I am going to review each of the short stories that I read in order instead of how they are ordered in the book.
1. The Mechanic: This short story is from Kai's POV when he met Cinder for the first time in the New Beijing Market. I was not impressed with this short story and I could have done without. I don't care for Kai or Cinder. It was also very sexist of Kai when he found out that Linh Cinder was a young girl instead of an old man like he assumed.
2. The Little Android: I had to do a little bit of research on this short, because when I read it, it thoroughly confused me. It is supposedly a retelling of The Little Mermaid. Once again, I was never a fan of The Little Mermaid and don't remember watching it. Before I looked more into this story, my thoughts were that it would be Nansi or Iko even, but that changed when this little lovesick droid went to Cinder. It has a one scene with Cinder but this novella doesn't need to be read to understand the universe. We never found out who Miko and Dataran truly are.
3. The Queen's Army: This one is my second favorite out of the whole book. It gives all the details of the wolf soldiers. We are reading it from Ze'ev aka Wolf's POV as he goes through the surgery and training and eventually becoming Alpha of his pack. This can be read after Scarlet so you can better understand it, or you can read it before like I did to be acquainted with Wolf.
4. The Keeper: This story follows Scarlet's grandmother and how she helped Cinder become the Cyborg that she is today. We also get more of a background on Scarlet's childhood and family life. I can't say much without giving away most of the series plot.
5. Glitches: This is the pre-quel novella to the whole series that Marissa Meyer released. It is about Cinder meeting her new "adoptive" family in New Beijing. We meet Linh Garan, Linh Adri, Pearl nd Peony. She is hated right away and at the very end, Linh Garan attracts Letumosis and we meet Iko as well. Cinder put her back together to show her new family that she wasn't worthless.
6. After Sunshine Passes By: This is where we meet Cress. You can read this before or after Cress. I read it before and it gives all the background of her being with all the other shells and becoming a hacker for the queen and eventually being imprisoned on her satellite at a very young age.
7. Carswell's Guide To Being Lucky: This novel is all about Thorne's childhood. How is was a sweetheart with the girls in his grade. How is gambled and made money. His family life and how is father expected him to be a general when he really wanted to be a Rampion pilot.
8. The Princess & The Guard: This is set around Winter and Jacin's friendship and it is mostly about why Winter stopped using her Glamour and the events that surrounded that decision.
9. Something Old, Something New: When I got through reading Winter, I was so in love with Wolf and Scarlet's relationship. They are one of my favorite OTP's. I went online and looked up fan art, and fan fiction on these two and there are not many out there. So imagine my surprise when I went to go read the last novella and it is about WOLF AND SCARLET GETTING MARRIED!!!!!! I squealed like the fan girl I was and the wedding scene was so beautiful and I could not keep the grin off my face the entire time. This novella put an end to my searching for fanfiction of these two because I got my happy ending.
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