Making art for Mermay got me back into an art mood, so I set to work on one of the numerous started-and-paused drawings I have. I struggled with it a lot and am not entirely happy with how the drawing came out, but I do like the coloring. It had been a long time since I'd done a portrait with semi-realistic coloring (as in, not cel shading or watercolor splotches). Anyway, it's Jacobin and...
![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...
It's me, I'm the fantasy reader! I found this tag on Howling Libraries, and it seems the original was created by Bree Hill about romance books. I'm not sure who came up with the idea to make it about fantasy, but since I am a fantasy reader, I'm glad someone...
Jayce was taken and forced (with a magical collar) to work for the Dark Lord when we was a child, so he makes a deal with captured knight Alexius. Once the Dark Lord is defeated and Jayce is free, having no where else to go, he stays with Alexius while he figures things out and finds his feelings for the other man...
![Book Review: The Alchemy of Moonlight by David Ferraro [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Alchemy-of-Moonlight-by-David-Ferraro-255x255.jpg)
Emile is working as a servant to hide from his aunt until he turns 18, but his plans go awry when his aunt finds him anyway. Then it turns out the secrets this family has are more dangerous than Emile realized, and falling for two different young men only complicates things...
I've still been struggling a lot lately. So I'm sorry that I still have not been visiting or chatting with everyone much. I've been posting here less too, but I'm still going. I've also been listening to fewer books, but podcasts have been great. Among my usuals, I've been bingeing a trivia podcast called Good Job, Brain! It's interesting and fun. As for games, I've still been playing Sun...
![Book Review: Bored Gay Werewolf by Tony Santorella [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Bored-Gay-Werewolf-by-Tony-Santorella-255x255.jpg)
Brian was turned into a werewolf, and now he's a struggling food service worker who pushes people away, drinks too much, and maybe occasionally kills a jogger in the park. When a man shows up determined to start a werewolf self help program, Brian gets roped in, but then things start taking a...
Callum's mother died years ago, and now he lives alone in their cabin in the woods. But one snowy day he rescues an injured sparrow, who turns into a winged man, and both find themselves falling for each...
![Book Review: Deadbeat Druid (Adam Binder Book 3) by David R. Slayton [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Deadbeat-Druid-Adam-Binder-Book-3-by-David-R.-Slayton-255x255.jpg)
Vic has disappeared into another realm, and Adam is going to get him back, along with whoever decides they're coming with, despite Adam's protests. But the druid is there too, and it will be a dangerous journey for everyone...
I'm back with more first lines of books! As I have said many times, I don't think the first line is the most important. I don't think most people are going to stop reading if the first line isn't amazing. But I still think it can be fun and interesting to look at them. And I think an interesting one presented without context in a post like this might grab someone's attention enough to try a book....
