Minnie's Fiction Addiction
Because one more chapter is never enough
Tag: Book Review
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👀 First impressions:This book grabbed me immediately, partly because of the setting and partly because of how utterly unhinged the premise is in the best possible way. A struggling band playing awful pubs across the northeast, fictional gods of mishap, and a viral act of violence is already a wild mix, but setting it all in…
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👀 First impressions:The Whispers begins with an incident in the dead of night, centred on the grandest house on Harlow Street and its seemingly perfect occupant, Whitney Loverly. As neighbours, friends and authorities gather to piece together what happened over the previous twenty four hours, Ashley Audrain slowly peels back the polished exterior of suburban success. What…
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👀 First impressions:You Will Never Be Me dives headfirst into the glossy, performative world of influencer culture, where curated perfection masks rivalry, insecurity and obsession. Jesse Sutanto introduces us to two women bound together by motherhood, social media and simmering resentment. From the opening chapters, the novel establishes an atmosphere of comparison and quiet hostility that steadily…
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👀 First impressions:The Defence wastes no time throwing the reader into chaos. Eddie Flynn, former con artist turned lawyer, is forced back into the courtroom under the most terrifying circumstances imaginable. With a bomb strapped to his back and his young daughter kidnapped, Eddie has forty eight hours to defend a notorious Russian mafia boss accused of…
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👀 First impressions:This book opens quietly, almost deceptively so. Birdie is surviving rather than living, working long shifts, drinking a little too much, and doing everything she can to keep life steady for her daughter, Emaleen. From the start, the setting does a lot of emotional work. The small town and the looming mountains feel both…
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👀 First impressions:The premise of this book immediately drew me in. A couple moving into their dream home only to discover two bodies buried in the garden is exactly the kind of unsettling setup that makes you want to keep reading. From the very beginning, there is a strong sense that the past is not done…
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👀 First impressions:Ghosted opens quietly but with an immediate sense of unease. Laurie’s husband disappears without drama or spectacle, leaving behind his phone and wallet, and the absence feels almost mundane at first. Laurie continues her routines, cleaning at the university, visiting her father who is slipping further into dementia, and drinking alone in her high…
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👀 First impressions:The Midnight Rose is classic Lucinda Riley in scope and ambition, weaving together two timelines rich with romance, mystery and emotional depth. Beginning in India in 1911, the novel introduces Anahita Chavan, whose friendship with the spirited Princess Indira alters the course of her life forever. The story later shifts to the late twentieth century,…
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👀 First impressions:Earthly Possessions opens with a familiar Anne Tyler theme of dissatisfaction simmering beneath ordinary life. Charlotte Emory is thirty five, restless and quietly suffocating in a marriage and routine that no longer feel like her own. What begins as a practical decision to leave her husband takes an abrupt and surreal turn when a bank…
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👀 First impressions:The Barn is not just a retelling of a crime but an excavation of silence. Wright Thompson approaches the murder of Emmett Till with the understanding that the story most people think they know is incomplete by design. Beginning with his own upbringing in Mississippi, Thompson frames the book around absence and omission, asking why such a…
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