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...
![Book Review: Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Summer-Sons-by-Lee-Mandelo-255x255.jpg)
Andrew and Eddie grew up together, but then Eddie left to start his graduate program early, and now he's dead and haunting Andrew. When Andrew arrives in Nashville, he realizes there was a lot Eddie didn't tell him and sets out to solve the mystery of his friend's death while navigating grief, sexuality, a dangerous ghost, and Eddie's mysterious new...
![Book Review: Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow Book 3) by Rainbow Rowell [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Any-Way-the-Wind-Blows-Simon-Snow-Book-3-by-Rainbow-Rowell-255x255.jpg)
Their road trip didn't go quite as planned, and Simon is still depressed. Back home in England, Simon and Baz work through relationship struggles and try to learn about a new supposed "chosen one," Penny attempts to remove a demon curse from Shepard, Agatha starts working at her dad's place, and they all try to figure out where to go next in life and what makes them...
This time for my quick reviews I have the Folk of the Air series by Holly Black! (Minus The Lost Sisters, which will be in a separate post since it's a short story.) If you haven't heard of it, it's a YA series about a human raised in the fae realm. I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I wasn't a big fan. I was probably being a bit nice with my 3.5 star ratings, now that I think back on it,...
![Book Review: Ignite Me (Shatter Me Book 3) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Ignite-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-3-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
When Juliette wakes up in the last place she ever expected to be and receives terrible news, she finally decides that she's not the timid person she used to be and is ready to fight. Warner has the resources, Juliette has the strength, her friends have their own strengths and powers, and they all have the same goal: kill the Supreme Commander and take down The...
So I have this kind of accidental series going on here on my blog about my experience with audiobooks. It started with "Audiobooks, Yea or Nay?" in which I talked all about why I didn't like or listen to audiobooks. Two years later, I wrote a post titled "I'm Trying Audiobooks... and It's Not Going Well." That one's pretty self-explanatory, yes? Well, it's now been over three years since that...
In Trifles and Folly, Cassidy and co. use their supernatural gifts to solve mysteries and save the town from paranormal problems, plus there are a few stories from Sorren's POV when he was still a fairly young vampire. In Trifles and Folly 2, Cassidy and co. once again use their supernatural gifts to solve mysteries and save the town from paranormal problems, plus there are a few stories from the...
![Book Review: Unravel Me (Shatter Me Book 2) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Unravel-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-2-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
Now part of a group of rebels, many of whom have special abilities like her, Juliette starts trying to hone her powers as the group prepares for war. Juliette thought she'd be happy at Omega Point, but she's not so sure she fits in, and her relationship troubles, as well as an unplanned hostage situation, complicate...
![Book Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me Book 1) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Shatter-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-1-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
At 14, Juliette was taken from her parents and eventually left to rot in an asylum because her touch has the power to kill people. Years later, she's given the chance at a better life, in exchange for becoming a weapon of torture, and she'll have to decide if she's willing to pay that price or if she'd rather take her chances on the run with the only boy who's ever shown her...
![Book Review: Firestarter (Timekeeper Book 3) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Firestarter-Timekeeper-Book-3-by-Tara-Sim-255x255.jpg)
Clock mechanic Danny, clock spirit Colton, and their friends are still trapped on an airship, being threatened into going along with plans they don't believe in. But when a greater enemy emerges, they'll have to reconsider what's right and wrong and who their allies...
