![Book Review: The Dragon Squisher (Nigel Chronicles Book 1) by Scott McCormick [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Dragon-Squisher-Nigel-Chronicles-Book-1-by-Scott-McCormick-255x255.jpg)
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...
I really meant to do some actual, thinky discussions this year, but I've been exhausted lately, and those kinds of discussions take a lot of energy. So you're getting more music match-ups! It's getting harder and harder to think of intros for these posts. How many times can I talk about how well books and songs go together?? I feel like I might've already reached that limit. So here, just have...
Sol is a trans vampire working as an archivist and living at his workplace to avoid the sun. When a donor shows up to drop off her dead wife's things, the two hit it off, and Sol's solitary, stagnant life starts...
Jaime has the ability to telepathically communicate with technology and is on the run from the government when he's taken in by a crew of smugglers and makes a deal with them. But he doesn't expect to fall for the recent crew addition and grumpy but sexy ex-military man,...
Owen has an opening in his chest, and inside it lives a talking bird named Gail. When he's 14, he's forced on the run, leaving behind his sheltered life away from people to live with his uncle and cousin in another state. He starts high school, explores his queerness, falls in love, and tries to find his place in the...
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...
