Parents need to know that Stars Above is a collection of nine short stories from Marissa Meyer's bestselling Lunar Chronicles series that features major sci-fi twists on well-known fairy tales. Talk of when Cress was taken from her parents, when Winter's father was shot and killed, and when Cinder was so badly burned in a fire that she almost died.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Winter suffers hallucinations where blood drips from walls. A robot suffers pain in the wrong droid body. A man is hit by a crane and nearly drowns in a vat of oil. Cress cuts herself because the queen wills it, and there's talk of a woman forced into sex for years who gets pregnant and eventually kills herself. Mind control forces people to do horrible things against their will. Many tears when Wolf is stolen from his family for the army and when a man falls ill with a fatal contagious disease and is taken away from his wife and daughters suddenly. Wolf and Cinder undergo modification surgeries with talk of needles and enhancements. There are constant fistfights among the genetically engineered soldiers and one death by a neck snapping. Most violence occurs when Wolf is trained to be a fighter.
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