Look at me, doing a real discussion post! But this is one of those things I was just driven to talk about. Instead of, "I need a discussion post topic, let me think of something," it was, "These thoughts have bouncing around in my head, I should share them." Anyway, this might be a bit ranty, mostly about queer and disabled exclusion as it pertains to paranormal/fantasy/magic-related sex....
Ethan is a healer in a future where his and other abilities are well-known. One night, Ethan saves the heir to a big pharma/water company, and her brother starts trying to woo him. The two men start falling for each other, but Ethan also finds himself in the middle of secrets, politics, crime, and Javier's messed up...
Seventeen-year-old Peregrine lives on a planet surrounded by a barrier that keeps out star dragons, but he's been having strange dreams and a pull to the sky that he needs to understand, further fueled by his harm OCD and belief that his family would be safer with him not around. When a dragon breaks through the barrier, Per gets on a submarine headed for the breach to try and learn...
Ezra is an exorcist for the Church of Providence, wielding magical weapons from angels' blessings inked into his skin. But demon activity has been ramping up, and then Ezra is tasked by Gabriel with protecting the cute new boy in his class who might be linked to it all...
![Book Review: Cascade Failure (Ambit’s Run Book 1) by L.M. Sagas [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Cascade-Failure-Ambits-Run-Book-1-by-L.M.-Sagas-255x255.jpg)
Labeled a deserter years ago, Jal is on a space station hoping to join a crew for a ride home, but he ends up on the ship of the man who used to be his closest friend. Things are tense between them, but the crew has bigger problems when they answer a distress call and learn about something that will cause mass death if they don't stop...
Parker and Adam have a good post-apoc life with a community on an island away from the zombies. When new werewolves show up, the two men end up in a dangerous situation, but they're willing to fight for each other and the new found family they...
I like doing these opening lines posts. I never remember what the opening lines of books are, so it's always interesting to go back and see them. Also interesting to see the variety they have. I tend to choose books pretty randomly and just see what I get, so these aren't the ones I think are good or bad or anything, they just are. (Though I do like to choose a favorite, because why not?) As I...
![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...
Knox is a familiar, a liminal being sent to help when deals are made, but when his latest contract ends, he's not ready to go back to the Other World. When Ellery finds the hot weird guy who sometimes comes into the diner running from attackers one night, they step in to help and end up mixed up in the supernatural, despite all their skepticism....
Every so often, a star falls and is given a human form, in order to banish the shadowy scourge that overtakes the lands. Sol is tired of his fellow stars dying for unappreciative humans and plans to eradicate them, but getting to know some of them on the journey has him questioning his...
