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5 novella recs to break your reading slump
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items I don’t know why the bookish community sleeps on novellas so much, like a short standalone story that you can read in one setting?? In my opinion, that's the PERFECT palette cleanser in between bigger/heavier reads, so here are 5 fantasy/sci-fi novel...
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100 pages or less
200 pages or less (per story)
100 pages or less
One and done in a single sitting
This is a novella that is just pure fun and is honestly adorable. It's like a mini enemies-to-lovers story between a vampire and a vampire hunter who have been circling each other’s hunt for centuries. That is, until the hunter gets a random concussi...
Hot for Slayer (Scared Sexy Collection)
This is the novella that was eventually reworked into becoming the everlasting, but I think the impact of the original time-looping story that comes with less than 100 pages of material is still very much worth the read, or even will help you determi...
The Six Deaths of the Saint (Into Shadow)
200 pages or less (per story)
You can still read these in a single sitting (or they are already broken up into bite-sized reads for you!)
Another vamp novella here with another forbidden human and vampire pairing, but this one’s a little longer and has a bit richer worldbuilding and characters since it's a standalone novella set in the world of the Crowns of Nyaxia series. There’s medd...
Six Scorched Roses (Crowns of Nyaxia)
ok this is the only novella on this list that does come with a precursor condition - The River of Silver is a novella made up of novellas, stories within the same world, and surrounding characters that act as prequel, companion story, and continuatio...
The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy
My influence for making this list starts with one of the most beautiful stories that contained the mastery of epic sci-fi worldbuilding and a complex time travel timeline that actually lowkey made sense once it finished…all in less than 200 pages. We...
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone