Book #73: Cress by Marissa Meyer

So, if it isn't obvious by the cover, Cress is the retelling of Rapunzel for the Lunar Chronicle series. Cress is a data-hacking prisoner for the evil Queen Levana, locked away in a satellite circling earth. She is responsible for hacking into all of earth's communication systems and spying for the queen--but she begins to help Cinder and her team in their quest to overthrow her. When they come to rescue her, her mistress discovers and blinds her rescuer and sends them in her satellite plummeting down to earth, and then they have to cross the Sahara desert and survive somehow together, and somehow rejoin Cinder's team and help them come up with a plan to stop Levana.

I liked Cress's storyline pretty well in this one, and I kind of liked how her more timid character contrasts so strongly with Scarlet's brash and overconfident one from the previous book. Not much happened in Cinder's plans to overthrow Levana in this book, except that they managed to stop her wedding to Kai temporarily. Overall, I liked the first two books in the series more, although that may have been because I listened to them and I read this one.