Stars Above: A Lunar Chronicles Collection

Favorites in order:
1. The Princess and The Guard
2. The Queen's Army
3. Glitches
4. Something Old, Something New
5. The Little Android

SpoilerThe Keeper: Scarlett and her grandmother's story from when Scarlett ran away and came to live with her, and when Cinder was given to Michelle for safekeeping.

Glitches: Cinder's POV from the time she woke and came to live with her stepmother, Adri. This was really good because it showed Garan, a character who was always mentioned in the main story but never had any lines.

The Queen's Army: This is the backstory for how Wolf became the Alpha of the pack, and the one that hurt the most because Ze'ev is the one character that went through colossal shit over and over again! Leave him alone already!

Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky: The backstory with Kate that was briefly mentioned in Cress. Nothing noteworthy here.

After Sunshine Passes By: A story of how Cress came to be in the satellite. Nothing new here. This story just reminded me how much I wanted Sybil to be goneeee!

The Princess and the Guard: The claustrophobic story of why Winter stopped using her gift, of how she got the scars and how Jacin became a palace guard. Every single character in these stories was so badly trapped in situations they couldn't get out of. I loved this one!

The Little Android: Why in the name of stars was this so sad and tragic? The end was a real punch in the face.

The Mechanic: Kai's POV for his first meeting with Cinder. It was fine and nothing overly exciting.

Something Old, Something New: So cute! <3 Nice wedding planning :D I loved this with all my heart. Everyone is so cute together!

4/5 stars

There's this thing about Novellas that I hate. You start to get really into them and then suddenly they are over. Nonetheless, Stars Above, in true Marissa Meyer fashion, was a phenomenally fun read.

The Princess and the Guard was by far my favorite of the nine novellas, and I just wish I had more of Winter's life growing up and a deeper inside about the ethics of the Lunar powers.

Also can we talk about the happy ending overload in Something Old, Something New. I don't think I can get enough of all these characters living out their happily ever afters.

My ratings are:

The Keeper:5/5 stars
Glitches:4.5/5 stars
The Queen's Army:3.5/5 stars
Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky:4/5 stars
After Sunshine Passes By:3.75/5 stars
The Princess and the Guard:10/5 stars
The Little Android:2/5 stars
The Mechanic:4/5 stars
Something Old, Something New:5/5 stars

《This was only the second time Carswell Thorne had stopped to ponder one Kate Fallow. The first time, he had wondered why she liked books so much, and if it had anything to do with why he liked spaceships. Because they could take you somewhere far, far away from here.》

This was one of my favorite novellas from The Lunar Chronicles :)
Thorne is love, as always <3

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The Keeper ★★★★☆

Glitches ★★★★☆

The Queen's Army ★★★☆☆

Carswell's Guide to Being Lucky ★★★★★

After Sunshine Passes By ★★★★★

The Princess and the Guard ★★★★★

The Little Android ★★★★☆

The Mechanic ★★★½☆

Something Old, Something New ★★★★☆

《They had stood against all adversity to be together, and now they would forge their own path to love.》

I'm 13 years old again, and in love with Thorne ❤❤❤

Como todas as histórias de Marissa, muito bem escrito e você facilmente se envolve com as personagens e, em segundos, ela transporta o leitor para a visão sortuda e independente da vida de Carswell, mesmo ele com 13 anos.
Thorne mostrou-se um verdadeiro malandro em meio a uma sociedade rica e “fútil”. Convenhamos que ele apenas pode se dar o luxo de querer ser “alternativo”, por ter condições para isso (família rica), por mais cliché que seja essa idéia de menino rico que transgride as regras e faz coisas de que não precisa (como comércio com coisas furtadas) para ter a sensação de faz algo por si, ser diferente... é o thorne então nunca deixa de ficar encanador.

Feliz por ele ter conseguido sua nave cargueira - pena estarem partindo para a revolução ;)

#Winteriscoming

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Faltam estrelas nesse goodreads para expressar meus sentimentos por esse livro.


Absolutamente perfeitooo!!! Marissa Meyer DO IT AGAIN

O livro é um compilado de todas as short-storys/oneshot (como é em português?) já publicadas online pela autora - além de novos capítulos, MAS compilados em uma ordem “cronológica” das vidas de cada uma das personagens. Como suas vidas estavam, de alguma forma, entrelaçadas (o que aconteceu na vida de cada um antes de se encontrarem, o que os levou a serem o que são, e embora tão DIFERENTES, tão distantes as “realidades” de cada, conseguiram se encontrar no futuro). A mesma suavidade, o mesmo humor, envolvimento com o leitor continuam, apresentando personagens novos, antigos e principalmente o desenvolvimento daqueles que já aprendemos a amar muito durante a série.

