Hi everyone! Many of you know my pen pal Brooke by now. Today in honor of the release of Stars Above tomorrow – a collection of prequels and a bonus epilogue to The Lunar Chronicles – we decided to do a collab post together discussing anything and everything about one of our favorite series! Fair warning: If you HAVE NOT completed the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer, do not continue reading. There will be many spoilers involving the last book. Please close out this post right now and don’t read any further!

Emily: So I guess I’ll start with a question for you, Brooke! What’s your favorite book in the series?

Brooke: Scarlet. Scarlet is definitely my favorite; then probably Winter and Cinder right after that. Cress is probably my least favorite.

Emily: I think Scarlet is my favorite, and Cress is probably my second favorite — no; I can never decide which is first, Scarlet or Cress. They’re both close up there. Which ones do you own?

Brooke: All of them.

Emily: Paperback or hardback?

Brooke: All of them except for Fairest and Winter are soft covers.

Emily: I wish I owned all of them! I own Winter in hardback and Cinder in paperback.

Brooke: I am SO excited for the “wedding of the century” though!

Emily: YESSS. (picture me smiling awkwardly for five seconds, staring off into space because that is literally what I did in the recording I took of our co-post here. XD) The Kai and Cinder wedding!

B: I’ll probably just skip right to it!

E: I really don’t know which part I’ll skip to or start with. Because you don’t really have to start in a specific order with a bind-up of short stories/novellas. I know we’re getting a novella for Iko…

B: There is one on Iko, yes… there is one called “The Mechanic,” which is the one in Kai’s perspective on his way… just throughout Cinder. There’s one for Scarlet’s grandmother, when she gets Cinder. And then…

E: We get one called The Queen’s Army, which follows Queen Levana. THIRTEEN YEAR OLD Thorne…

B: Yeah, he’s thirteen. It’s so adorable.

E: Oh, and we get to see nine-year-old Cress! I’m so excited to see all the little people!

B: Cress would just make such an adorable little girl.

E: The wedding of the century… going back to that bonus epilogue for Winter, you know I’m most excited for that. I like prequels, but I think I like added epilogues the best. I mean, I love seeing the characters as kids, they’re adorable, but they have no idea what’s happening here in the series — they’re just completely different! In Winter the ending was so great because they’re all together!

B: But… the ending was a bit unrealistic to me. To me, they probably should have killed one, but I’m also glad she didn’t.

E: I know. I watched several reviews on booktube, and a lot of people said they should die and having just finished the series when they were still my babies I was just all “NOOOO.” But now two months after the fact, thinking it through… I would have recovered. But the thing is, if I had my pick… I would have killed Winter, Cinder, Jacin, or Kai. Those are my least favorites. But then again, they’re fairy tales. So it did make sense for them not to die.

B: Yeah. I would have wanted – oh, this is so hard – Winter. Or Jacin. Though I would have felt really bad if Jacin died because of Winter. She really needed him, in the same way I would have felt bad for Jacin. And I would have died if they killed off Kai.

E: But he was so shallow! I didn’t really like him that much.

B: I FREAKED out when Cinder almost died. I was just…

(Inserting a GIF to represent what Brooke was doing here. XD)

And if I HAD to pick a third? I would hate to say it. But I would have picked Cress.

E: That would suck! Because she’s barely even lived! That would… No!

B: (*grinning evilly*) Well, I almost said Thorne!

E: But if Marissa Meyer had killed Winter, Jacin, Scarlet or Wolf… I mean if SCARLET died, Wolf just wouldn’t even be alive. I mean he’d be alive, but…

B: He’d kill himself.

E: I wouldn’t be surprised. or at least just lived in… a permanent daze. 

B: She went MISSING and he freaked out!

E: Right?! It was kind of cute though. Who was your favorite overall couple, out of all of them?

B: Wolf/Scarlet.

E: Mine too!

B: “Wolflet.”

E: We should probably wrap this up soon. Any concluding thoughts?

B: Okay so… what is your FAVORITE part about the Lunar Chronicles? Whether it be a scene, or something, or someone?

E: A scene: The Cress/Thorne kiss. Because everyone waited SO long for that, and the other relationships went a bit fast – even with Scarlet and Wolf, though they ARE my favorite, that was fast. But with Thorne and Cress, it went just fast enough to keep me interested but also slow enough to have me excited when they finally got together. Yours?

B: Well, my one MAJOR part… was that they’re living on the moon. And all the cyborg-y stuff, that was awesome. But as for favorite scene… I don’t know, I guess I always liked the parts where Kai was always teasing and bugging Cinder!

what was YOUR favorite part of the lunar chronicles? anything to add to our discussion?? i can’t wait to hear from you all and see what you think of stars above tomorrow! anyone planning on buying it right away? and what would you like me and brooke to do a post on next time? any ideas of what you like best?

 

until next time!