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I tend to read a lot more female authors than male, which apparently puts me in the minority of readers worldwide. It’s especially unusual for me to read “serious” fiction by men, and while there’s a touch of the supernatural in each story collected here, this is still very much the kind of literary writing …
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w an art assist by Ruka Bravo. This was my first 5-star read of books published in 2026, and you’d best believe that I didn’t think it would be when I first went into it. Abbey Luck has done something exceptional here, writing of horrors both everyday and extraordinary with humor and hope, and without …
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Hello, dear readers! This week, we have three books to look forward to and three other books I want to make sure you didn’t miss out on from the Big 25 (that’s 2025 for this of you still not up to date with the lingo.) Publishing this Tuesday is the latest from Ashley Elston, whose …
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This is a positive review, I promise, I just need to get something (not necessarily negative) about the publishing industry off my chest first. The titling of kids’ series books, and especially kids’ graphic novels, continues to confuse me. Should we call it first by the series’ name and number as we do with most …
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translated from the original German by Imogen Taylor. Iris runs the only hotel left open in Bad Heim, a once-thriving (and fictional) spa town that now lives under constant threat of the forest fires that burn just beyond the river. Every summer seems to stretch for longer and longer, as the heat waves allow the …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/01/14/eternal-summer-by-franziska-gansler/
Hello, readers! Today we have a charming excerpt for you from a historical novel. While James R Gregory’s Ghost Town is billed as a psychological thriller, at its heart, it’s a story about leadership, love and connection, as ambition clashes with isolation to potentially devastating result. In the late 1800s, the small town of Sulphur …
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subtitled From Ancient Times To The Present Day. Because no, being trans is not a new thing, and it’s important that we not pretend that it is. Y’all, I’m tired. Twelve days into the new year and I’m at the point where I can never know what new horrors to expect from this administration and …
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Hello, dear reader! This week, we’re featuring one upcoming book and five backlist titles, beginning with a collaboration involving one of my favorite authors of contemporary speculative fiction. Rob Hart teams up with Jeff Rake for Detour, a high stakes sci-fi thriller with a Planet Of The Apes-like twist. It’s all in a day’s work …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.thefrumiousconsortium.net/2026/01/09/tantalizing-tales-january-2026-part-two/
Jamie lives in a city of perpetual winter. Snow and ice blanket the island of Fairharbour, where he survives by scavenging for materials that he can use to make pretty trinkets he can subsequently trade for food and fuel. But when he puts together a kaleidoscope and tests it out, he catches an impossible glimpse …
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For quite a long time there, I’d treat myself every Christmas by reading a new volume of John Allison’s Bad Machinery while the kids played with their new toys. I eventually ran out of volumes (there are only ten, after all) so decided to go ahead and read all three books of the Steeple series …
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