Cinder by Marissa Meyer

If you love the Disney version of Cinderella, like I do, you may have a difficult time with this book.
 
Even though this is the story of Cinderella, it has some major story shifts.  The setting is New Beijing, but it is Beijing far into the future. Cinder is a cyborg.  The prince is the prince of the Eastern Commonwealth, basically China and many other former Aisan countries.  In fact, many countries have been formed into large conglomerates, including the American Republic. In fact, there are also "humans" living on the moon - Lunars.

The prince's father is very ill with a plague that has killed many all over Earth.  All of Earth is rushing to discover a cure for the plague.  Serums have been developed in the Asian Commonwealth.  All the countries are willing to help to discover a cure by sending volunteers or draftees, but it is only being tested on cyborgs.  So far, Cinder feels confident that she will not be selected or volunteered because she is the sole money earner since the death of her adoptive father.  In fact, her father died after contracting the plague.

As the story begins, Cinder is in the marketplace.  She runs a shop that fixes robots.  She is known as a phenominal repairer of machines.  So, Prince Kai comes to ask her, for her assistance to repair his robot, which has suddenly stopped working.
Also, Cinder doesn't know who her mother was.  She only knows that she was adopted.  She doesn't remember anything before she woke up with her cyber implants....
I wasn't too sure I would like this book.  My husband and I listened to the book, an Audible.com download, for a long trip.  After listening for an hour we were hooked.  We downloaded the second, Scarlett - the story of Little Red Riding Hood...sort of.