![Book Review: The Infinite Noise (The Bright Sessions Book 1) by Lauren Shippen [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Infinite-Noise-The-Bright-Sessions-Book-1-by-Lauren-Shippen-255x255.jpg)
๐One of my faves!๐
Caleb has developed empath powers, making high school even harder, but he finds the emotions are easier to deal with around a boy named Adam. Adam, a loner dealing with depression and bullying, at first can't believe a hot football player wants to be his friend, but over time, the two grow closer and realize their feelings might even be...
In honor of spooky season, I decided to gather up some book covers with skeletons! If you regularly follow my blog, you may have seen a lot of these already, since I'm using a bunch of books I've read and a couple that I've used in other cover posts, like this Halloween Book Covers Tag, but there are a few new ones as well. There are lots of hand bones and skulls, but also a few full...
I try to group my quick review posts around a theme (or a series) as much as possible, so this time I’ve got four m/m fantasy romance books! One is historical fantasy set in our world, the rest are high fantasy set in made-up worlds. But all of these have a kind of similar vibe,...
![Book Review: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Book 1) by Tamsyn Muir [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Gideon-the-Ninth-The-Locked-Tomb-Book-1-by-Tamsyn-Muir-255x255.jpg)
When the Ninth House necromancer receives a summons to take part in trials to ascend and become immortal, Gideon agrees to pretend to be her cavalier in exchange for freedom from indentured servitude. But not long after all the house necromancers and cavaliers arrive, people start being murdered, and they realize they're all trapped and going to die unless they can figure out what's going...
So I've had an epiphany about vampires. I thought I'd discuss said epiphany here, though this is a more personal sort of post than what I normally do for discussions, drawing more on my own experiences and thoughts and feelings. We'll see how it goes! Maybe I'll try to do more deep dive kinda discussions in the...
Lately I've been trying to devote full review posts, which take more time and energy, to books I really like. So for this quick reviews post, I've got a bunch of books I did not like and rated lower than 3 stars. We can't like every book, right? For the most part, despite having quite a few issues with some of these, they're "not for me" books, not necessarily bad books. But one was quite...
Razzmatazz is a fairy godfather who's not too great at his job, so he finds a baby in the woods and decides he's going to raise her to make sure the fairy tale goes perfectly. But a beast also decides he wants the child, so they angrily agree to raise the child together, falling in love along the...
Daevabad, the hidden city of djinn, is in chaos after the events of the last book, but the djinn haven't given up yet against the new threat. Nahri and Ali try to make their way to safety and figure out how to save their city while Dara struggles to balance his loyalty to his Banu Nahida and his loyalty to the...
![Book Review: The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Darkness-Outside-Us-by-Eliot-Schrefer-255x255.jpg)
๐One of my faves!๐
Ambrose wakes from a coma on a space ship and knows his mission is to rescue his sister, but he remembers nothing about the launch, nor the info that there's another person on the ship. As time goes on and the two boys grow closer, they discover more and more strange clues that something is off about this...
![Book Review: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Summer-Sons-by-Lee-Mandelo-255x255.jpg)
๐One of my faves!๐
Andrew and Eddie grew up together, but then Eddie left to start his graduate program early, and now he's dead and haunting Andrew. When Andrew arrives in Nashville, he realizes there was a lot Eddie didn't tell him and sets out to solve the mystery of his friend's death while navigating grief, sexuality, a dangerous ghost, and Eddie's mysterious new...
