Review: Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

Fruit Fly by Josh Silver

Blurb from Goodreads:

Anyone can write a bestseller. Here’s how:

GO GAY

It’s been seven years since Mallory shot to fame as a literary sensation. But after years of struggling with writer’s block, she’s desperate to resurrect her career before it spirals into obscurity. She needs inspiration to strike – and fast.

GO SAD

Enter a young struggling addict sleeping under bridges and trading sex for survival. He’s vulnerable. He’s enigmatic. He’s exactly what Mallory has been looking for.

GO DARK

Mallory needs Leo if she wants another bestseller. Authenticity sells, and there’s nothing more authentic than real life. She’s the perfect person to tell Leo’s story. Gay, sad, dark – just what the world needs right now. But as secrets threaten to unravel more than just her career, Mallory must just how far will she go to pen the perfect story?

 This started off sooo good then got a bit off course.  Still, I enjoyed most of it except for the shoddy ending.  It had such promise but should have ended without the additional, too long chapters set 13 months after the incidents in the book.  I think they could have just done one more moody chapter to wrap it up but I digress -- very well written and I didn't know where it was going.  Give htis a try!

Fruit Fly comes out next week on August 4, 2026 and you can purchase HERE.  

AS I START UP my sixth game of Candy Crush while sat on the closed toilet seat, I have a very clear and rational realisation.

I, too, am a piece of exploding computerised fruit.

That is the extent of me. Here one moment, only to be pulverised into a spray of sweet nothing the very next. Obliterated. Forgotten.