Our reviews
32 fiction books we've reviewed, each with who it's for, who should skip it and every source we used.
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Leigh Bardugo
Best for: Teens and adults who want a morally gray, found-family heist fantasy — and especially listeners who enjoy ensemble audio, since the seven-narrator full-cast production matches the book's rotating viewpoints.
Elle Gray
Best for: Dedicated Blake Wilder series followers who have read through the preceding thirty-two entries and want to see FBI agent Blake Wilder's story through to its conclusion in the penultimate stretch of the thirty-five-book arc.
Willie Nelson
Best for: Longtime Willie Nelson fans and country music history enthusiasts seeking the most comprehensive, publisher-sanctioned account of Nelson's life — from his pre-fame Texas hustle through decades as an outlaw country icon.
Chris Colfer
Best for: Middle-grade readers aged 8–12 (and parents reading alongside them) who love classic fairy tales and want a fresh, scavenger-hunt-driven adventure that revisits beloved characters with warmth, humour, and genuine emotional stakes.
Stefano A Giovannoni
Best for: Teen readers aged 13–18 who want a mythology-dense supernatural mystery set in a richly imagined small-town world, and who have already read The Dark Secrets of Oliveto and want a satisfying conclusion to Nico and Sofia's story.
David R Anderson
Best for: Readers who grew up on classic D&D-lineage heroic fantasy — elves, quests, creature rosters, and campfire camaraderie — and who want a warmly traditional coming-of-age adventure with genuine emotional interiority at its centre.
Jonathan Thomason
Best for: Readers who want a quick, structured introduction to Ann Widdecombe's political career — particularly those approaching her legacy for the first time in the context of Brexit-era British politics or following her death in July 2026.
Dav Pilkey
Best for: Young readers aged 7–10, particularly reluctant or struggling readers already following the Dog Man series, who want humor-packed adventure with organic themes of self-belief, integrity, and perseverance.
Rick Riordan
Best for: Middle grade readers aged 9 and up — especially those who find school difficult or who have been diagnosed with dyslexia or ADHD — who want a fast-moving adventure that smuggles Greek mythology into a recognisably modern American landscape.
William C. Dietz
Best for: Readers completing the full four-book Mass Effect novel arc who want narrative closure and are less invested in strict canon fidelity than in action-oriented science fiction set against the franchise's universe.
Mick Foley
Best for: Dedicated WWE Attitude Era fans who have already read Have a Nice Day! and want Foley's candid, firsthand account of his championship peak, retirement, and the cultural controversies surrounding the WWF.
Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie
Best for: Readers of biographical historical fiction who want their founding-era narratives to grapple honestly with the period's moral contradictions — particularly those drawn to the overlooked women who shaped America's founding generation from behind the scenes.
Holly Black
Best for: Readers aged 15 and up who love YA fantasy driven by political intrigue, morally complex protagonists, and enemies-to-something tension set within a folklore-rooted faerie court.
Natalie D. Richards
Best for: Teen readers aged 14–18 who enjoy fast-moving, atmosphere-driven YA suspense built around a confined setting and a rotating cast of evenly suspicious characters.
Lisa Jewell
Best for: Readers who love domestic psychological thrillers built around family rupture and grief, and who enjoy structurally inventive narratives with shifting timelines and multiple narrators — particularly fans of Jewell's earlier work like I Found You or readers drawn to Gone Girl–adjacent suspense.
A.J. Rivers
Best for: Readers who enjoy character-driven PI thrillers built around a psychologically fragile protagonist — specifically those willing to invest in a long-running series where the hero's unreliable memory is the structural engine of every case, not just a backstory detail.
Lynn Painter
Best for: Romantic-comedy devotees — teens and adults alike — who want a high school romance that gleefully stacks every beloved trope (fake dating, enemies-to-lovers, the big misunderstanding) while also sneaking in a genuinely affecting grief subplot.
Jeff Kinney
Best for: Middle-grade readers in grades 3–7 who are already devoted fans of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and want a milestone-aware, multi-threaded Greg Heffley adventure that rewards their accumulated familiarity with the cast and formula.
Hom Chanthy
Best for: Families and educators already following Hom Chanthy's Beneath a Scarlet Sky series who want to continue a thematically consistent, morally serious short fiction journey with young readers aged roughly 8–14.
true george
Best for: Readers who enjoy quick, premise-driven horror and dark supernatural short fiction in the pulp anthology tradition, particularly those who read on Kindle and prefer variety over extended world-building.
Laura Dave
Best for: Thriller readers — particularly book-club participants and fans of character-driven domestic suspense — who want a fast, emotionally grounded read centred on a fractured stepmother-stepdaughter relationship rather than dense procedural complexity.
Gary Gerlacher
Best for: Readers of medically grounded crime fiction who want a series protagonist with genuine occupational credibility — an ER physician turned amateur investigator — and enjoy thriller narratives that balance dark criminal stakes with lighter, episodic workplace humour.
Gary Gerlacher
Best for: Readers who enjoy propulsive medical thrillers with procedural authenticity — especially fans of F1 racing, Las Vegas as a setting, or terrorism-based plots — and series followers who want to watch AJ Docker and Banshee grow across a maturing, darker-toned entry.
Elle Gray
Best for: Readers who enjoy fast-paced, character-anchored crime thrillers built around a recurring protagonist — particularly those who like binge-reading a complete series arc in one go and appreciate private-eye stories with a psychological, cat-and-mouse edge.
