When I first came upon Cinder in my search for new Young Adult literature to read, I was immediately hooked. A cyborg Cinderella living in a dystopian New Beijing sounded extremely interesting. In my opinion, the book delivers on this promise. Cinder is working as a mechanic, supporting her stepmother and her two stepsisters. When she was still a child she had to have major surgery that transformed her into a cyborg. Her life before the change is a mystery to her and her family as she was adopted right after the surgery and has no memories before this. Her stepmother resents her, blaming her for her husbands death and for being a cyborg but still relies on her work as a mechanic to finance the family. When the prince brings his broken android to Cinder her life begins to spiral out of control. There is a deadly virus threatening her family, she is afraid prince Kai might resent her for being cyborg and the empire is in danger of invasion. A lot of people have laughed after I tol