
"Nothing makes an android feel more useless than when a human is crying.I don’t think that happens to most androids."


A young and orphaned Cinder has just been recently operated on and shipped off to the Commonwealth in an attempt to not only adjust to her new life, but to provide a safehaven from her aunt, the very Lunar queen who threatens her existence.Īnd though Cinder is met with a caring family at first, she can't help but feel the fake hospitality that lingers in their gazes. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. The story opens to an uncertain Cinder sitting next to Linh Garan, her new legal guardian, on a train ride. Glitches (The Lunar Chronicles 0.5) by Marissa Meyer Published December 5th 2011 Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. 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, Peony's illness. Linh Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg.
