![Book Review: The Fake Divination Offense (Magic and Romance Book 2) by Sara Raasch [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Fake-Divination-Offense-Magic-and-Romance-Book-2-by-Sara-Raasch-255x255.jpg)
When rawball player Orok stands up for a stranger in distress at a bar, it becomes social media news, and the team's publicist offers them a deal in exchange for keeping up a fake relationship. Orok agrees because Alexo seems to really want the deal, but he doesn't want it to be fake, and they'll have some inner struggles and outside dangers to overcome before that can...
![Book Review: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards (Magic and Romance Book 1) by Sara Raasch [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Entanglement-of-Rival-Wizards-Magic-and-Romance-Book-1-by-Sara-Raasch-255x255.jpg)
Grad student Sebastian needs a grant in order to continue his research to use magic to help people, but he gets stuck sharing it with Elethior, his rival whose family uses magic for harm. But the more time they spend together, the more Sebastian realizes Elethior may not be like his family, and feelings may be...
Ellinore, famous quester, has been lying about how she completed all her quests and is ready to retire now she has enough money for her family. But when her brother's life is at stake, she'll have to keep up the ruse and go on one last quest with a team she didn't ask for, including the princet she's been competing with and crushing...
I am aware that it's mid March and like half of these books are out already. And to that I say... Who cares? I haven't read them yet, so I'm still excited for them! Really I'm doing you a favor, because this just means you don't have to wait to read some of these. You're welcome. 😊 As always, I'm focusing on books for the first half of the year and books that are either standalones or the...
Max and Jasper are finally together, but Max is still struggling with what happened in the last book, so they go away for a vacation. But their vacation takes an interesting turn, and the boys learn more about themselves, their pack, and...
![Book Review: Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Of-Monsters-and-Mainframes-by-Barbara-Truelove-255x255.jpg)
Demeter is the navigational AI on a large passenger ship, and her downfall starts when Dracula kills all her passengers on one of her voyages. After that, incidents keep happening, Demeter and her medbay AI will have to learn to cooperate if they want to avoid the scrapyard, and eventually a motley crew of monsters joins them to help kill...
When the Elite pack is invited to send a few members to attend the Blood Moon with another pack in the mountains, Max jumps at the chance to spend more time with Jasper, even though Jasper is still pushing him away. The trip makes Max realize he's not as alone as he thought, but things go awry when the Blood Moon legends turn out to be not entirely made...
Jasper is back, but almost as soon as he and Crimson reunite, Crimson gets stuck in spider form, and it's going to become permanent in a few days. They and their friends will have to work together and risk their lives to get what they need and undo the curse in...
I read fewer books this year than I have probably since I started blogging ten years ago, so there's actually not ten books here. That felt like too many, and there were only six books that I rated 4.5 or 5 stars. Two of which are a duology and three of which were rereads (though I do still count rereads because if a book was that great more than once, it deserves recognition more than once). I...
Next up on my end of the year lists: characters from the books I've read and games I've played! I also sneaked one podcast in here, but the title stays because it's not worth the work of changing the graphic. I also sneaked more than ten characters in here, technically, but that's ok. And I may have talked too much about some of them when these are supposed to be quick descriptions, but I...
