#5OnMyTBR is a bookish meme hosted by E. @ Local Bee Hunter’s Nook and you can learn more about it here. It occurs every Monday when we post about 5 books on our TBR.
I love novellas. I think they can be so effective, and a real demonstration of a writer’s skill! I think it’s going to be fun checking what novellas I currently have sitting on my shelves waiting to be read! These are all horror, as that seems to be the genre I have the most novellas for.
#5OnMyTBR August 14th: Novella
Some Kind of Monster by Tim Waggoner
Format: ebook
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
Throughout her life, Angie has lost loved ones to stupid, meaningless deaths. As an adult she begins researching urban legends, hoping to find proof that something exists beyond our mundane world. Is there magic? Is there an existence beyond this life? Is there any kind of meaning to it all even if that meaning is a dark one? In the end, Angie will get her answer, and she’ll learn that reality isn’t just darker than she thinks: It’s some kind of monster.
Format: ebook
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy’s eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain.
The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels something within him changing —physically—into something his grandfather welcomes and his mother fears. Something abyssal. Something monstrous.
After Midnight by Shari Nichols
Format: ebook
Genre: Fantasy
Age: Adult
An ancient curse has prevented astrologer Brooke Howe from ever finding true love. Using her gift to match other people up, she refuses to lose hope of becoming free. When Nico Denopoulos, the gorgeous younger brother of a friend, struts into her shop seeking a soulmate, she’s immediately drawn to his magnetic presence and his romantic heart. But why does she get this bone-deep sensation that’s she’s known him before? Could Nico hold the secret to reversing the curse and be the key to her destiny?
An ugly divorce has kept Nico laser-focused on his work as a chef, and the opening of his new restaurant. He’s been alone for years, but now loneliness has crept into the cracks of his heart. Fearing that he‘s grown bitter, he has high hopes that the beautiful and mysterious Brooke can help him with his problem, except for one thing— he wants her for himself. He never expected to connect with her on such a deep level.
As much as Brooke wants to believe Nico is the real deal, she fears that when the seasons change so will his feelings. Will a secret from their shared pasts bring them closer, or tear them apart forever?
Format: ebook
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
Meet Toadling. On the day of her birth, she was stolen from her family by the fairies, but she grew up safe and loved in the warm waters of faerieland. Once an adult though, the fae ask a favor of Toadling: return to the human world and offer a blessing of protection to a newborn child. Simple, right?
If only.
Centuries later, a knight approaches a towering wall of brambles, where the thorns are as thick as your arm and as sharp as swords. He’s heard there’s a curse here that needs breaking, but it’s a curse Toadling will do anything to uphold…
Format: ebook
Genre: Horror
Age: Adult
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At night she dreams of a beautiful woman with pointed teeth on the shore of a blood-red sea.
The new voice in Amanda’s head, the one that tells her to steal things and talk to strange men in bars, is strange and frightening, and Amanda struggles to wrest back control of her life. Is she possessed by a demon, or is she simply insane? Described as “a new kind of psychological thriller” by George Pelecanos and “this year’s scariest novel” by Time Out New York, Come Closer has become a modern classic “with a kick that will stay with the reader for days afterward” (The Dallas Morning News).
As always, if you’ve read any of these, feel free to point me towards your reviews or just let me know what you thought about them. Would love to hear your thoughts!
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