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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
A review is a new work. Certainly, it's often done for profit, admiration, or self-gratification. It can impact sales of the original, and can either explore the potential meanings and critique the original in detail, or just point to it and say "this is terrific" or "this is garbage."
What makes fiction an illegal literary style for doing those things?
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The fact that criticism and review are specific cases of "fair use". Writing a new story using someone else's characters is just plain and simple copyright infringement, unless you're doing it with the copyright holder's permission, or the characters are in the public domain.