Minnie's Fiction Addiction
Because one more chapter is never enough
Category: Book Review
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👀 First impressions:I went into The List intrigued by the premise, a couple at the height of their power and popularity brought down by an anonymous online allegation. It promised a collision of cancel culture, feminism, and media, and it definitely delivered a lot to unpack. From the first chapter, I could feel the tension simmering under…
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👀 First impressions:I’d heard of The Nickel Boys as one of those modern must-reads, the kind of book that gets mentioned in the same breath as “important” and “unforgettable.” I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, but from the very first chapter, I was hooked by Colson Whitehead’s sharp prose and the quiet tension that runs through…
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Mr. Mercedes kicks off Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy with a gripping blend of crime, suspense, and psychological tension. The story begins with a horrific act: a stolen Mercedes ploughs into a crowd of jobseekers, killing eight. The case goes cold, until retired detective Bill Hodges receives a cryptic letter from someone claiming to be the…
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Gary Thorn, a disenchanted legal assistant living a quiet, unremarkable life in London, finds his routine disrupted after a drink at the pub with a work acquaintance turns into something much stranger. When he meets a mysterious woman (over a shared satsuma, no less) and she disappears shortly afterward, Gary is drawn into an offbeat…
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When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she expects a humble family visit. What she doesn’t know is that Nick is the heir to one of Asia’s richest and most secretive dynasties — and that she’s about to be thrust into a glittering world of private jets,…
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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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