The Fiction Addiction https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ Book reviews with all the feelings Fri, 22 May 2026 13:24:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 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 The Likeness https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-likeness/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-likeness/#comments Wed, 20 May 2026 05:20:51 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=4818 The premise of Tana French’s The Likeness is almost too unbelievable: A murder victim is found who looks exactly like undercover investigator Cassie Maddox. It’s a bit of a stretch, but the wild premise works because the characters all know it’s just so insanely unlikely. The cops are all constantly aware that this likeness is […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-likeness/feed/ 2 4818 The Women in White https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-women-in-white/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-women-in-white/#comments Mon, 18 May 2026 18:39:22 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16112 The Women in White is another great dark, suspenseful Sarah Pekkanen novel. I love how this author always writes page-turners, full of gore-free suspense, so I almost didn't care about the specifics. This is an unusual one because it's a historical thriller. 

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-women-in-white/feed/ 1 16112 Meet the Benedettos https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/meet-the-benedettos/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/meet-the-benedettos/#comments Mon, 18 May 2026 00:08:06 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=10719 Meet the Benedettos, by Katie Cotugno, is a reality show/Jane Austen mashup. Five sisters struggles to escape being a reality-TV punchline and turn their fame into something lasting, as their social-climbing mother and gauche New Jersey father ignore their upcoming foreclosure. Oddly, this isn’t my first Pride and Prejudice reality show retelling. Curtis Sittenfeld’s Eligible […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/meet-the-benedettos/feed/ 2 10719 The Thorn and The Blossom By Theodora Goss https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-thorn-and-the-blossom-by-theodora-goss/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-thorn-and-the-blossom-by-theodora-goss/#respond Sat, 16 May 2026 12:38:47 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=11486 I do 90% of my reading on an ereader, which is convenient for commute reading, easily brings me the sequel to the novel I’ve just finished, and fits neatly into my purse. So I was struck by the physical form of Theodora Goss’ book The Thorn And The Blossom, an accordion-folded, double-sided story, in a […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-thorn-and-the-blossom-by-theodora-goss/feed/ 0 11486 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/ 7 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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