Young Adult | Genre | Metaphors and Moonlight

Book Review: All That’s Left in the World by Erik J. Brown [Audiobook]

When Andrew injures his leg in a bear trap post-apocalypse, he limps into a cabin he finds only to realize it's not empty, but luckily Jamie decides to help. When Andrew is healed, the two boys end up trekking across the country, running into various dangers, but growing closer along the...

Book Review: Imagine Me (Shatter Me Book 6) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

The situation with the Re-establishment and Emmaline is growing more turbulent, and it's not long before they figure out where Ella is. The need for another rescue mission arises, and it might also be their chance to take down the Re-establishment once and for...

Book Review: The Witch King (The Witch King Book 1) by H.E. Edgmon [Audiobook]

Wyatt, a trans witch, is finally living a nice life with a family who took him in after he escaped fae society years ago. But then his betrothed, the prince, shows up and brings him back under threat of the blood contact that binds them, and Wyatt will have to decide how far he's really willing to go to get back to the human...

Book Review: Defy Me (Shatter Me Book 5) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

Juliette wakes in a familiar yet unfamiliar place with strange memories and comes to realize there's even more to her past, her present, and her powers than what she found out in the previous book. Meanwhile, her friends, no longer safe at the compound, have to figure out what to do next, but an unexpected visitor throws them for a...

Book Review: The Dragon Squisher (Nigel Chronicles Book 1) by Scott McCormick [Audiobook]

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...

Book Review: Three Left Turns to Nowhere by Jeffrey Ricker, J. Marshall Freeman, & ‘Nathan Burgoine [Anthology]

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]

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...

Book Review: Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson [Audiobook]

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...

Book Review: The Disasters by M. K. England [Audiobook]

A group of teens kicked out of the space academy end up together on a ship when the station they were about to leave is attacked. They flee to a nearby colony and have to work together to try and save the colonies when they uncover a terrorist...

Book Review: Restore Me (Shatter Me Book 4) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]

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...