George Dunn
@georgesreads.bsky.social
đ¤ 1233
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Horror reader Reviewer for fanfiaddict.com
A groovy, glittery supernova of a roadtrip novel that will wrap a feather boa around your neck and garrote you,
@chucktingle.bsky.social
âs latest, âFabulous Bodies,â reeks of hairspray and is the very essence of rock n roll baby. (JULY 7TH
@tornightfire.bsky.social
@titanbooks.bsky.social
)
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Review: Fabulous Bodies by Chuck Tingle | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Poppy Stringer was born to be a star.An aspiring fashion influencer by day, Poppy moonlights as a grave robber to make ends meet, wheeling and dea ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-fabulous-bodies-by-chuck-tingle-2/
2 days ago
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Itâs the critical consensus that
@pfracassi.bsky.social
can WRITEâ bold, all caps. What his latest collection Traps and Specters has confirmed to me however, is that he can write pretty much anything. You get a whole lot of bang for your buck here.
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
9/22
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Review: Traps and Specters by Philip Fracassi | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: From the mind of Stoker and British Fantasy award-nominated author Philip Fracassi comes fourteen stories of the macabre that will frighten, distu ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-traps-and-specters-by-philip-fracassi/
4 days ago
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Headlights by
@ceejthemoment.bsky.social
will crawl under your skin and wear it. Tense, intelligent, gruesome, heart-breaking and ferocious in its pacing, it lays bare on the asphalt themes of fear, trauma, memory, relationships and grief under high beams. OUT TODAY
@tornightfire.bsky.social
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Review: Headlights by CJ Leede | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Special Agent Daniel Stansfield is ready for a change. Burnt out and defeated by the job, itâs his last day with the FBI. But before he can turn i ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-headlights-by-cj-leede-2/
9 days ago
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Read my liminal horror recommendations via THE
@phantasmagpress.bsky.social
www.phantasmag.com/articles-3/b...
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'Backrooms' Reading List: 5 Must-Read Liminal Horror Novels â PHANTASMAG
https://www.phantasmag.com/articles-3/backrooms-reading-list-must-read-liminal-horror-books
16 days ago
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âThis B Just Wonât Die,â has an important message at its heart, one that
@tanyapell.bsky.social
clearly had no qualms about splitting it down the middle and cracking open its ribcage to get to. A bloody good time for those who thought âScream,â lacked sequins. (OCTOBER 13TH)
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Review: This B Just Won't Die by Tanya Pell | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Former scream queen Barbra Jacobs desperately wants to break out of the box Hollywood has neatly packaged her in. Cast as the star of the Mirror h ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-this-b-just-wont-die-by-tanya-pell/
28 days ago
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Iâm a very serious journalist
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about 1 month ago
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The new one by
@keithrosson.bsky.social
will hit you like a barbed-wire-wrapped brick. Itâs a viscerally unpleasant, particularly wretched novel that makes the average noir look fluffy. Out September 22nd.
@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
@blackcrowbooks.bsky.social
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Review: Crone by Keith Rosson | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Eli Lamp is a broken man. An ex-detective, ex-addict, and long-grieving father whose daughter, Hannah, disappeared a decade before, Eli decimated ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-crone-by-keith-rosson/
about 1 month ago
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I went to an awesome event at an indie bookshop today, followed by sitting on the panel of my dreams. I love it here.
