When Peony is struck down with letumosis, the plague that is going around and which also kills the king, Adri volunteers Cinder to participate in research to try to find a cure for the disease. She knows that she will not get to the big ball because her stepmother Adri is putting all of her resources into sending Cinder's stepsisters, Peony and Pearl. I also didn't feel what attraction these two had to each other, but they apparently did.Ĭinder is the best mechanic in New Beijing, so when Prince Kai brings her his android to repair, she is not overly surprise, but is very flattered.
Weaknesses: The pictures of Wendy and Hakiam appear only on the back cover! There are aįew instances where this verges into more high school territory- Hakiam smokes marijuana, and there is a party or two- but these events are not glamorized. Strengths:I don't know that I have read anything that covers black-on-black prejudice, so this was interesting and will be a good addition to my romance books. Wendy helps Hakiam take care of little Malikia, and tries to get him to secure a job and continue his education, but when things go wrong with the baby, he's not sure if he can hang on. Wendy and Hakiam are strangely drawn to each other, and start to date. Wendy does- it includes going to college at Howard University in order to reconnect with her ethnic heritage, a plan that her father does not embrace.
Having had enough of that, he moves from Cincinnati to Philadelphia to help his cousin Leesa raise her premature baby, Malikia.
While there, she meets Hakiam, whose mother got tired of raising him and put him into foster care. Wendy's father is a well-to-do, educated black man who is vehemently opposed to black people who have not made something of themselves, so he is not happy that Wendy is volunteering with a tutoring center in an economically disadvantaged part of town.
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