The Fiction Addiction https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ Book reviews with all the feelings Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:27:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/www.thefictionaddiction.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/cropped-fiction-addiction-FB-icon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 The Fiction Addiction https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ 32 32 81453742 Ruth Ware’s ‘The It Girl’ (Spoiler-Free Reaction) #theitgirlreadalong https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ruth-ware-the-it-girl/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ruth-ware-the-it-girl/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:12:22 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=6100 I was supposed to read The It Girl, by Ruth Ware as part of the Tandem Collective international readalong, but I sort of got ahead of the assigned prompts. This book was hard to put down! I knew I’d like it going in — I always love Ruth Ware thrillers for twisty, not-gory, page-turning suspense stories […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ruth-ware-the-it-girl/feed/ 6 6100 Passengers by Robert Silverberg https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/passengers/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/passengers/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:28:30 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=15480 At first, I thought Passengers was one of those pulp magazine shorts that imagines our world with one change.  These can be funny or dark what-ifs, where one concept lasts through a short story, even if it might not make a whole novel. In Robert Silverberg’s Passengers,  invisible, powerful alien consciousness can possess humans. They […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/passengers/feed/ 0 15480 Retro Reviews: The ABC Murders https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/retro-reviews-the-abc-murders/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/retro-reviews-the-abc-murders/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:29:46 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=10883 In The ABC Murders, Poirot receives as a warning letter, because none of these villains can just do their murders, they have to tell the world-famous detective first. The mysterious ABC writes a taunting letter threatening the murder, and then kills Alice Ascher of Andover, leaving a railroad timetable (called an ABC guide) at the scene.  […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/retro-reviews-the-abc-murders/feed/ 0 10883 Prep School Meh in “The Thoroughbreds” https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/prep-school-meh-in-the-thoroughbreds/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/prep-school-meh-in-the-thoroughbreds/#respond Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:54:03 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=15953 I liked The Academy, a new boarding-school novel with an interesting first-person plural narration, so I was excited to read the sequel, The Thoroughbreds, set at the same school the next year. Unfortunately, even the fun name-dropping of the assigned texts in the students’ boarding school lit class couldn’t save this novel from falling flat. […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/prep-school-meh-in-the-thoroughbreds/feed/ 0 15953 Aurora’s Edge https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/auroras-edge/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/auroras-edge/#respond Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:32:33 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=15938 In Dane Reavers’ new novel, Aurora’s Edge, a teenager escapes a dead-end life in the Dredges by slipping aboard a spaceship. When there’s a disaster on board, she thinks quickly and pretends to be a new engineer. Elara starts putting her skills to work, which means a legit cover story and job, but she slowly […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/auroras-edge/feed/ 0 15938 The Compound https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-compound/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-compound/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:12:33 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=15905 The Compound, by Aisling Rawle, is a page-turning reality show drama, with intriguing commentary on transactional relationships and social performance in 24/7 exposure. Lily wakes up in the compound, which means she’s been picked for an unnamed future reality show.  One of the rules of the show is never talking about the show, or about […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-compound/feed/ 0 15905 This Perfect Day https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/this-perfect-day/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/this-perfect-day/#respond Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:26:19 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=12444 This Perfect Day is one of the many novels inspired by Zamyatin’s early specfic novel We, and Ira Levin is a great author, so I wanted to read it. In this specfic future world, a computer called Uni runs everything optimally. Jobs, relationships, families, and free time activities are all assigned by computer. People, who […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/this-perfect-day/feed/ 0 12444 The Optimist https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-optimist/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-optimist/#respond Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:01:02 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=15867 This is a sponsored post on behalf of Review Wire Media for Trafalgar Releasing. The upcoming movie The Optimist is based on a true story. Inspired by the life of Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller, the film explores how sharing one’s story—even after decades of silence—can open the door to healing. As a teenager, Herbert escaped […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-optimist/feed/ 0 15867 Unique Scifi Suspense in “We Have Always Been Here” https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/we-have-always-been-here/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/we-have-always-been-here/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:35:58 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=5861 We Have Always Been Here, by Lena Nguyen, is a thoughtful scifi mystery about a colonization ship on a planet where nothing is what it seems on the surface. In this future world of android workers and space colonization, the hardest aspect to accept is that anyone in the galaxy hired Grace Park as a […]

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