Winter

Winter (the Lunar Chronicles #4), by Marissa Meyer, 824 pages

Finally- a conclusion to The Lunar Chronicles!  Princess Winter, the scarred step-daughter of the evil Queen Levana, is viewed as such a threat to the throne that the Queen finally orders her murdered.  I think we know the story of Snow White enough to know how that one plays out.  But in addition to that storyline, we have Cinder, the cyborg-mechanic-secret-lost-princess, rallying the planet for a revolution to overthrow Levana; Prince Kai, in love with Cinder but marrying Levana out of duty to Planet Earth; Scarlet and Wolf, who never seem to get a break; Cress and Thorne, who make me roll my eyes to a painful degree with the amount of non-communication they seem to do; and the people of Luna, who get slightly more character development than they did in previous books (but it's still not alot).  This book wasn't life-changing, but there was a theme throughout the book that really spoke to me: "Broken isn't the same as unfixable."  I think that represents all of the characters and the storyline pretty well. 

Fairest

Fairest, by Marissa Meyer, 222 pages

I will admit it- one of my guilty pleasure readings is fairy tale retellings.  I enjoyed the rest of the Lunar Chronicles series, and I'm waiting on the release of Winter (come on, already!).  This will tide me over for now, and was actually an interesting, even somewhat sympathetic, take on Levana's story.  Levana is, of course, the evil queen of the Moon, but she parallels the story of the evil queen of the Snow White tale.  Let's just say that she was not always terrible... but there's definitely no redemption in store for her.