Minnie's Fiction Addiction
Because one more chapter is never enough
Category: Book Review
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👀 First impressions:The Jump opens with a chilling promise that freedom is never quite what it seems. At the heart of the story is Donna Brunos, a woman whose love for her imprisoned husband borders on obsession. Convinced that Georgio has been framed for armed robbery, Donna commits to an extraordinary and dangerous plan to break him…
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👀 First impressions:The Starving Saints opens in desperation. Aymar Castle has been under siege for six months, food is almost gone, and survival itself has become a moral question. When divine figures arrive offering miracles, healing, and endless feasts in exchange for devotion, hope curdles into something far more disturbing. The premise immediately promises religious horror rooted…
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👀 First impressions:Under the Eagle is the opening book in the Eagles of the Empire series and wastes no time throwing the reader into the grit and discipline of the Roman army. Set during the invasion of Britain, the story follows young aristocrat Cato and hardened veteran Macro as they are forced to work together in a…
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👀 First impressions:Matrix opens with exile and rejection. Born from a long line of female warriors and crusaders but deemed too coarse for courtly life, Marie de France is cast out of the royal court and sent to Angleterre to become prioress of a failing abbey. What initially feels like punishment soon becomes opportunity, as Marie begins…
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👀 First impressions:What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez opens in the glittering world of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, where Inez Olivera appears to have everything except the parents she longs for. When news arrives that they have died in mysterious circumstances, Inez’s carefully ordered life fractures. Determined to uncover the truth, she travels alone to Cairo, armed with…
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👀 First impressions:The Home Front by Kristin Hannah is an intimate and often painful examination of a marriage on the brink. Michael and Jolene Zarkades appear to have built a stable and successful life together, but beneath the surface their relationship has begun to fracture. When an unexpected military deployment forces them apart, the novel shifts from domestic strain…
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👀 First impressions:The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland opens in Berlin in 1943 with an apparently civilised tea party that masks extraordinary danger. Around the table sit aristocrats, intellectuals and social leaders, united by their hatred of Nazism and their quiet acts of resistance. What they do not realise is that one of them is about to betray the…
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👀 First impressions:The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett plunges the reader into the volatile heart of seventeenth century England through the life of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Favourite and lover to King James I and later closest companion and mentor to Charles I, Buckingham rose with astonishing speed from relative obscurity to immense wealth and political power. Hughes Hallett…
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👀 First impressions:Beloved, written by Toni Morrison, is one of those books that carries its reputation heavily and deservedly. Inspired by the true story of Margaret Garner, the novel is set after the American Civil War and follows Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman living in Ohio with her daughter. When a mysterious young woman calling herself Beloved…
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👀 First impressions:Room for Rent wastes no time establishing its central fear. Nya is broke, exhausted, and counting down the days until she can escape her living situation. The rent is cheap, the house is rundown, and her roommate Sidney is unsettling in ways that are hard to articulate until small incidents begin to stack up. Food…
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