I know that, originally, or, in every adaptation of Cinderella, she may not have had her reasons explained either and that’s fine, I guess, but my inner self always wants to understand people – characters – in order to enjoy a book more. It’s like the minute she saw her, she wanted her gone. I can understand them being poor and her wanting to make Cinder work for her food, but she never gave her a chance. Also, I don’t remember if in book #1 we have the chance to discover Adri’s motives to taking such advantage of Cinder. What I would have preferred there to be is more scenes with the father and especially some giving me the possibility to comprehend him a little more and why he chose to adopt her…He is a mystery. I loved seeing Cinder being introduced to the girls and the stepmother and how Peony beautifully reacted to her arrival. Sometimes you just want to get to the sequel as fast as you can.Ībout this #0.5 short story, it is one of the rare ones that are actually introducing a story well and giving more perception for different subjects, having read Cinder before. The reason why I’ve read this today is because I want to start Scarlet soon! But next will follow novella #1.5…oh dear, I both love and hate novellas. It doesn’t matter now anymore, because reading this had me remember why this is such a popular and loved series among book lovers. I have finished book #1 in The Lunar Chronicles series a little more than a year ago and, somehow, my brain had a glitch for I stopped reading further. It’s only after finishing this novella that I realized how much I’ve missed reading about Cinder. (Isn’t that an adorable art work, by the way? So very charming and representing Cinder accurately enough with great talent, in my opinion!)

Something that may, or may not, be a glitch… In Glitches, a short prequel story to Cinder, we see the results of that illness play out, and the emotional toll that takes on Cinder. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness.

Genres & Themes: YA, Short Story, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling, Cinderella, FamilyĬinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.

Glitches by marissa meyer