Eu ri (a plenos pulmões, sério, de fazer vergonha! Principalmente comSomething old, Something new), chorei - absurdos, sério-, acabei com meus post it. Mesmo com a releitura de alguns dos contos, chorei como se fosse a primeira vez.

As preferidas, do já preferido livro são, sem dúvida, The mechanic, The Keeper & Someting old, something new conseguiram ser mais mais que tudo já imaginado.
Aconselho que seja lido (obviamente, depois de completar a série, pois caso contrário, o mundo se perde) como um quinto volume de “cosias que você deveria saber sobre todos eles!”

OBS: queremos mais IKO e Kinney, NOW!

The contract is so perfectly fullfilled. I really feel empty AND heartwarmed right now. This is the end, officially. No. Marissa please write more of them, please... especially with such an ending, omg.

I was a little disappointed because we have no Cresswell/Jacinter scenes in SOSN? But then actually, that's fairly understandable. That's Scarlet et Wolf's wedding and Cinder and Kai are basically the main characters, so... :) (the proposal omg... the proposal!!)

But, oh damn. I give it five stars anyway because I love them so much and I want to cry because I'll miss them.

Really really much. [insert baby cryin gif here]



Long life to the most awesome lunar/earthen crew ever.

Aww, I was so happy to have a little more time with all these characters :) I think some of these stories were available before online or as bonus content, but I'd never read any of them before. Some of them were SO SAD (but good) but I loved the last story, which serves as an epilogue to the whole series :')

A great collection for devotees of the series! Not something that I think would stand alone very well. But hey, if this sounds good to you and you haven't read the rest of the Lunar Chronicles... get on that ;)

I ADORED THIS BOOK.
I wasn't expecting anything less than adoration; The Lunar Chronicles will always be a longstanding favorite of mine, and when I remembered this addition existed, I couldn't wait to get my hands on it.
And it definitely didn't disappoint- it answered questions about the main characters I never knew I had!
Marissa Meyer's writing style and obvious love for the characters she's created comes through stronger than ever, and the connection the reader feels to the characters makes you feel even more submerged in their world.
While it was a bittersweet end, knowing I would never read anything more from the Lunar Chronicles for the first time, I would easily read it again, as these characters and this universe will forever have my heart.

Carswell Thorne is awesome, that is all.

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This would have been around 3.5 stars if it weren't for The Princess and The Guard and Something Old, Something New. Still a bit disappointed that Cress and Thorne didn't get a proposal, but I guess the happily ever after made up for it in the end.

Ahhhh, I've finished the Lunar Chronicles. I feel like this series has become a huge part of my life and I wish it didn't. Very stupid to get attached to a book series.

Although I loved the series, some stories in this book were subpar and I wish they weren't. But the ending was beautiful, downright amazing!

3.5 stars!

I cannot get enough of The Lunar Chronicles. I love this series so much, I would read anything set in this universe. That's the only reason I liked this little Novella collection, because I love the characters.

The only story I didn't care for was “The Mechanic” it felt like I'd already read it. (Probably because I basically had). Just not really a fan of re-reading the same scene from a different perspective I guess.

I absolutely adored the rest of the stories though, especially Something Old, Something New. My heart was mush! I couldn't stop smiling, so cute and precious and I just love The Lunar Chronicles and the characters.

What a disappointing set of short stories.The only one really worth reading, was one that I had read already, [b:The Queen's Army 16075962 The Queen's Army (The Lunar Chronicles, #1.5) Marissa Meyer https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1349734763s/16075962.jpg 21871423], which is available online for free. All the other ones I trudged through, and I was pretty annoyed with them. Especially the The Little Android, as it didnt add anything to The Lunar Chronicles, and it had nothing to do with any of the main characters, it was just a short story based in the world. I suppose this was my fault, I knew that the last short story had an epilogue to [b:Winter 13206900 Winter (The Lunar Chronicles, #4) Marissa Meyer https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470057036s/13206900.jpg 18390887], and this is what I was most interested in, but even this was a little underwhelming. They all got their HEA, and I didn't really need the details, because honestly it would have been better, and I would have saved myself 4 or 5 hours.