![Book Review: The Dragon Squisher (Nigel Chronicles Book 1) by Scott McCormick [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Dragon-Squisher-Nigel-Chronicles-Book-1-by-Scott-McCormick-255x255.jpg)
Nigel, a trouble-making 14-year-old, gets sent off to military school, along with his kinda rival Lance, and ultimately sent on a quest to retrieve a magical relic. Along the way, they cement their friendship, befriend a supposed enemy gork, learn some hard realities about their side of the war, adopt a useless messenger bird, and try to save the...
Joe and his friend Jerry find a merman washed up on the beach, but he turns out to be very much alive and interested in Joe, though not so fond of Jerry, judging from the way he tries to kill him. After a seduction involving lots of frustration and dead sea creatures, Joe finds himself falling for the man, but their communication barrier and differing survival needs complicate...
![Book Review: Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Book 2) by Tamsyn Muir [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Harrow-the-Ninth-The-Locked-Tomb-Book-2-by-Tamsyn-Muir-255x255.jpg)
Harrow, brilliant necromancer and bone mage, has agreed to help the Emperor and is now living on his space station along with him and four others. But something has gone wrong, she's being guided by letters she wrote to herself but doesn't remember writing, one of her teachers wants to kill her, and none of it will even matter if the revenant of a dead planet kills...
![Book Review: Three Left Turns to Nowhere by Jeffrey Ricker, J. Marshall Freeman, & ‘Nathan Burgoine [Anthology]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Three-Left-Turns-to-Nowhere-by-Various-Authors-255x255.jpg)
In this anthology, three teens on their way to a convention all end up temporarily stuck in a small town with a bit of magic. Ed chases after a ghost with a cute boy, Rome goes on a mysterious scavenger hunt, and Fielding uses his ability to see echoes of the past to do something good with the help of two new...
![Book Review: The Temperature of Me and You by Brian Zepka [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Temperature-of-Me-and-You-by-Brian-Zepka-1-255x255.jpg)
Dylan is living a normal teen life until a cute boy shows up at his job and explodes a cup of ice cream. Intrigued, Dylan wants to get to know him, but when he develops the same heat and fire powers as Jordan, they might both be in...
When Shrike, a fae, is crowned Oak King, he seeks out someone who can help him defeat the current Holly King he will have to fight, and the magic leads him to Wren, a human. As the two men spend time together, they grow closer, tackle problems that come their way together, and try to figure out how to save Shrike's life from future Holly...
![Book Review: Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Yesterday-is-History-by-Kosoko-Jackson-255x255.jpg)
Andre receives a liver transplant only to discover the boy he received it from could time travel, and now he can too. He finds himself repeatedly returning to an intriguing young man in 1969, but as he spends time with his donor's brother in the present, his feelings become torn between the two...
Eugene is a spoiled prince in a high fantasy kingdom, but one day he finds a flyer and decides to join an adventuring party. They reluctantly allow him to join because they're desperate, and frustration (for the characters) and hilarity (for the readers) ensues as they set off to investigate disappearances in a nearby...
![Book Review: Restore Me (Shatter Me Book 4) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Restore-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-4-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
Juliette has achieved her goal, but her new position of power might be more than she bargained for, and she is woefully unprepared for it. When she starts learning truths about her past, it only makes things even harder, and she doesn't know who to trust...
A war is coming, so Julien, Noah, Trent, and Ciaran have decided to work with Julien's family, and having magical beings and hunters under the same roof is going about as well as expected. Noah and Julien work to stop demon possessions and portal openings while Trent and Ciaran go to help the fae fight the Alfar, and if they don't all succeed, they may not get their happily ever...
