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: The Alpha Experiment (Mismatched Mates Book 3) by Eliot Grayson [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Alpha-Experiment-Mismatched-Mates-Book-3-by-Eliot-Grayson-255x255.jpg)
Newt, a professor and scientist, gets threatened into furthering his research on stimulating latent shifter genes quickly and so enlists his best friend, an alpha shifter, to help---by having sex. But as experiments progress, he starts to realize he may actually be enjoying...
Ragnar is a walrus shifter who lives alone in a lighthouse and secretly moonlights as the town's local legend, the Selkie King, and he's not happy when he has to host an art student for the summer. But as they're kind of stuck together, Ragnar starts warming up to Kel, and Kel realizes there's more to the lighthouse keeper than his gruff...
I needed a blog post, and Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, so I took inspiration from that. And I just love characters and relationships and quotes and wanted the excuse to talk about them! I didn't want to overwhelm everyone with too long of a blog post though. So here are five quotes from five (but definitely not all) of my favorite book couples being silly or swoony or ridiculous...
![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...
There are so many amazing-sounding queer sci-fi/fantasy books releasing this year! It was hard for me to choose just ten for this post, but making these kinds of blog posts is a lot of work, so I had to make a limit for my own sake. Sharing excitement is fun though! I decided to go with just books releasing in January through June for this post, with the hopes that I will do another one for...
