![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...
Solari, stuck between two crime lords she owes debts to, grafts giant moth wings to her back in an act of desperation to escape into one of the mutant enclaves. Once there, she finds an ally in Alcaeus, but the hope of finding her mother leads them back into...
Koré is a male courtesan in a world where men are lesser, but he plans to use his skills and connections to make sure his awful father doesn't get the position of leadership he wants. But when Koré is given dragon magic, starts falling for two people whose love he's not sure he's worthy of, fights against necromancy, and learns of various political secrets, things get even more...
Nick and his friends are attacked on the night of graduation from sorcery school, so they spend the next ten years trying to find and defeat the bad guy. Their professor, Byron, was made a vampire that night and has since been abandoned, told to keep watch in Austria. When Nick and friends stumble upon him, Nick and Byron are drawn to each other, and their connection might be what they both...
Tom is going to commit suicide one night, his depression and empath ability too much to deal with, but he's rescued by Theo, and there's an immediate spark between them. Unbeknownst to Tom, Theo is a selkie, and he's also currently in a (failing) relationship that he needs to end before being with someone else, which adds a bit of...
Nathan has always had the ability to hear and see things others didn't and to know things he couldn't know, and now his father has angrily sent him to live away from his family at their summer home. While there, Nathan befriends one of the servants and falls for the new groundskeeper, Peter, and with their support, he feels like his future might not be so hopeless after...
What if Romeo and Juliet did things a little differently and things didn't end up the way they did? With this book, you get to choose their actions for them and find out how things might've gone, with paths that vary from never meeting to becoming time traveling ghosts, and everything in...
![Book Review: Capt. Hook – The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J. V. Hart [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Capt.-Hook-The-Adventures-of-a-Notorious-Youth-by-J.-V.-Hart-255x255.jpg)
When James gets sent to Eton, he stands up to the bullies and quickly makes a name for himself, hated by some and admired by others. He befriends spiders to do his bidding, gets into a duel, falls for a young sultana, and eventually finds himself working on a ship with his best friend, hoping to one day find...
Zephyr has come to the human realm and temporarily traded in his dragon form in order to acquire a hoard, but he has no idea how to blend in. Mateo, having been in human form long enough to lose his magic, sees an opportunity to use Zephyr to get more money for himself. But the more time they spend together, genuine feeling grow between...
![Book Review: The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Sol-Majestic-by-Ferrett-Steinmetz-255x255.jpg)
A lonely, destitute teen enters a contest to win a free meal at a prestigious restaurant because he's hungry, but when the head chef speaks to him, he decides to plan an entire meal event around Kenna's religion. Kenna learns about cooking, makes friends, falls for a boy working in the kitchen, discovers hard truths about his parents, and has his life changed...
