![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...
Damiskos returns home to find out his parents have frittered away their money and want him to marry, and then, complicating things further, he's accused of murder. Varazda shows up and sets out to find the real murderer and fix everything so that he and Dami can maybe finally get their happily ever...
Varazda is excited to have Damiskos come to visit and meet his family after a month apart, but then everything starts going wrong, including his family's distrust and hostile attitudes toward Dami. Then there's talk of a possible murder, and though it's not how the two wanted to spend their time together, they can't help but end up in the middle of...
Damiskos, disabled from his time in the military, is at a seaside villa when he meets and is drawn to the slave Varazda. But there's more going on among the guests than it first seems---espionage and intrigue---and definitely more to Varazda, which Damiskos uncovers as he helps him and grows closer to...
