![Book Review: Salt Magic, Skin Magic by Lee Welch [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Salt-Magic-Skin-Magic-by-Lee-Welch-255x255.jpg)
Thornby has been trapped on his father's estate for over a year with some sort of magic, so when magician John Blake shows up, Thornby reaches out to him for help. John is stumped by the strange magic but is determined to free Thornby, and things get even more complicated as the men start to fall for each...
![Book Review: Caged (Baal’s Heart Book 1) by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Caged-Baals-Heart-Book-1-by-Bey-Deckard-255x255.jpg)
With no friends and only his unloving step-father as family, Jon's life is boring and miserable, so when he gets kidnapped and offered a job aboard Baltsaro's pirate ship, he accepts. But when he unexpectedly develops feelings for the cruel captain, and the captain takes a liking to him in return, it creates a riff between captain and first mate, and all three of them will have to sort out...
I'll start this post by getting the bad news out of the way. My face muscle/headache problem is still not better. I'm still waiting for a neurology appointment, but they're probably not going to find anything. So I don't know what's going to happen with my problem, and I don't know what's going to happen with my...
![Book Review: Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King Book 1) by Tricia Levenseller [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Daughter-of-the-Pirate-King-Daughter-of-the-Pirate-King-Book-1-by-Tricia-Levenseller-255x255.jpg)
Alosa purposely gets herself kidnapped by another ship on a mission for her father in order to find a piece of map she knows they must have, but, although she can escape any time she wants, finding the map proves harder than she thought. She also wasn't expecting to develop feelings for the first mate, but the more time she spends around him, the more she's drawn to...
The Bastards have been dealt a harsh blow, and Fetching is left to clean up the mess as things only seem to go from bad to worse to even worse. She and her people are being attacked on all sides---figuratively and sometimes literally---but her hoof brothers are still by her side, even if their numbers are dwindling, and she's going to find a way to save her people or die...
![Book Review: Beauty and His Beast by Bey Deckard [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Beauty-and-His-Beast-by-Bey-Deckard-255x255.jpg)
Juniper Bo wakes from 17 years in a stasis pod to find himself on a strange ship containing no one but a grouchy captain and two AIs with far more personality than normal. Captain Marrex, exiled due to a curse, has been lonely and starts to enjoy the company of Juniper but fears the human will never actually...
Since I love vampire books, it makes sense that I do, in fact, enjoy some of the vampire tropes out there. If I didn't, I probably wouldn't be a fan. And some of my absolute favorite books are about pretty typical gorgeous, brooding vampires. So I'm not complaining that books with the tropes exist. But all tropes all the time can get repetitive and boring. That's why I also happen to love when...
![Book Review: Carry On (Simon Snow Book 1) by Rainbow Rowell [+ Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Carry-On-Simon-Snow-Book-1-by-Rainbow-Rowell-255x255.jpg)
Simon is in his last year at Watford, a school for magicians, but he still doesn't feel like the chosen one since he still can't control his magic. When his roommate and enemy, Baz, gets a Visiting from his dead mother, the two form a truce as they work together to uncover the truth about her...
With things rapidly changing on both Loom and Nova, it's time for plans to be put into action. The Fenthri on Loom and the dragons of House Xin will have to put aside their differences with each other and among themselves and work together if they want to win against the Dragon King's might and his mate's shady...
Technically, I'm not back from my hiatus yet, but, well, I'll explain. I've been having this problem with some of the muscles in my face, kinda like an RSI, but it gets worse and gives me bad headaches whenever I do anything that causes a lot of eye motion or anything that causes the muscles to move. So pretty much everything, but especially reading, using the computer (which includes...
