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 Blade Between by Sam J. Miller [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Blade-Between-by-Sam-J.-Miller-255x255.jpg)
Ronan, a gay photographer, returns to the hometown he hates only to realize he loves it too and wants to save it from gentrification. He teams up with the wife of his best friend, but his feelings for his best friend and the supernatural forces in the town complicate their...
I've reviewed the previous books in this series with mini reviews on the blog, so I wanted to at least do one of these quick review posts for the rest now that I've read them. Since they all have the same "Recommended For" and mostly the same tags, I'll just do those sections once at the end. This series sort of had its ups and downs, but overall, it had a wonderful romance/relationship/family...
![Book Review: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Spear-Cuts-Through-Water-by-Simon-Jimenez-255x255.jpg)
Told as a story within a story, Keema and Jun travel across their world with a dying goddess in order to end the rule of the Emperor and his three sons known as the Three Terrors. But the Terrors are looking for this goddess---their mother---and Jun's blood-soaked past and the people's hatred for him further complicates their...
Maud just wants to help her brother by completing the task he gave her, but then the woman she was sent to get in the US is killed on the ship ride back to England, and an important magical artifact stolen. With lives in danger, Maud finds allies on the ship to help, including the confident and beautiful magician...
Hayden and his father have been working on a formula to reverse death, but then Hayden finds his father murdered in his lab and the AI that records everything tampered with. The building goes into lockdown with the killer still inside, and Hayden, with the help of the AI, is determined to keep the formula out of their...
Xie and his friends want to fight for animals rights and environmental activism, but it's difficult when they're still in high school, and Xie is still on probation after getting caught freeing minks. And when Xie finds the skeleton of a saint, he finds it hard not to be distracted by the pull he feels to...
Callum's mother died years ago, and now he lives alone in their cabin in the woods. But one snowy day he rescues an injured sparrow, who turns into a winged man, and both find themselves falling for each...
![Book Review: Witch King by Martha Wells [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Witch-King-by-Martha-Wells-255x255.jpg)
When demon Kai and witch Zeide wake to find they were put into stasis in a trap, they set out, along with a kidnapped girl they rescue, to find answers about what happened, where their allies are, and what the state of the world is. Intermixed with that are flashbacks of Kai's past fighting for a better world with a visionary...
![Book Review: Never Never (Villains Book 9) by Serena Valentino [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Never-Never-Villains-Book-9-by-Serena-Valentino-255x255.jpg)
James went to Neverland as a kid but was brought back home, and ever since, all he's wanted is to go back. He joins Blackbeard's pirate crew, makes deals with magical beings, and sets out to make his wishes come...
