3.5 
 This was a good little short story about Cinder when she first came to live with Ari, Pearl and Peony. I wish I'd read it before I read Cinder itself. 
 There's not really much to say about this. It shows the loneliness and difficulty that Cinder is feeling well enough, and it is shown that Pearl is not horrible here and was later just infected by her mother's prejudice maybe ... ? 
 I DO wish that we could have seen more WHY Ari is as mean as she is, but I guess it doesn't matter so much ... some people just aren't very nice. I also got the impression in Cinder that Cinder herself was closer to Garan than was depicted in this short story, but I may well be wrong with that one.