about 1 month ago
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âKiss Slay Replay,â by
@rachelharrison.bsky.social
is a brain-frazzling, time-looping wedding slasher for fans of Chuck Tingle and Happy Death Day. Beyond masterful and thoroughly entertaining. (SEPTEMBER 8TH-
@berkleypub.bsky.social
@titanbooks.bsky.social
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Review: Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Will this nightmare ever end? Itâs the picture-perfect wedding weekendâthe venue is dreamy, the weather is beautiful, love is in the air, and Will ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-kiss-slay-replay-by-rachel-harrison/
about 2 months ago
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A worth the wait novel, âMarla,â by
@jonathanjanz.bsky.social
is a twisty, turny story of real terror that didnât just leave me guessing but was actively delighted to watch me get it wrong and wrong again. AUG 18TH-
@blackstonepub.bsky.social
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Review: Marla by Jonathan Janz | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Every small town has ghosts. King's Branch has Marla. A reclusive young woman who lives with her mother in a creepy Gothic house, M ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-marla-by-jonathan-janz-2/
about 2 months ago
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It's time for the first look⌠đđŞ We are thrilled to reveal that KISS SLAY REPLAY by Rachel Harrison will feature these stunning sprayed and stencilled edges! Every wedding guestâs worst nightmare is on repeat in this time loop horror story. Coming September 2026 đЏ
https://tinyurl.com/8hnyv2pe
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A dark fairytale with peat under its fingernails,
@amyjanestewart.bsky.social
âs debut novel âHex House,â is an unputdownable folk horror that finds terror within sanctuary. Warm and welcoming and wide-open doors until of course, itâs notâŚ
@titanbooks.bsky.social
APR 28TH
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Review: Hex House by Amy Jane Stewart | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: ELLYElly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Becau ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-hex-house-by-amy-jane-stewart/
2 months ago
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âBrokeula,â by Michael Seidlinger is âa pacy, fang-forward piece of horror comedy that takes a generous bite out of late-stage capitalism and sinks its teeth into the circus of bullshittery that accompanies it.â JULY 7TH-
@clashbooks.bsky.social
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Review: Brokeula by Michael J Seidlinger | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: A broke vampireâs last ditch effort to escape the blood sucking monster of capitalism through an ill-conceived multi-level marketing scheme. James ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-brokeula-by-michael-j-seidlinger/
2 months ago
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âThe Other,â by
@annieneugebauer.bsky.social
is that one Spider-Man pointing meme meets Invasion of The Body Snatchers. A single-sitting, no-messing nightmare that is proficient in eliciting almost every subcategory of horror.
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
- June 9th
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Review: The Other by Annie Neugebauer | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: A couple on an outdoor retreat meet their doppelgangers on a hiking trail and are soon tested on how well they truly know each other. Review: Well ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-other-by-annie-neugebauer/
2 months ago
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@ronaldmalfi.bsky.social
âsâThe Hive,â will make your ears ring and your molars ache and imprint strange symbols on the insides of your eyelids. Doors, chairs, dragons, metal spiders and conceptual gnomes. (
@titanbooks.bsky.social
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Review: The Hive by Ronald Malfi | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: The residents of Marinerâs Cove are changing⌠In the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people o ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-hive-by-ronald-malfi/
2 months ago
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3 months ago
My fellow writers might not want to hear this, but AI is a useful tool for certain aspects of the craft, like for instance when youâre engaged in the process of being a talentless shitbag hack who is too lazy to do any fucking writing.
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Good point! I don't use AI because I'm not a fucking idiot.
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This review of THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS by
@georgesreads.bsky.social
at
@fanfiaddict.bsky.social
has made my day. Dunn calls the book "A stunningly written, viscerally scary, and deeply emotive novel." Full review in comments!
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social
@kensingtonbooks.bsky.social
#BookSky
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âFar removed from windswept moors or crumbling manors,
@tamikathompson.bsky.social
âs trad-pub debut brings the gothic to a public housing project in Michigan, in a chilling examination of gun violence and the supernatural in tandem.â
@erewhonbooks.bsky.social
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Review: The Curse of Hester Gardens by Tamika Thompson | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Nona McKinley raised three boys in the Hester Gardens section of Medford, Michigan, an impoverished community divided by those who follow their fa ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-curse-of-hester-gardens-by-tamika-thompson/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I'm reading an advance copy of
@paultremblay.bsky.social
's upcoming horror novel DEAD BUT DREAMING OF ELECTRIC SHEEP and, lemme just say, Paul is an incredible writer! Alternating between conventional and non-conventional narrative, it sinks its claws and DRAGS YOU IN. How does he do it?? Amazing â
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A grotty, grungy novel that you will have to swipe grime off of the pages of, and swat lazy loops of humming blue-bottles away from âHunger and Thirst,â by Claire Fuller is one of the grimmest coming-of-age, or rather, coming apart, stories I have ever read.
