![Book Review: A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-A-Market-of-Dreams-and-Destiny-by-Trip-Galey-255x255.jpg)
Deri is indentured to a merchant at the goblin market and desperately wants out of his contract, and he just might have it when he makes the deal of a lifetime. But using his prize will be more complicated than he realizes, especially when he falls for a human boy indentured to a workhouse who also needs out of his...
Anthologies! Sometimes I like to start my posts by just shouting the thing they're about. Easier than thinking of good intros. So anyway, I have a bunch of anthologies (and one collection) I reviewed elsewhere years ago but never posted here. Both normal and graphic novels. To be honest, most of these were not really for me. I've tried to get into anthologies. They always sound so fun....
![Book Review: The Mars House by Natasha Pulley [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Mars-House-by-Natasha-Pulley-255x255.jpg)
January is an Earth refugee on Mars, where Senator Gale is pushing to make Earthstrongers undergo a process that will acclimate them to Mars gravity but harm their bodies. When January ends up in a bad spot, he agrees to a marriage with Gale that will benefit them both. But there are mysteries surrounding Gale, and the senator is not at all what January...
Seventeen-year-old Peregrine lives on a planet surrounded by a barrier that keeps out star dragons, but he's been having strange dreams and a pull to the sky that he needs to understand, further fueled by his harm OCD and belief that his family would be safer with him not around. When a dragon breaks through the barrier, Per gets on a submarine headed for the breach to try and learn...
![Book Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence Book 1) by Emma Mieko Candon [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Archive-Undying-The-Downworld-Sequence-Book-1-by-Emma-Mieko-Candon-255x255.jpg)
When his AI god corrupted and died while Sunai was interfacing with them, it changed him, making him immortal and putting a target on his back. So far, he's escaped the notice of the governing body that forces people like him into AI mech bodies to use them for violence. But then he gets entangled with a man who could very well figure out and turn him in for his secret, and his life only gets...
![Book Review: Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Space-Opera-by-Catherynne-M.-Valente-255x255.jpg)
🌟One of my faves!🌟
After an intergalactic war, the various sentient species in the galaxy decided to host a singing contest once every cycle in order to determine which species will be eliminated. When humans are forced to join, it's "electro-funk glamgrind" rockstar Decibel Jones who's chosen to perform and whisked away, along with bandmate Oort St. Ultraviolet, to meet aliens, avoid assassination attempts, and...
![Book Review: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Time-Travelers-Wife-by-Audrey-Niffenegger-255x255.jpg)
Henry has a genetic condition that causes him to time travel against his will. It's not an easy life, but then he meets Clare, who already knows him from the many times his older self visited her in the past as she was growing up. This is their love...
In Black Bird of the Gallows, a girl meets a harbinger of death and the two of them end up in the middle of another supernatural's plot while the threat of disaster looms. In Keeper of the Bees, a girl with hallucinations falls for a supernatural being called a beekeeper, and it changes both their lives. Harbingers of death, creatures with bees in their chest---this series sounded way too unique...
Life in the Realm has continued on as mostly normal for Vaun, even though he no longer lives in the drug-induced ignorance he once did. But now rebellion is brewing, and Vaun fears for the safety of the rebellion leader, his defiant sister, and all the subjects in the Realm. When the Queen makes a demand of him, he'll have to decide how much is worth sacrificing for the right...
R is a zombie, living in an airport in the post-apocalyptic world with a whole bunch of other zombies, spending his days groaning and hunting and attempting to hold onto what little humanity he still can. But when he eats the brain of teenage boy Perry during a hunt and experiences some of Perry's memories, it drives him to save Julie, Perry's girlfriend, and bring her back to the airport with...
