scifi twist is.
I loved this series way back but I stopped at Winter and never finished it. I’m debating if I should reread them now that I’m older!
Feminism in books is certainly a nuanced topic, especially lately. I have read a lot of works that just get it wrong - I can come up with quite a few examples, like in the new SW series, where the men are disempowered, incompetent, and unwilling to listen to the women in the story or just straight-up evil. I think that's the opposite of what we need to see. There is also a special shoutout to the types of books where every man in the storyline is uncharacteristically evil and the only "good" one is the main love interest.
I think what we truly need is a better representation of actual equality. Characters with flaws and virtues that aren't necessarily prescribed just because of their gender, but because it would make them more fleshed-out.
I am very hopeful that there are male authors out there who don't shy away from exploring women in their writing in every aspect. Sanderson does it and he's amazing at it. Grady Hendrix writes women in a way that I am always floored by.
Ordered the box set 😂 I honestly thought this series was just fairytale retellings so never bothered with it. It actually sounds really good.
Haha you've had a big week of ordering books! I'm really happy for you. What an investment. ❤
@@cronkthebookguy thanks 😂 it’s been a brilliant week for ordering books 🥰 the first Michael r miller book arrived yesterday and it looks so beautiful, can’t wait to read it and this series 😂
New subscriber here. Love your content. I was hoping you would review some of the works of diana wynne jones! I’d love to see your opinion about that.
Ok first, love your pic and handle name.
Second, that is an absolute fantastic idea! I love Howls Moving Castle so much. Yet I only just learnt it was a book BECAUSE OF YOUR COMMENT. It's now on my reading list. Excellent suggestion, thank you.
@@cronkthebookguy omg thats amazing! I’m honored haha. I loved howls moving castle too and read the series and loved it so much wich eventually led me to reading every single book she wrote and i loved them all. You’ll have a blast I’m sure!
Dang I might just try this
New sub. Love those intros lol 😂
Your videos are so much fun, man!
Do you have a PO box where I can send you a copy of my fantasy books? I'm a self-published indie author and I think (Hope?Dream?) that you might enjoy my novels! I'd love to send them your way if that's doable.
Lol okay, your wife was just in a few minutes. Sorry I got a little worried, she talks way too fast.
I absolutely love your energy and editing style. New subscriber here! Are you on Instagram?
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