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Review: Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: 1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job in the postroom of a ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-hunger-and-thirst-by-claire-fuller/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Carterknowle Juniorâs crumbling roof has been allocated ÂŁ720,000 by
#Sheffield
City Council, following serious safety concerns. Read the full
@shef-live.bsky.social
story here:âŹď¸
shef-live.co.uk/index.php/20...
#Carterknowle
#Ecclesall
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Collapsing school roof rescued with ÂŁ720k cash boost amid pupils and teachers safety concerns | ShefLive
https://shef-live.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/17/collapsing-school-roof-rescued-with-720k-cash-boost-amid-pupils-and-teachers-safety-concerns/
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âYouthjuice,â by E.K Sathue is a toxic, aseptic, retinol-soaked book that chemical burnt my fingertips and exfoliated the pores off of my face.
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Review: Youthjuice by E.K Sathue | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: A 29-year-old copywriter realizes that beauty is possibleâat a terrible costâin this surreal, satirical send-up of NYC It-girl culture. From Sophi ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-youthjuice-by-e-k-sathue/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
What a lovely (spoiler free) review!
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âEqual parts existential horror, Silicon-Valley-skewering satire, and philosophical joke,
@paultremblay.bsky.social
âs âDead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep,â is written with the usual amount of ambiguity, plus metatextuality, manic intelligence, and justifiable rage.â
@harpercollins.bsky.social
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Review: Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep by Paul Tremblay | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesnât like. Out of ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-dead-but-dreaming-of-electric-sheep-by-paul-tremblay/
3 months ago
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âThe Brides,â by
@charlottecross.bsky.social
feels as though it has been stored for a century in a dusty writing desk before being pressed into my eager hands. A reverent and rebellious Dracula prequel well worth your time. March 19th
@torbooksuk.bsky.social
July 7th
@harpercollins.bsky.social
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Review: The Brides by Charlotte Cross | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: 'Come to me, and be mine for eternity'1884. When Mafalda journeys to Budapest to care for her grieving aunt, her secret love, Lucy, hurr ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-brides-by-charlotte-cross-2/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A
#Burngreave
Councillor has spoken out about the violence at
#FirValeAcademy
last month, which saw a member of staff carried out on a stretcher. Latest on
@shef-live.bsky.social
here: âŹď¸
shef-live.co.uk/index.php/20...
#Sheffield
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Violence at Fir Vale Academy Addressed by Councillor | ShefLive
https://shef-live.co.uk/index.php/2026/03/10/violence-at-fir-vale-academy-addressed-by-councillor/
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Concentrated doses of cruelty, discomfort, and sorrow, written as well as one would expect, whilst I have no doubt
@ronaldmalfi.bsky.social
can handle 1000 pages, We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone, goes to show he is equally capable of making you just as uneasy in 10.
@titanbooks.bsky.social
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Review: We Should Have Left Well Enough Alone by Ronald Malfi | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Twenty haunting stories from the Bram Stoker Award nominated, and bestselling author of Come With Me. A man leaves rehab and tries to make a ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-we-should-have-left-well-enough-alone-by-ronald-malfi/
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Our freshest ep of Fearmongers is now live and listenable! Fostering Your Horror Community w/ Lindy Ryan, V. Castro, Saratoga Schaefer & Chris Panatier Apple:
bit.ly/471bMT5
Spotify:
bit.ly/4rDvo8d
Amazon:
bit.ly/4rBHtL5
YouTube:
bit.ly/4aBfXaz
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In her funny and vicious debut, âFor Human Use,â Pierce wields discomfort intelligently and makes the unthinkable imaginable- all without collapsing into mere shock, provocation or its own audacity.
