Minnie's Fiction Addiction
Because one more chapter is never enough
Category: Book Review
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First published in 1966, In Cold Blood is Truman Capote’s groundbreaking “nonfiction novel” that reconstructs the brutal 1959 murder of the Clutter family in rural Kansas. Through meticulous research, Capote pieces together the events leading up to the crime, the aftermath, the manhunt for the killers , Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and their eventual trial and…
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Alix Summer is a popular podcaster known for documenting the lives of interesting women. One evening, while out celebrating her birthday, she meets Josie Fair — a woman born on the same day, at the same hospital. Josie is quiet, awkward, and strangely fixated on Alix. She proposes herself as a podcast subject, claiming her…
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True-crime author Amanda Bailey is investigating the chilling case of the Alperton Angels, a doomsday cult whose members believed a teenage girl was about to give birth to the Antichrist. Nearly two decades after a bloody night that left several people dead, Amanda is trying to track down the now-adult baby for a new book.…
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Book Summary:Yellowface follows June Hayward, a struggling white writer who witnesses the sudden death of her friend, Athena Liu, a brilliant and celebrated Asian American author. In a split-second decision, June steals Athena’s unpublished manuscript and publishes it under the ambiguous name “Juniper Song.” As June’s literary star rises, she’s forced to navigate a world of…
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👀 First Impressions:As someone who reads a lot of thrillers, I was curious to see how The Curfew would measure up. The story centres on a group of teenagers who break their curfew one night, and when one of them goes missing, long-buried secrets begin to surface. The fallout pulls their parents into a tense and tangled…
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George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, was a British author and journalist best known for his sharp takes on politics, power, and society. You’ve probably heard of 1984, but Animal Farm is another of his most famous works, first published in 1945. On the surface, it’s a short fable about animals on a farm, but underneath, it’s a…
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Michelle McNamara was an American true crime journalist and the creator of the popular blog True Crime Diary, where she chronicled cold cases and unsolved crimes. Her fascination with the Golden State Killer, a serial rapist and murderer who terrorised California in the 1970s and ’80s—became her life’s work. McNamara spent years researching the case,…
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Four long-time friends, Maggie, Liz, Helena, and Joni, set out on a hiking adventure in Norway to reconnect and escape their busy lives. But the beautiful landscape soon becomes a dangerous setting as tensions rise, secrets emerge, and one of them goes missing. What follows is a tense, emotional journey where survival and truth become…
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The Unwilling is a gripping mix of family drama, crime, and coming-of-age tension set in 1970s North Carolina. The story follows Gibby, a teenager caught between his grieving parents and his older brother Jason, who’s just returned home from prison after serving in Vietnam. As Gibby is drawn into Jason’s dangerous world, a violent murder pulls…
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Kindred is about Dana, a young Black woman from 1976 California, who suddenly finds herself being pulled back in time to a plantation in 1800s Maryland. There, she meets Rufus, a white ancestor of hers, and realizes she’s been brought back to save his life—because if he doesn’t survive, she won’t exist in the future. Every…
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