Review: The Little Android (The Lunar Chronicles #0.6) by Marissa Meyer

Title: The Little Android

Series: The Lunar Chronicles #0.6

Previous novella in this series: Glitches #0.5

Author: Marissa Meyer

Genre: YA, sci-fi, fairy tale retelling

Publication date: January 2014

Published by: Feiwel and Friends

Source: Purchased Stars Above

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Synopsis:

The Little Android is a retelling of The Little Mermaid, set in the world of The Lunar Chronicles by New York Times-bestselling author Marissa Meyer.

When android Mech6.0 saves the life of a handsome hardware engineer, her body is destroyed and her mechanics discover a glitch in her programming. Androids aren’t meant to develop impractical reasoning or near-emotional responses…let alone fall in love.

My rating: ★★★★★
The Little Android is a retelling of The Little Mermaid... the Hans Christian Andersen one, not the Disney one. And yikes 😬

Our “mermaid” is an android called Mech6.0 (aka Star later on in the story) and she is very glitchy and loved her gossip. Lol. Mech6.0 ends up falling for this really nice guy working on a ship after she saves him from a nasty fall. Honestly, Mech6.0 might be an android, but damn is she awesome! I love her! After saving this guy, Mech6.0 is in need of a new body, and she finds it in the most unexpected place...

She goes sees Cinder at the market! I was not expecting this, so it was a really nice surprise. I’m gonna guess that this novella takes place before Cinder or right at the beginning. Anyway, I loved Cinder and how kind she was to Mech6.0. She said the android reminded her of a friend (aka Iko ❤)

As we know from OG Little Mermaid story, the guy falls in love with another girl, and even though I was expecting this, it was still so sad! He seemed nice and even the other girl was nice too, but my poor Mech6.0! 😩 I really felt for her, which is saying something seeing as how she’s an android. Lol.

But Mech6.0 (aka Star at this point) was so sweet! She literally traded places with the other girl so she could be with the guy she loved 😩 Basically, the other girl was secretly a cyborg and her father commissioned the ship to be built because he was planning on sending her away into space to avoid the cyborg draft. But the girl would rather risk it and be with the guy she loved. So, unknowingly to the girl’s father, my sweet Star traded places with said girl, and then Star was shot into space just before she died down permanently. It was so incredibly sad, I was literally crying by the end 😭😭😭

This was such a good, heartbreaking story and I absolutely loved it! There was so much to this story that I was not expecting, even though I knew the basic outline of the original fairy tale. It was all a really cool surprise to me, especially when it pertains to The Lunar Chronicles world. I also loved Mech6.0 and how so sweet and selfless she was. She was basically another glitchy android, and I’m gonna be honest, I love them glitchy androids. Lol. She deserved ALL the Happily Ever Afters! 😭

Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If not, what do you think? Does it sound like something you might want to read? Leave me a link to your review or comment below! 😊