Title: Winter
Series Identifier: Lunar Chronicles book 4
Format: Book
Genre:
- Fantasy
- Sci-fi
- Young Adult
Conversation Topic:
- Betrayal
- Cultural representation
- Difficult emotions
- Family
- Fear
- Finding Oneself/Identity Development
- Leadership
- Love
- Moral dilemma
- Power struggle
- Problem Solving
- Resilience
- Standing up for others
- Strong female role models
- Standing up for oneself
- Trust
- Sacrifice for others
- Taking responsibility for one’s actions
- Working with others
Relatable Experience:
- Abuse
- Blended Family
- Death
- Disability
- Fear/Anxiety
- Fighting
- Making Others Worry
- Loss (other than death)
Insights:
- Happy endings do happen.
- Cinder’s constant self-doubt can be seen as impostor syndrome. She shows again and again her ability to stay cool under pressure and come up with a plan, yet she still doubts her ability to make good leadership decisions.
- Winter’s insistence on not using her glamour at risk to her self as an example of making difficult decisions.
- Several examples of physical disabilities. “Broken doesn’t mean unfixable.”
Anecdotes:
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Link to Content: Winter – Marissa Meyer