📖BOOK: The Found Object Society by Michelle Maryk
📱FORMAT: Kindle (ARC) courtesy of NetGalley, Michelle Maryk, and Hyperion Avenue
📚GENRE: Speculative Fiction
📅RELEASE DATE: February 10, 2026
🏢PUBLISHER: Hyperion Avenue
📄PAGES: 448
⭐RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 out of 5 stars)
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🧳SYNOPSIS:
”For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world. Pick an object and go on a voyage to relive the final moments of the person who died holding it, along with an unparalleled, irreplicable high. Greta’s hooked, but she can't quiet her questions about the society and its enigmatic creators, the answers to which have implications far beyond her growing dependence on the voyages. Death is addictive, and what she uncovers will put her entire life into question.”
💬THE VIBE:
Dark, hypnotic, and cinematic. It felt like slipping into a fever dream you don’t want to wake from. I could NOT put this book down.
💡STANDOUT ELEMENTS:
A high-concept premise that feels both daring and inevitable
Sharp, elegant writing with speculative edge
A world that’s at once opulent and sinister
A fearless exploration of grief, power, and obsession
🧠WHAT STUCK:
The idea that death itself could become addictive and the unsettling truth of how far people (with money) will go for meaning, escape, and/or a taste of control.
👎WHAT DIDN’T WORK FOR ME:
Nothing. This book was an absolute chef’s kiss. I am grateful for novels that stretch the possibility of what is possible and suck you in and you’re not mad about it. I knew almost instantaneously that this book was going to be epic.
🤔IF YOU LIKE:
Speculative fiction with spectacular world building
Literary thrillers that probe grief and morality
Books that balance atmosphere, concept, and emotional weight
🙅♀️IF YOU DON’T LIKE:
Dark, unsettling explorations of trauma and mortality
Multiple POVs and time-shifting narratives. Trust me, I’m not always into this but it 100% works here
📝FINAL VERDICT:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5 out of 5 stars)
My favorite book of the year and it hasn’t even been released yet.
A daring, original debut that I fully expect to become one of the most talked-about books of 2026, if not the book of the year.
Pre-order it, request it at your library, and get ready to be swept into something extraordinary. Friends…prepare for me to not shut up about this book until you’ve read it…then we can talk about it together.
Also, can we talk about the cover? STUNNING! I’m a self-admitted book cover snob.
