I love those novellas that tell a different story within the main story. Normally they're about the best friend of the main character in the series, but sometimes they're a few exceptions. Here are my favourite 5 novellas of all time:
- Finding Cinderella by Colleen Hoover
The love story between Daniel and Six is as powerful as Sky and Dean's. They're some pretty intense moments in here, but it made what they were feeling for each other much more stronger and meaningfull. This novella was quite a journey.
- In Time by Alexandra Bracken
I actually cried when I finished reading this. I felt so much more reading this short story than with the book of this series. The Darkest Minds was a pretty amazing book, so of course I decided to pick this one. I was not aware of how much of a rollercoaster of emotions this was going to be. I completely forgot this was a novella until the final pages. I was so into the story. It made me smile, and laugh, and want to hug my pillow and cry very very hard.
- Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi made me root for the "bay" guy, you know why? Cause he isn't a really bad guy at all! We had a brave, sweet, spectacular love interest, but after this? He's so boring! Warner became SO interesting. He feels so deeply and now I completely believe Juliette and him are meant to be. One should see all the points of view before making a decision people. This novella changed my view on Shatter me and made me wish for a different ending!
- Cloud Walking by A. Meredith Walters
Find you in the dark was such a hard book, and this novella was refreshing. I was so happy about their cloud walking love, and it was good seeing how it was completely different from Maggie and Clay's devouring, intense love. Daniel and Rachel's love was easy as breathing, when Maggie and Clay's was a struggle every single day. I love the contrast between the book and this novella.
- Crossing The Line by Katie McGarry
I really loved Lila and Lincoln together: their story was so interesting and different! The letters were beautiful, and I think this could easily have been a book. I mean, write more about their letters, how they've met, more about his background story, and how they ended together in Florida and you've got a book! Still, cute story, and lovely romance, that everybody should read. It can be read independently from the other books as well.
So yeah, those were my favourite novellas. I completely recommend them, cause I ended up loving these wonderful stories. I enjoy as well all of The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare (& Sarah Rees Brennan, or Maureen Johnson): not so much the first two, but they keep getting better and better!