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Review: For Human Use by Sarah G. Pierce | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Finding a human connection online has become impossible. Enter Liv: a dating app that matches people with dead bodies. Somehow, it has taken the w ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-for-human-use-by-sarah-g-pierce/
4 months ago
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One actual bit of journalism completed. Itâs about freezers.
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4 months ago
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A novel muted by design âWe Spread,â by Iain Reid is not a book I felt the urge to hurl bodily into the nearest oxfam, but nor did it consume me in the way Reidâs best work has. I liked it well enough.
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Review: We Spread by Iain Reid | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Penny, an artist, has lived in the same apartment for decades, surrounded by the artifacts and keepsakes of her long life. She is resigned to the ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-we-spread-by-iain-reid/
4 months ago
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Do you like Hannibal Lecter? If so, two things. a) treat yourself to âHannibal Lecter: A Life,â by
@brianraftery.bsky.social
(PRONTO) out today and b) listen to my interview with this absolute scholar, wherever you get your podcasts.
open.spotify.com/episode/7aFW...
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Brian Raftery on âHannibal Lecter: A Lifeâ
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aFWTuWzEbhUcQ9iWLoZSf?si=ORuCvM65REaY-pSuDo6qHQ
4 months ago
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Bad Hand Books
4 months ago
Pre-order
@alexgrecian.bsky.social
's supernatural thriller today:
badhandbooks.com/purchasedire...
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âThe Boatman,â by
@alexgrecian.bsky.social
is a chilling, driftwood-etched reminder of our own mortality that will cling to you like salt water, and wonât be rinsed off easily. Out from
@badhandbooks.bsky.social
April 7th
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Review: The Boatman by Alex Grecian | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: HE WILL FOLLOW YOU TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH.Shortly after cruise ship the Maria Calypso embarks on its latest voyage, the passengers and crew noti ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-boatman-by-alex-grecian/
4 months ago
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4 months ago
đšđЏ NEW REVIEW! đЏđš First Date by
@manylittlewords.bsky.social
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@daturabooks.bsky.social
"The definitive (anti)dating tale about what it takes for someone to actually be real to another person, strapped to a grim conveyor belt of survival horror that I couldnât stop reading even as I died inside."
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REVIEW: First Date by Gemma Amor
First Date is a tale of a first date gone horrifically wrong; its fast pace intensifying the usual uncompromising Amor experience.
https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/review-first-date-by-gemma-amor/
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In âThe Caretaker,â by Marcus Kliewer even the spaces between each word feel hostile. Out in April. Full review:
fanfiaddict.com/review-the-c...
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Review: The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: EXCITING OPPORTUNITY:Caretaker urgently needed. Three days of work. Competitive pay. Serious applicants ONLY. Macy Mullins canât say why the job p ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-the-caretaker-by-marcus-kliewer/
4 months ago
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đEleni Argyrò is Trying Her Bestâ˘ď¸
5 months ago
Sometimes you read a book for which writing a review after almost causes you an aneurysm.
@scribeofhades.bsky.social
's upcoming
#Daytide
is one such offender but man am I glad I had the chance to have an early look! What if Guillermo del Toro took on Punk Rock angels?
fanfiaddict.com/review-dayti...
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Review: Daytide by Chris Panatier | FanFiAddict
Daytide by Chris Panatier is a thought provoking, turpentine induced, rapture of a novel that carries you into a dark world filled with hope against all odd ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-daytide-by-chris-panatier-2/
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âWhether handling haunted pornography, simply admiring the lunar eclipse- the first in 50 years, topping the charts in Liverpool 1957, or knocking them back in a doctors office, I would follow
@natcassidy.bsky.social
anywhere. Not in a weird way.â
@shortwavebooks.bsky.social
MAY 5TH
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Review: I Know A Place: Rest Stop and Other Dark Detours by Nat Cassidy | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: There are locations in this world where the light doesnât seem to reach. Where, no matter how illuminated the place might be, shadows creep in too ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-i-know-a-place-rest-stop-and-other-dark-detours-by-nat-cassidy/
5 months ago
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âA real page-turner, âGreedy,â by
@callieuntitled.bsky.social
is exactly what I thought it would be. This is the sort of book you may try and pace yourself with, savour, but will end up demolishing standing at the kitchen counter.â FEB 3rd- Bantam FEB 5th- Century
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Review: Greedy by Callie Kazumi | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Ed is in trouble with the yakuza. He's gambled away all his money and his family is at risk.But just as heâs about to lose everything, he rec ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-greedy-by-callie-kazumi/
5 months ago
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I watched the video of todayâs ICE execution - a terrible idea, donât do it - and I find this level of state evil in America incomprehensible Iâm so sorry for my US friends who are seeing this happen to their county The American govt is a rogue terrorist faction; the world must sanction it.
