The Fiction Addiction https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/ Book reviews with all the feelings Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:14:09 +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 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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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/paradox-inc/feed/ 0 16301 Remnant Population https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/remnant-population/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/remnant-population/#respond Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:20:08 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=12569 In the beginning of Remnant Population, by Elizabeth Moon, Ofelia has lived on a distant colony planet for decades, working hard in a harsh environment. Her work for Sims Bancorp is dully hostile, and Ofelia fully accepts that this is life.  This is just life on an isolated planet that’s hostile to human life, working […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/remnant-population/feed/ 0 12569 Pie & Alien Invasion in “Key Lime Sky” https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/key-lime-sky/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/key-lime-sky/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:12:55 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16266 Key Lime Sky, by Al Hess, had a lot of things I love — desserts, friendship team up, blogging, and extremely weird but consistent aliens. Denver is an aspiring pie reviewer who also takes whatever writing jobs will let them earn a little money and avoid people. I’m more of the ghostwriting content freelance generation, […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/key-lime-sky/feed/ 0 16266 Writers of the Future 42 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/writers-of-the-future-42/ https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/writers-of-the-future-42/#respond Thu, 28 May 2026 17:19:09 +0000 https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/?p=16231 I always look forward to the Writers of the Future collection, every year there are great new scifi / fantasy authors to discover. Last year, I thought the collection’s theme was AI, but wasn’t that kind of the theme of life in 2025? This year, for Writers of the Future 42, I thought the common […]

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]]> https://www.thefictionaddiction.com/writers-of-the-future-42/feed/ 0 16231 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/ 2 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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