The Forgotten Fiction Book Reviews
The Forgotten Fiction book reviews magazine features quality written works of fiction, preview reviews of upcoming unreleased titles & author / artist interviews.
We have want to spread the power of fiction to change the world for the better! Another special focus of TFF’s are detailed reviews of Small Press and Fine Press Limited Editions that feel heavy in the hand, though we review works from any publisher.
Each book review has one rule: we feature The Forgotten Fiction Grade, Yea or Nay, as a recommendation to pick up the book…or let it be forgot.
The Forgotten Fiction Book Reviews
The Forgotten Fiction book reviews magazine features quality written works of fiction, preview reviews of upcoming unreleased titles & author / artist interviews.
We have want to spread the power of fiction to change the world for the better! Another special focus of TFF’s are detailed reviews of Small Press and Fine Press Limited Editions that feel heavy in the hand, though we review works from any publisher.
Each book review has one rule: we feature The Forgotten Fiction Grade, Yea or Nay, as a recommendation to pick up the book…or let it be forgot.
“The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written.
“All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.”
― V for Vendetta, By
Upgrade By Blake Crouch: A Thrilling Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Upgrade by Blake Crouch: a thrilling sci-fi masterpiece details a near future where examining what it is to be human is vital for survival. In Upgrade, the writing flows smoothly and efficiently as the story hits the reader impactfully. The world building, character creation, and science are all too real. The pace is tremendous - Upgrade does not let up! And the ending...
The Chain by Adrian McKinty is Electrifying!
The Chain by Adrian McKinty is Electrifying! When I stumbled upon Adrian McKinty’s The Chain in the bookstore, I picked it up with mild interest. When I read the engrossing blurb from Stephen King on the cover, mild interest blossomed into moderate intrigue. I had never heard of the author but supporting King’s glowing endorsement of The Chain was a Best Novel of the...
Nat Cassidy’s Mary: An Awakening of Terror
Nat Cassidy's Mary: An Awakening of Terror - After losing her job in New York, a chance call brings Mary back to her hometown to take care of her sick aunt Nadine. However, this is not a welcome change of pace as Mary has been suffering in silence from ghastly visions of her own body decaying and the town brings up painful memories from the past. It does not help that...
The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman A+ Areté Editions
The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman A+ Areté Editions deliver the seminal follow-up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes tale, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” and both the Neil Gaiman novella and the letterpress treatment of the stories by Areté are pure gold! The Case of Death and Honey: The Numbered Edition by Areté may be the finest, most...
Dissonant Harmonies Book Review
Dissonant Harmonies Book Review: For Dissonant Harmonies, Bev Vincent and Brian Keene come together for a unique concept on their novella published by Cemetery Dance. It is, in fact, two novellas – one written by each author to a playlist selected by the other. Both authors having discovered that they enjoy writing to music, the idea was born that they would choose a...
Barbara Comyns’ Who has Changed and Who has Died (1954)
Barbara Comyns' Who has Changed and Who has Died (1954) - Misery and Malice in a Small Village - The Willoweed family life is defined by misery made worse under the scrupulous eye of an embittered matriarch, Grandma Willoweed. The cranky and controlling woman holds power over the family through an inheritance that they are dependent upon. Her son, Ebin, takes her abuse...
Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering
Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering; told through an experimental narrative, a young mother on the verge of death is visited by the voice of a young boy asking to scan her memories, to find when the 'worms' first appeared. Spoiler Warning* For The Fever Dream Book Review This leads the woman, Amanda, to recount the last few days at a...
Q2 Announcement Schedule + Interviews & Resources
Q2 Announcement Schedule + Interviews & Resources are all fun things coming to fruition, as is a new drive for 1000 followers on Facebook and Twitter: Facebook.com/theforgottenfiction/, Twitter.com/ForgottenFicti2. So we are here in the second quarter of 2022 and three interviews kicked off the year! I am happy to say they are now on YouTube and their own page on...
Dancing with the Tombstones is a delicious anthology of short stories
Dancing with the Tombstones is a delicious anthology of short stories, and I had the opportunity to review the latest book written by Mark Aronovitz and published by Cemetery Dance compiled during the COVID-19 lockdown of short stories that could be easily described as the adult equivalent of Scary Stories to tell in the Dark. The following book review of Dancing with...
361 By Donald E. Westlake: Unique, Hard-Hitting Brilliance
361 By Donald E. Westlake: unique, hard-hitting brilliance brings hard-boiled gritty noir down an alley that you cannot leave until the book is done. Hard Case Crime thankfully brings many treasures like 361 back to the forefront of fiction on today’s market. Personally, despite loving crime, mystery, and hard-boiled fiction, I had yet to read a novel of Donald...
Hye-Young Pyun’s The Hole (2017) – Trapped in Ones Mind
After a car crash, Ogi awakens to find himself barely alive, caught in a vegetative state unable to communicate or move. After learning from the doctors that his wife did not survive the crash his sole surviving family member, his mother-in-law, begins to take care of his every need. However, when she discovers her daughter's notes that point to past transgressions of...
Dune & Frank Herbert Immortalized By Centipede Press
Dune & Frank Herbert immortalized by Centipede Press in a limited edition that creates a uniquely bold, intricate, imaginative, and sharp book, a true work of art – illustrated by Mark Molnar – befitting a masterpiece that is one of the greatest science-fiction novels of all time. There are few works as grandiose, moving, tragic and exhilarating as Frank Herbert’s...
Upgrade By Blake Crouch: A Thrilling Sci-Fi Masterpiece
Upgrade by Blake Crouch: a thrilling sci-fi masterpiece details a near future where examining what it is to be human is vital for survival. In Upgrade, the writing flows smoothly and efficiently as the story hits the reader impactfully. The world building, character creation, and science are all too real. The pace is tremendous - Upgrade does not let up! And the ending...
