Winter by Marissa Meyer

★★★★★
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Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.

Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend – the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.

Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters? 

Wow, what a spectacular conclusion to Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles. It definitely will not leave fans of the series disappointed, as it gives depth to the previously introduced characters of Princess Winter and her guard, Jacin Clay, in a Snow-White-inspired plot, while Cinder and friends work to finally defeat Queen Levana. The story is full of action and surprises, and I had to keep wondering if the beloved fairy-tale-inspired characters would actually get happily-ever-after endings. I absolutely loved it from start to finish and highly recommend it!

Thanks to Goodreads First Reads, I won a copy of Winter. I was not required to write a positive review, and all the opinions I have expressed are my own.