![Book Review: By Vow and Royal Bloodshed (Blood Ladders Trilogy Book 2) by M.C.A. Hogarth [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-By-Vow-and-Royal-Bloodshed-Blood-Ladders-Trilogy-Book-2-by-M.C.A.-Hogarth-255x255.jpg)
Having learned that he's an elven prince, Morgan's whole life has been changed. He goes back home, explains the situation to his friends, and they all head to the athenaeum at Vigil to open the sealed vault and find the answers they...
I haven't been able to put together book cover posts lately because of my headache problems, but nobody panic! I still managed to make this post to showcase some of my favorite covers from the books I read this year :-) Unfortunately I couldn't include ALL the covers I loved (there were so many!), and I couldn't make the collage, but I've still got some super gorgeous book covers here, and I...
Everyone knows Drosselmeier as the mysterious toymaker and godfather to the Stahlbaum children who gifts them with a Nutcracker one Christmas Eve. From his childhood as a foundling in a forest, to his confusing teen and young adult years with different families in Germany, to his old age making toys for Klara, this book tells the story of his...
![Book Review: The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Afterlife-of-Holly-Chase-by-Cynthia-Hand-255x255.jpg)
One Christmas Eve, Holly was visited by three ghosts who urged her to change her ways, but she didn't listen. Five years later, she's spending her afterlife working for that very same company as the Ghost of Christmas Past and hating every minute of it, until she unexpectedly finds herself relating to their newest...
![Book Review: Wayward Son (Simon Snow Book 2) by Rainbow Rowell [+ Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Wayward-Son-Simon-Snow-Book-2-by-Rainbow-Rowell-255x255.jpg)
Simon Snow was the chosen one, but now that he's done what he was supposed to do, he can't seem to get past the trauma or do anything with his life. Hoping to bring him out of his funk, Penny convinces Simon and Baz to take a road trip through the US, but the three of them seem to find magical trouble wherever they...
![Book Review: An Heir to Thorns and Steel (Blood Ladders Trilogy Book 1) by M.C.A. Hogarth [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-An-Heir-to-Thorns-and-Steel-Blood-Ladders-Trilogy-Book-1-by-M.C.A.-Hogarth-255x255.jpg)
Morgan is a university student studying folklore when he discovers that not only are elves real, he might be their prince. Hoping to find a cure for his worsening disability, he goes to their lands and sets off on a quest, getting further entangled in danger and elf...
Long after an apocalyptic event, the last remaining humans on Earth are living in a domed society in Antarctica with the elves who stayed behind to help them. When best friends Felix and Ripley learn that Felix's wife is having twins but will have to have one removed because of the one child policy, they have to find a way out or a place to hide before that...
![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: 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...
![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...