The Chain by Adrian McKinty is Electrifying!
The Chain by Adrian McKinty is Electrifying! When I stumbled upon Adrian McKinty’s The Chain in the bookstore, I picked it up with mild interest. When I read the engrossing blurb from Stephen King on the cover, mild interest blossomed into moderate intrigue. I had never heard of the author but supporting King’s glowing endorsement of The Chain was a Best Novel of the...
Nat Cassidy’s Mary: An Awakening of Terror
Nat Cassidy's Mary: An Awakening of Terror - After losing her job in New York, a chance call brings Mary back to her hometown to take care of her sick aunt Nadine. However, this is not a welcome change of pace as Mary has been suffering in silence from ghastly visions of her own body decaying and the town brings up painful memories from the past. It does not help that...
The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman A+ Areté Editions
The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman A+ Areté Editions deliver the seminal follow-up to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s last Sherlock Holmes tale, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man,” and both the Neil Gaiman novella and the letterpress treatment of the stories by Areté are pure gold! The Case of Death and Honey: The Numbered Edition by Areté may be the finest, most...
Dissonant Harmonies Book Review
Dissonant Harmonies Book Review: For Dissonant Harmonies, Bev Vincent and Brian Keene come together for a unique concept on their novella published by Cemetery Dance. It is, in fact, two novellas – one written by each author to a playlist selected by the other. Both authors having discovered that they enjoy writing to music, the idea was born that they would choose a...
Barbara Comyns’ Who has Changed and Who has Died (1954)
Barbara Comyns' Who has Changed and Who has Died (1954) - Misery and Malice in a Small Village - The Willoweed family life is defined by misery made worse under the scrupulous eye of an embittered matriarch, Grandma Willoweed. The cranky and controlling woman holds power over the family through an inheritance that they are dependent upon. Her son, Ebin, takes her abuse...
Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering
Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream (2014) Floating In and Out of Suffering; told through an experimental narrative, a young mother on the verge of death is visited by the voice of a young boy asking to scan her memories, to find when the 'worms' first appeared. Spoiler Warning* For The Fever Dream Book Review This leads the woman, Amanda, to recount the last few days at a...
Q2 Announcement Schedule + Interviews & Resources
Q2 Announcement Schedule + Interviews & Resources are all fun things coming to fruition, as is a new drive for 1000 followers on Facebook and Twitter: Facebook.com/theforgottenfiction/, Twitter.com/ForgottenFicti2. So we are here in the second quarter of 2022 and three interviews kicked off the year! I am happy to say they are now on YouTube and their own page on...
Dancing with the Tombstones is a delicious anthology of short stories
Dancing with the Tombstones is a delicious anthology of short stories, and I had the opportunity to review the latest book written by Mark Aronovitz and published by Cemetery Dance compiled during the COVID-19 lockdown of short stories that could be easily described as the adult equivalent of Scary Stories to tell in the Dark. The following book review of Dancing with...
361 By Donald E. Westlake: Unique, Hard-Hitting Brilliance
361 By Donald E. Westlake: unique, hard-hitting brilliance brings hard-boiled gritty noir down an alley that you cannot leave until the book is done. Hard Case Crime thankfully brings many treasures like 361 back to the forefront of fiction on today’s market. Personally, despite loving crime, mystery, and hard-boiled fiction, I had yet to read a novel of Donald...
Hye-Young Pyun’s The Hole (2017) – Trapped in Ones Mind
After a car crash, Ogi awakens to find himself barely alive, caught in a vegetative state unable to communicate or move. After learning from the doctors that his wife did not survive the crash his sole surviving family member, his mother-in-law, begins to take care of his every need. However, when she discovers her daughter's notes that point to past transgressions of...
Dune & Frank Herbert Immortalized By Centipede Press
Dune & Frank Herbert immortalized by Centipede Press in a limited edition that creates a uniquely bold, intricate, imaginative, and sharp book, a true work of art – illustrated by Mark Molnar – befitting a masterpiece that is one of the greatest science-fiction novels of all time. There are few works as grandiose, moving, tragic and exhilarating as Frank Herbert’s...
What Is The Forgotten Fiction All About?
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If You Want To Know A Little More About How The Forgotten Fiction Book Reviews Magazine Is Different & Our Mission . . .
We are really trying to achieve two main goals here at The Forgotten Fiction Book Reviews:
- To bolster every author who puts out a work of fiction long after the initial buzz that accompanied its release and to bolster publishers, especially small press and fine press, that make works of art out of the books we love. For newer books, we either offer up preview reviews before the book comes out, sometimes followed by more elaborate reviews after release day, or we post a review after the release date so that long after the initial 60+ day marketing push for the book is over our review lasts and continues to be plugged into the online book-verse, something that is usually left to a public relations manager or company and even with all of their powers of marketing / PR are limited in where they can place the book months after its launch. We also focus on limited edition and small press publications, like Hard Case Crime and Suntup Editions, that are also reviewed for their physical beauty, as well as the work’s literary art and often illustrations.
- We love books of fiction and as readers we have too little time to read ALL of the books that fall onto our tentative To-Read List. The Forgotten Fiction hopes that with our Yea or Nay stamp, we can definitively give our unbiased opinion to you as a recommendation to aid your decision to move a book from The Stack and onto, or off of, your Must-Read List. Goodreads is fantastic, we practically live in it, but at TFF we feel that we supplement Goodreads in three vital areas. We have professional writers giving an in-depth review of each work of fiction, and the reviewers at TFF work hard to earn your trust; we also do not bother with ratings, because we give you a clear answer as to whether we think you should read the book or not; and for our small press book reviews, we review the myriad physical aspects that make up the finer editions of the written works.
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