Growing up in poverty with family who constantly put him down, Tadek didn't have the best childhood. Until one day a princess noticed him, and her kindness changed everything. She's gone though, and Tadek has carried his grief alone all this time, but it might be time for someone else to...
![Book Review: Reclaimed (The World of Reforged Book 3) by Seth Haddon [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Reclaimed-The-World-of-Reforged-Book-3-by-Seth-Haddon-255x255.jpg)
Saba, a scholar researching the astral sea, has been arrested and accused of murder after his device caused the death of many people, including a foreign politician. When someone from the foreign country comes to take Saba and investigate, he starts to believe Saba might be innocent, and they work together to uncover the...
![Book Review: The Hymn to Dionysus by Natasha Pulley [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Hymn-to-Dionysus-by-Natasha-Pulley-255x255.jpg)
Phaidros is a knight in Ancient Thebes who's been tasked with finding the queen's runaway son, but weird things are happening. As a child, Phaidros once saved a strange, magical baby from a fire, and as a young adult, he didn't save a strange, magical boy on a ship, and now a captivating stranger has shown up in the city, everyone is losing themselves to madness, and Phaidros thinks his past has...
![Book Review: The Last Light Left Burning (All That’s Left in the World Book 2) by Erik J. Brown [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Only-Light-Left-Burning-All-Thats-Left-in-the-World-Book-2-by-Erik-J.-Brown-255x255.jpg)
Andrew and Jamie have joined a settlement trying to rebuild in the post-apocalyptic world, but while Andrew has started making the place a home, Jamie still wants to leave. When things start going wrong, survival becomes priority again, but they'll still have to decide what's most important to...
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: Cursed Cocktails (Tales of Aedrea Book 1) by S.L. Rowland [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Cursed-Cocktails-Tales-of-Aedrea-Book-1-by-S.L.-Rowland-255x255.jpg)
Rhoren is an elven blood mage, but the magic has taken its toll on his body, so he moves to a warmer climate and decides to open a tavern using his late father's recipes. He teams up with bartender Callum, and they grow close while making new friends and running a business...
![Book Review: The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Spear-Cuts-Through-Water-by-Simon-Jimenez-255x255.jpg)
Told as a story within a story, Keema and Jun travel across their world with a dying goddess in order to end the rule of the Emperor and his three sons known as the Three Terrors. But the Terrors are looking for this goddess---their mother---and Jun's blood-soaked past and the people's hatred for him further complicates their...
![Book Review: A Power Unbound (The Last Binding Book 3) by Freya Marske [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-A-Power-Unbound-The-Last-Binding-Book-3-by-Freya-Marske-255x255.jpg)
Lord Hawthorn, who tried to run away from magic years ago, is stuck unhappily in the middle of a magical conspiracy, living in a magical house with the people who dragged him into it. And he finds himself very badly wanting Alan, the writer/thief who might hate him but holds his own against Jack's verbal sparring in a way no one else ever...
Fiore, a courtesan with few options, plans to find an older man whose money can have him taken care of for life, but meeting Enzo, a masked duke who hasn't felt like himself for a while, throws a wrench into those plans. Their pasts may bring struggles, but they find themselves falling for each...
![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...
