Comments on: Novellas — Have any knocked your socks off lately?

By: Jill Myles

Jill Myles — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 02:49:19 +0000

Marjorie Liu’s novellas are good. I read this great one about an angel named Selah not too long ago…

Oh oh oh – I loved loved the Patty Briggs Alpha/Omega novella. Here’s hoping that the full-length book has some super triple-x throwdowns or this girl is going to be disappointed.

By: ilona andrews

ilona andrews — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:24:41 +0000

Must Love Hellhounds has some interesting stuff in it.

I heard it’s pretty good.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:05:45 +0000

Charlene, the Linda Howards’ novella is “Lake of Dreams”

By: Charlene Teglia

Charlene Teglia — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:00:18 +0000

Fave historical novella: Loretta Chase’s The Mad Earl’s Bride. Linda Howard wrote a fabulous paranormal about a reincarnation romance, where the hero and heroine keep dying together because they don’t trust each other, would have to look up the name. The Guy Diet in the new Blaze anthology What I Did On My Summer Vacation is awesome for contemp.

By: azteclady

azteclady — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:36:00 +0000

“Falling for Anthony” is a favorite Seriously, I think he’s still my favorite Guardian.

I’m with you on Emma Holly’s “Night Owl” and in Marjorie M. Liu’s “A Dream of Stone and Shadow” (Charlie has to be one of the best heroes ever, period.)

However, I’m usually very harsh on novellas so I don’t read as many.

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:22:42 +0000

oooh your list has many of my favs too plus some I shall be checking out! and how about Mad Dog Love by Angela Knight in the Shifter anthology (she’s royalty and he’s a shifter protecting her), or Wolf Moon by Nora Roberts in the Moon Shadows anthology (he’s a vet and doesn’t blink an eye when he meets her werewolf side).

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:22:36 +0000

I’d say Vicki Pettersson’s ‘The Harvest’ in HOLIDAYS ARE HELL was pretty amazing. And talking of that anthology, Marjorie Liu’s ‘Six’ was fabulously gritty with superb world-building. :bmww:

By: PJ

PJ — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:40:56 +0000

I don’t know about lately, but one of my all-time favorites is “Originally Human” by Eileen Wilks from the Cravings anthology. ::adores!::

And I second Rachel Caine’s story, “Dead Man’s Chest.”

By: Jennifer Estep

Jennifer Estep — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:29:28 +0000

It’s more a short story than a novella, but I’d recommend “Dead Man’s Chest” by Rachel Caine in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding. It’s about pirates. Loved it and the follow-up story in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon so much that I bought the first book in her Weather Warden urban fantasy series to try.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like anthos are more of a fantasy/paranormal thing. I can’t think of a single historical antho off the top of my head, other than the one that has Lady Whistledown in the title and features Julia Quinn and some other authors …