Okayyyy.... I'm in chapter 37, so a little more than halfway through the book Cress. The suspense keeps growing. Especially this chapter. Just a little background information is that there is a doctor, Dr. Erland and a girl named Cress. They don't know each other but they are meeting in this chapter. Cress has no family, and Dr. Erland lost his daughter. See where this is going?  Going from there, Dr. Erland takes a blood sample from Cress because he is trying to find a cure. He starts to run the test when Cress runs and hides.


      The most important line from this chapter is, "He found himself hoping that the hallucination was true and she was not his daughter. That his daughter had been killed by Sybil Mira, as he'd been led to believe so many years ago. Because if it was her, she would despise him." (Meyer 335). See? The suspense is growing. You can probably predict what happens. This quote helps so much to foreshadow what is going to happen in the plot next. Without it, what the doctor is thinking would not be, well, obvious. This quote is going to help develop what the doctor is going to think and feel later in the book. Can you just imagine what he'll think when he-...Well, I'll leave the imagining up to you.

     
      Cress. The book is good, great actually. The author does a great job using figurative language to help bring the book to life. Similes are the most frequently used type. The similes used are also not always used to compare two items, but instead used to compare actions that would happen in reality.

It helps engage the reader and relate easier. "He kept rapidly blinking behind his glasses, like trying to clear away an eyelash, until his gaze fell away from her all together." (Meyer 328). This is an example of the similes the author uses. To me, I could easily relate to what the author was trying to describe because of the comparison she used.

      Although the book uses good figurative language, is does not use as much diction as it could. Every now and then there will be a good descriptive word, yet the book could use a few more. Sometimes, the book can feel repetitive in word description in areas where there isn't much diction. Thus making that section a very easy read. I think the book could use a little more to make it a more challenging read. Even with only some diction and a lot of figurative language, the book is still a great read.




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        Cinder Linh is one of the main characters in my book, Cress. To describe her would be to say that she is very brave, determined, but also kind, and caring. In a way, she kind of reminds me of Katniss from the Hunger Games. She is the type that would do brave, and daring things, but would not appreciate a lot of publicity from it. An example from Cress is, "She raised her head. The woman was still beaming. 'Yes?' 'You are brave and beautiful.' She tensed, feeling the woman had threatened her than complimented her...The woman kept smiling.'Um. Thank you?'" (Meyer 220). This example shows that Cinder does not exactly know how to respond, and she sure doesn't bask in the admiration. Just as Katniss did not always want her actions and private life to be displayed all across the country.


     In addition, both characters are not only Cinder chooses to stay in the dark and in hiding as does Katniss. Both characters do it mainly for the same reasons. Katniss hides from the government as they try to track her down, and Cinder hides from the queen who wants to kill her. Because both characters share a similar conflict/situation, this results in similar actions and responses. When two characters share similar personalities, and then they also share similar situations, they are most likely to react the same way. It makes it wasier for the reader to predict what may happen.




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        The best part of my book, Cress is how unique the story line is. It takes the usual, familiar fairytales and turns them into something creative and puts a huge twist on the story line. It uses the stories of Cinderella, red riding hood, and Rapunzel and brings them to futuristic times. Because these stories take place in futuristic times, Cinderella(Cinder) is a cyborg, Red Riding Hood (Scarlet) becomes friends the wolf who is apart of a secret organization, and Rapunzel (Cress) lives in a satellite instead of a tower.

        In the previous books, Cinder and Scarlet, the characters meet and team up with each other along with other characters who aren't exactly from fairytales but they do play a big part in these stories. In the third book, Cress, The story of Rapunzel if finally introduced. All the characters are teaming up to overthrow the Queen of the planet Lunar. As the characters face different hardships, the suspense grows. In addition, each chapter is from a different character's point of view which also helps to see what is happening to the other characters when the get split up. It also helps contribute information to the reader about the character's pasts. With all of these components of this creative, uniquely written story, it makes the book an exciting read.