![Book Review: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-In-the-Lives-of-Puppets-by-TJ-Klune-255x255.jpg)
Victor is a human who's lived his whole life in a remote forest with three robots: an inventor who raised him, an anxious vacuum, and a threatening nurse bot. But when they find a broken android in the scrapyard one day who defies the purpose he was created for, it sets off a series of events, Victor's dad gets taken, and the others set out to rescue...
![Book Review: Gravity Lost (Ambit’s Run Book 2) by L.M. Sagas [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Gravity-Lost-Ambits-Run-Book-2-by-L.M.-Sagas-255x255.jpg)
When a new problem arises, Jal reluctantly turns to the Ambit crew for help, even though he doesn't want them mixed up in trouble too. But they find themselves in the middle of a bigger mystery than they...
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: 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...
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...
![Book Review: The Archive Undying (The Downworld Sequence Book 1) by Emma Mieko Candon [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Archive-Undying-The-Downworld-Sequence-Book-1-by-Emma-Mieko-Candon-255x255.jpg)
When his AI god corrupted and died while Sunai was interfacing with them, it changed him, making him immortal and putting a target on his back. So far, he's escaped the notice of the governing body that forces people like him into AI mech bodies to use them for violence. But then he gets entangled with a man who could very well figure out and turn him in for his secret, and his life only gets...
Ace in Space is a quick, queer sci-fi visual novel / dating sim about an asexual nonbinary person with cancer who gets the chance to go live on another planets in an idyllic community. Date and befriend robot aliens and one human (or not) and discover a variety of...
Valentine needs money so he can get into the city and get hormones and surgery, so when he and his salvaging partner are offered a job to retrieve stolen androids, they take it. But between feelings for the cute AI in an android body helping them, disagreements with his partner, salt pirates, and the jerks they're working for, things could get...
Reed should be safe after everything that happened in the last book, but he keeps thinking he sees Phil Rice around town, and his paranoia and anxiety are getting worse. Meanwhile, Mazarin can't seem to fit in with humans or with the other sentient AI she meets. And both of them struggle with confusing feelings and navigating romantic...
Lately I've been trying to devote full review posts, which take more time and energy, to books I really like. So for this quick reviews post, I've got a bunch of books I did not like and rated lower than 3 stars. We can't like every book, right? For the most part, despite having quite a few issues with some of these, they're "not for me" books, not necessarily bad books. But one was quite...
