I was watching Lisa Frankenstein recently, and also thinking about how I needed to make some blog posts, and it reminded me that I've always meant to do a post like this. I was just waiting to have enough books I could personally recommend. Frankenstein is one of my favorite classics, less so for the writing itself (sorry, Mary, I find a lot of classics are just overly wordy), but because the...
![Book Review: Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Spare-and-Found-Parts-by-Sarah-Maria-Griffin-255x255.jpg)
Nell lives in a small post-apocalyptic city in a future where computers are banned and people are born with missing body parts, which her father, the brilliant Dr. Crane, replaces with biomechanic limbs. Nell needs to think of a contribution to society that will live up to her parents', and when she finds a mannequin hand, she has the perfect idea---artificial...
Victor has sworn off alchemy, but the torment of an unkept promise and the allure of a strange box he finds in the ashes of the Dark Library tempt him into new territory---the spirit world. Victor's good intentions quickly turn to dangerous obsession, and Victor, Konrad, Elizabeth, and Henry may be in even more danger with each foray into this other...
![Book Review: Creatures – The Legacy of Frankenstein [Anthology]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Creatures-The-Legacy-of-Frankenstein-edited-by-Various-Authors-255x255.jpg)
This anthology has five stories, each inspired in their way by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In one, a man uses Victor's notes to figure out how to make his own creation. In the next, a couple combines taxidermy and science to resurrect a beautiful woman. In another, a man recalls his young life and his run-in with a monster. In yet another, a detective takes on a case involving stolen body parts....
When Victor's twin, Konrad, comes down with a mysterious illness, Victor, Elizabeth, and Henry set out to use alchemy to make an elixir that will heal him. But many things stand in their way, including dangerous quests to get ingredients, Victor's father, and Victor's struggle with his own feelings toward his brother and...
This post is completely random. I just felt like talking about the things I'm super into right now. Is this post pointless since I'll probably end up doing recommendation posts for all these topics at some point? Will I ever do one of these posts again? Will it become a feature? Will these things turn into long-lasting, passionate bookish love affairs, rather than mere infatuations? Maybe even...
![Book Review: Cadaver & Queen (Cadaver & Queen Book 1) by Alisa Kwitney (+ a Mini Discussion about Souls) [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Cadaver-Queen-by-Alisa-Kwitney-255x255.jpg)
Lizzie has enough to deal with, being the first female medical student at Ingold, but then she comes across Victor, a bio-mechanical who seems more human than reanimated corpse, unlike all the others. Victor's memory is still fuzzy, but he's pretty sure he was murdered and that something sinister is going on. Victor doesn't want Lizzie putting herself in danger, but Lizzie is determined to figure...
When Alasdair's older brother, Oliver, dies, he resurrects him, only to realize Oliver isn't quite the same person he was in his first life. For two years he keeps Oliver hidden away, riddled with grief and guilt, but when his family gets caught for being mechanics who illegally help people with mechanical parts and Alasdair gets offered refuge and everything he's always wanted from an old family...
