Lyndsie Manusos

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Romance Novellas to Devour in One Sitting

1 week ago | bookriot.com | Lyndsie Manusos

I love a good novella, and I especially love good genre novellas. Make it a romance novella, and you’ve put me on cloud nine. Not only are romance novellas fantastic stories in their own right, they are also brilliant tools that are often utilized in long-running romance series. They can set the foundation of a series, bridge stories, or act as bonus content for seeing your favorite characters all together for a particular event or holiday.
4 Romance Novellas: Short, Sweet, and (Some) Spicy Reads

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Lyndsie Manusos

Love Carrie Bradshaw’s Romantic Maximalist Style? These 11 Amazon Dresses Nail The LookWith Season 3 of And Just Like That here, we're all tuned in for Carrie Bradshaw's greatest love story: fashion. Her style has always walked the line …
6 New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Short Story Collections to Devour in 2025

2 weeks ago | bookriot.com | Lyndsie Manusos

Any time I get the opportunity to showcase short fiction, short fiction collections, and/or fiction anthologies, I go for it. Speculative short story collections are truly my favorite form. When I was a freshman in college, an English professor recommended Aimee Bender’s The Girl in the Flammable Skirt and Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. After devouring these collections, something in my psyche clicked into place: This was the work I wanted to read. This was the work I wanted to write.
6 New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Collections and Anthologies to Devour in 2025

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Lyndsie Manusos

15 hours agoCommentary: The Apple Watch's new coaching feature in watchOS 26 taps your fitness data for live feedback, but don't expect detailed training plans just yet. I was expecting, and hoping, Apple would launch some kind of AI-powered health feature on the Apple Watch at WWDC 2025, but Workout Buddy …
4 Horror Novellas, Perfect for Bite-Sized Frights

1 month ago | bookriot.com | Lyndsie Manusos

Ah, the horror novella. A bite-sized scream in your hands. Horror novellas are one of my favorite genres. They are tales of horror that are short enough to take a day or two to get through, and yet the intensity is still as fierce as that of a novel– perhaps even fiercer with the shorter word count and knife-sharp execution. I’ve described in some of my previous Book Riot posts the differences between novels, novellas, and the even shorter novelettes.
8 Gothic Romantasy Books That Will Haunt Your Heart

2 months ago | bookriot.com | Lyndsie Manusos

Romantasy is having a moment, y’all, as we’ve seen across bestseller lists, specialized shelves in bookstores, and deep dives into what the genre means and is (or isn’t; your mileage may vary) doing for literature as a whole. Before the boom of romantasy, the genre was usually classified as romantic fantasy or fantasy romance, depending on what plot was more focused on. Even before that, there was the classic gothic romance. But, dear reader, have you ever heard of the gothic romantasy?
Seeking Truth: 8 SFF Mystery and Thrillers to Keep You Guessing

Mar 28, 2025 | bookriot.com | Lyndsie Manusos

Hyperion AvenueLisa Jewell’s Breaking the Dark kicks off the Marvel Crime series with a thriller featuring Jessica Jones, a retired superhero turned private investigator. Jessica, living a solitary life in Hell’s Kitchen, is drawn into a case involving a mother, Amber Randall, whose teenage twins have mysteriously changed after a visit to the UK. As Jessica investigates, she uncovers a dark mystery surrounding the twins, a strange girl named Belle, and the eerie village of Barton Wallop.
Seeking Truth: 8 SFF Mystery and Thrillers to Keep You Guessing

Mar 28, 2025 | flipboard.com | Lyndsie Manusos

3 hours agoThrilling, Lush New Historical FictionFagin the Thief by Allison Epstein You might be surprised to learn that Oliver Twist has nothing more than a walk-on part in FAGIN THE THIEF (Doubleday, 321 pp., $28).
8 Genre-Defying Sci-Fi Books that Resist Expectations

Jan 16, 2025 | bookriot.com | Vajra Chandrasekera |Lavanya Lakshminarayan |Lyndsie Manusos

I’ve written about genre-blending science fiction in the past: lists of books and stories where genre is blended, re-molded, and made something new. Genre-blending, in any and all genres, is something very near and dear to me, as both a reader and writer. It’s the excitement and temptation to tell stories that contain multitudes, for we, as artists and as people, contain multitudes. Now, let’s talk about genre-defying books. And there is a difference, dear reader, between the two.
8 Genre-Defying Sci-Fi Books that Resist Expectations

Jan 16, 2025 | flipboard.com | Lyndsie Manusos

8 hours agoIf you're doing Dry January and find yourself turning to sweet treats, you're not alone. At least 25% of Americans who drink alcohol participate in Dry January, giving adults a taste of what life is like without booze. Beyond this month of sobriety, a growing percentage of people in the United …