The Fiction Addiction https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ Book reviews with all the feelings Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:41:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 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 Daisy https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/daisy/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/daisy/#respond Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:36:55 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=17821 Katie Cotugno’s upoming novel Daisy is a revisiting of The Great Gatsby, from Daisy’s perspective, opening after the events of that novel. Daisy takes place in the present day, even if the characters do go to a lot of jazz clubs and 20s-themed parties. Meh.  Some of this is on me, I think. I enjoyed […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/daisy/feed/ 0 17821 Book Lovers Day https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/book-lovers-day/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/book-lovers-day/#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:25:58 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=17804 Obviously, every day is Book Lovers Day for me personally, but here are some extra suggestions to celebrate books on the official holiday, August 9th. You can visit your local independent bookstore and browse for a new book. You can post a recommended new release or an all-time favorite book on your social media. (Like […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/book-lovers-day/feed/ 0 17804 Feed https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/feed-2/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/feed-2/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:02:16 +0000 https://1morechapterblog.wordpress.com/?p=241 I don’t remember how I came across M T Anderson’s novel Feed, but I went into it thinking it was just science fiction, and not an extremely dark dystopia. That might be the ideal way to come at it, kind of like when I thought Never Let Me Go was about a boarding school. (Spoiler: […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/feed-2/feed/ 2 241 Book Review: Where Spectres Dwell https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/book-review-where-spectres-dwell/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/book-review-where-spectres-dwell/#respond Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:17:32 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16674 Tyson Gill’s Where Spectres Dwell is a fantasy adventure that simply loves fantasy fiction. Ramille begins his life as an orphan with more abilities than the other kids being raised by the Sisters. But just when you think this is going to be a typical Chosen-One fantasy, he's is involved in an accident that changes the course of the world.

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/book-review-where-spectres-dwell/feed/ 0 16674 Ghost Station https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ghost-station/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ghost-station/#comments Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:47:19 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=11455 Ghost Station, by S A Barnes, is a new space suspense story.  The novel’s tension comes from a distant, deep-space setting and from interpersonal secrets among the crew, long before introducing the truly unsettling ancient alien species, with darkly nonhuman goals and actions. When the story opens, Ophelia Bray takes a contract job as a […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ghost-station/feed/ 3 11455 The Modest Ao Dai https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-modest-ao-dai/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-modest-ao-dai/#respond Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:55:51 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16589 In Leila Vinnik’s upcoming novel, The Modest Ao Dai, Jamie Nguyen-Do is a Jewish-Vietnamese college student and aspiring writer. Jamie wants to write something true and authentic about the experiences of Jewish Asians like herself, a perspective she rarely sees. Looking for inspiration and community, she posts on Facebook looking for stories to tell. On […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-modest-ao-dai/feed/ 0 16589 Star Lore: Sorcerer Sleuth https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/star-lore-sorcerer-sleuth/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/star-lore-sorcerer-sleuth/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:00:16 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16474 I’m always interested in a good sci-fi mystery, and when you add good team dynamics and magic, I’m probably already halfway to adding it to my TBR. Star Lore: Sorcerer Sleuth, by Kris Powers, has the ingredients of a fun adventure, with magic and wild future tech in space.  The titular sorcerer/sleuth is Aurora Blacknova, […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/star-lore-sorcerer-sleuth/feed/ 1 16474 The Machine Stops: Touch Grass https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-machine-stops-touch-grass/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-machine-stops-touch-grass/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:50:42 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=12911 I was pretty surprised when I discovered E M Forster wrote a science fiction novella, The Machine Stops. Like most readers, I think, I know Forster from Passage to India and Maurice, so I was very interested to see how he imagined the scifi future.  In the future, a Machine keeps all humans cared for, […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-machine-stops-touch-grass/feed/ 2 12911 The Unknown Before Us https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-unknown-before-us/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-unknown-before-us/#respond Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:31:28 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16406 In J L Butterworth’s The Unknown Before Us, Arcadia is happily exploring the edges of known space, looking for wild and adorable animals with her AI buddy Exbee, when she discovers an old Earth soldier, Blaze, who’s been in stasis for the last 200 years. Let’s talk about the amazing worldbuilding first.  Slice-of-life scifi can […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/the-unknown-before-us/feed/ 0 16406 Paradox Inc. https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/paradox-inc/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/paradox-inc/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:52:21 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16301 Paradox Inc. is a satirical and dystopian sci-fi novel by Forrest Brazeal, imagining realistic tech bros with the power of time travel.  In an extremely familiar near-future, the tech industry has developed consumer time travel.  Blebs, the branding for time-travel bubbles, allow anyone who can afford it to go back in time. Of course, there are […]

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