October | 2019 | Metaphors and Moonlight

Book Review: Evolved by N.R. Walker [Audiobook]

Lloyd, a 41-year-old professor, has struggled to maintain a relationship---because of his OCD and misophonia, he can't deal with the messiness and noisiness of other people---so he decides to try getting an android companion named Shaun. But Shaun starts to develop an unusual amount of sentience and emotion, and unless they can keep it hidden from the company who made him, Shaun, and their...

Poetry: Supernatural Creature Poems

I came up with this idea for some short supernatural creature poems some time ago, and I thought October would be the perfect time to finally write and share them! Not that I need it to be October to talk about supernatural creatures, but still :-P It should be pretty obvious which supernatural each poem is about, but I'll put the answers at the end in case you all want to have some fun...

Book Review: Three Days Till Dawn (Antiquity’s Gate Book 1) by R.F. Hurteau

Long after an apocalyptic event, the last remaining humans on Earth are living in a domed society in Antarctica with the elves who stayed behind to help them. When best friends Felix and Ripley learn that Felix's wife is having twins but will have to have one removed because of the one child policy, they have to find a way out or a place to hide before that...

Book Review: Salt Magic, Skin Magic by Lee Welch [Audiobook]

Thornby has been trapped on his father's estate for over a year with some sort of magic, so when magician John Blake shows up, Thornby reaches out to him for help. John is stumped by the strange magic but is determined to free Thornby, and things get even more complicated as the men start to fall for each...

Game Review: Oxenfree by Night School Studio

Oxenfree is a creepy, unique supernatural thriller game about the changing relationships among a group of teenage characters as they spend the night trapped on an island trying to defeat the ghosts that are keeping them there and messing with...

Book Review: Caged (Baal’s Heart Book 1) by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]

With no friends and only his unloving step-father as family, Jon's life is boring and miserable, so when he gets kidnapped and offered a job aboard Baltsaro's pirate ship, he accepts. But when he unexpectedly develops feelings for the cruel captain, and the captain takes a liking to him in return, it creates a riff between captain and first mate, and all three of them will have to sort out...

Update: Life and Books (Sep 2019)

I'll start this post by getting the bad news out of the way. My face muscle/headache problem is still not better. I'm still waiting for a neurology appointment, but they're probably not going to find anything. So I don't know what's going to happen with my problem, and I don't know what's going to happen with my...

Book Review: Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King Book 1) by Tricia Levenseller [Audiobook]

Alosa purposely gets herself kidnapped by another ship on a mission for her father in order to find a piece of map she knows they must have, but, although she can escape any time she wants, finding the map proves harder than she thought. She also wasn't expecting to develop feelings for the first mate, but the more time she spends around him, the more she's drawn to...