Read-alikes

Books Like Cinder

Cinder is secret royalty, fierce heroine & forbidden love — sweet (1/5), third-person, ending on a hard-won happy ending. These 12 romantasy read-alikes are ranked by how much they share with it, closest first — each one explained.

In a futuristic New Beijing ravaged by a lethal plague, sixteen-year-old Cinder is a gifted cyborg mechanic and second-class citizen under her cruel stepmother's control. When crown Prince Kai seeks her help repairing an android, their unlikely connection pulls Cinder into a deadly political standoff between Earth and the manipulative Lunar queen — and toward a shocking truth about her own identity. A sci-fi retelling of Cinderella that trades the glass slipper for a prosthetic foot and the ball for an intergalactic peace summit.