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âIntensely uncanny, white-knuckle tense, wholly unnerving, Trad Wife by Sarah Langan was one that I basked in the unremitting, methodic, apron-clad dread of. Ballerina farm meets âA King in Yellow,â meets Shirley Jackson.â MAY 14TH-
@torbooksuk.bsky.social
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Review: Trad Wife by Sarah Langan | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Your favourite influencer is about to be exposed . . .Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the "trad wife" queen, on her idyllic 300-ac ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-trad-wife-by-sarah-langan/
5 months ago
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âTrad Wife,â by
@saratogaishere.bsky.social
is, beneath its sourdough crust and all that gingham, politically engaged, quite rightly enraged and genuinely highly entertaining and cathartic in its excess. FEB 10th-
@crookedlanebooks.bsky.social
FEB 19th-
@bantambooksuk.bsky.social
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Review: Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Every #tradwife needs a baby. Sheâll get one at any cost.When Camille Deming isnât cooking, cleaning, or homesteading in her picture-perfect count ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-trad-wife-by-saratoga-schaefer/
5 months ago
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If you liked those silly subgenres I made up, you can listen to my series wrap up below, or wherever else you get your podcasts.
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George and his niche possibly made up sub-genres
Podcast Episode ¡ The Terrorium ¡ 13/01/2026 ¡ 43m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-terrorium/id1826780455?i=1000745004411
5 months ago
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âA novel that cares not about being liked, but being felt, absorbed and endured, finished in a quiet state of ruin, âWretch,â by
@ericlarocca.bsky.social
succeeds in all that it sets out to do, and for the record, I happened to like it too.â
@titanbooks.bsky.social
@sagapressbooks.bsky.social
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Review: Wretch by Eric LaRocca | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-wretch-by-eric-larocca/
5 months ago
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Horrormance! I can see that. I guess SF Specmance or Scimantasy?
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A book that made my teeth itchy, my stomach turn, and my innards want to crawl out of my body, David Simmonsâ âFetty On The Switches,â is a damp, leaky, grubby, grimey and bizarre little number that I prodded, circled and then promptly fell headfirst into.
@clashbooks.bsky.social
JUNE â26
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Review: Fetty On The Switches by David Simmons | FanFiAddict
Synopsis: Hallucinatory and darkly comic love stories are set against the gritty backdrop of the city, where guns and drugs collide with tales of paranoia, ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/review-fetty-on-the-switches-by-david-simmons/
6 months ago
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6 months ago
George Dunn says you should read ACQUIRED TASTE. Read his Top Reads of 2025 over at FanFiAddict here:
bit.ly/3L5SOCX
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Massive thanks to the fantastic George Dunn, writing for FanFiAddict, for naming VEIL one of the Top Ten Books of the Year!
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George Dunn's Top Reads of 2025 | FanFiAddict
Agh, here we are again, hey? Itâs that time of year where I am allowed, without judgment (thems the rules) to self-indulgently tell you all about my year, a ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/george-dunns-top-reads-of-2025/
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George Dunn's Top Reads of 2025 | FanFiAddict
Agh, here we are again, hey? Itâs that time of year where I am allowed, without judgment (thems the rules) to self-indulgently tell you all about my year, a ...
https://fanfiaddict.com/george-dunns-top-reads-of-2025/
6 months ago
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