Urban Fantasy

4 weeks ago | thefrumiousconsortium.net | Doreen Sheridan |Urban Fantasy

with delightful illustrations by Poly Bernatene. Bear with me while I tell you an anecdote here. I used to work in some decently nice restaurants, and at one of them had a manager of Mexican descent who loathed Cinco de Mayo. According to him, it’s a holiday made up by American beer companies that no one in Mexico actually celebrates. And don’t even get him started on the conflation with Mexican Independence, lol.

2 months ago | thefrumiousconsortium.net | Doreen Sheridan |Urban Fantasy

with Clayton Cowles and Rian Hughes on letters and design. Am I getting jaded? I love mythologies and the ways that comic books spin up brand new gods and pantheons and legends and dramas, but reading this book — that feels very much like a cross between Kieron Gillen’s prior The Wicked + The Divine (with Jamie McKelvie) and Warren Ellis & Bryan Hitch’s The Authority — I just felt tired. I love when amalgams create something new.

Jan 9, 2025 | thefrumiousconsortium.net | Doreen Sheridan |Urban Fantasy

I usually read a Bad Machinery book each Christmas, but I just couldn’t bring myself to do it this past year. Book 10 is the very last book of the series, and I was not in the correct frame of mind to face the end of the stories featuring my favorite teen mystery solvers, not until last night when I was too sick to go spend time with my Arsenal family anyway. Missing their camaraderie, I needed some wit and suspense and good cheer, and found it in spades in The Case Of The Severed Alliance.

Dec 6, 2024 | thefrumiousconsortium.net | Doreen Sheridan |Urban Fantasy

I missed the initial surge of excitement around Zoje Stage’s bestselling debut novel Baby Teeth, but was more than happy to take on the sequel, Dear Hanna, for the day job. In the latter novel, Hanna has grown up and gotten married to an older man with a teenage daughter. This pleases her: she doesn’t have any interest in having kids herself, so she’s glad to have found a mostly loving, supportive husband who’s on the same page as she is.

Nov 7, 2024 | thefrumiousconsortium.net | Doreen Sheridan |Urban Fantasy

with a host of incredibly talented guest artists!So I went into this book assuming it was a graphic novel, like the rest of the series. Readers, it is not! While it is 100% based on The Department Of Truth comic book series — and there are two issues from the main series at the very end of this volume — the bulk of this book is an illustrated primer to supernatural phenomena the world over. It does, however, mainly focus on America, as that’s where the series’ namesake department is located.