Tag: short-story
The Ice Dragon by George R. R. Martin
A wonderful short story that lacks none of the magic, wonder, and darkness of a GRRM book, The Ice Dragon will capture the imaginations of many readers. Don’t let its small size fool you: just because it’s short and illustrated doesn’t mean it’s a children’s book.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Auri is a gentle, beautiful, wondrous soul, and her adventure in this novella is heart-warming. I loved every page. I loved getting to know the hidden places that only she visits. I loved discovering a completely new place, naming it, and arranging it so it was just so. I loved the illustrations that made this book so sweet.
Kalona’s Fall by P.C. and Kristin Cast
P.C Cast and Kristin Cast have been writing full length novels since 2007 (I did a Goodreads search), so there is really no excuse for how poorly written this novella is. The dialogue is artificial, the storytelling confused, and the novella comes across as laboured.
Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth
I love Four. This collection of short-stories is just the fix I needed. This Divergent Collection includes the short stories The Transfer, The Initiate, The Son, and The Traitor, as well as key moments from Divergent.
The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland – For a Little While by Catherynne M. Valente
This is a beautiful short-story that gives us an insight into who Mallow was before we met her in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Jake and the Other Girl by Emmy Laybourne
Oh Jake. Such a selfish boy! I thought being inside his head would give me a reason to like him, but this novella just showed me how right I was in disliking him.
Dress Your Marines in White by Emmy Laybourne
A short but poignant story that throws light on the chemicals that have destroyed entire cities in the Monument 14 series.
Fracture Me by Tahereh Mafi
The novellas for this series seem pretty divisive. When Destroy Me came out everyone was swooning over Warner and at the announcement of Fracture Me there was a lot of back-lash over it being from Adam’s point of view, and not Warner’s (or even Kenji’s). So much of the conversation in the fandom…
Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi
I’m reading this long, long after I’ve read Unravel Me, which I think is both a positive and a negative. A positive because I’m not hankering to know what happens next, but a negative because the experience of reading Unravel Me would have been richer for knowing what this novella…
Shadows by Jennifer L. Armentrout
I wish the Lux novels were about Dawson. It’s not that I don’t like Daemon … well actually, I don’t like him much at all … but I wish authors and publishers weren’t so eager to always shove tortured, rebellious, mysterious bad boys in our faces. I’d much rather read about…