James, once a dashing, feared pirate captain, is now an old man with an aging body and a well of grief. When something dark slips from Neverland into London looking for him, he ends up entangled with Wendy and Jane, drawn back to Neverland, hoping to finally fix his...
What if Romeo and Juliet did things a little differently and things didn't end up the way they did? With this book, you get to choose their actions for them and find out how things might've gone, with paths that vary from never meeting to becoming time traveling ghosts, and everything in...
![Book Review: Capt. Hook – The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J. V. Hart [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Capt.-Hook-The-Adventures-of-a-Notorious-Youth-by-J.-V.-Hart-255x255.jpg)
When James gets sent to Eton, he stands up to the bullies and quickly makes a name for himself, hated by some and admired by others. He befriends spiders to do his bidding, gets into a duel, falls for a young sultana, and eventually finds himself working on a ship with his best friend, hoping to one day find...
I've got some more holiday book reviews! I know, I know, I've done a lot of Christmas posts this year, and I might still do one or two more quick reviews, but I'll be getting back to the usual stuff soon. Anyway, most of these are about Christmas, but one is more about general holidays with a bit of Hanukkah. Most are m/m. One is a collection of short stories. And yes, two have the words...
![Book Review: The King of Infinite Space by Lyndsay Faye [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-King-of-Infinite-Space-by-Lyndsay-Faye-255x255.jpg)
When Ben's father dies, he asks his best friend---even though they haven't talked in months---to come back to the States because he needs him. When they discover it might've been murder, they attempt to unravel the mystery, while also navigating Ben's internal struggles and the fact that Horatio is hopelessly in love. Meanwhile, Ben's ex starts unraveling her own mysteries with the help of three...
![Book Review: Hook’s Tale by John Leonard Pielmeier [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Hooks-Tale-by-John-Leonard-Pielmeier-255x255.jpg)
James Cook III runs away from Eton after an incident, gets conscripted into the British Navy by a press gang at the age of 14, and ends up in Neverland. His time there, and everything he learns about his past, changes him. He claims Barrie's tale is incorrect, so this is the story of his life, as told by...
In Vicious, two men decide to give themselves supernatural abilities, but it doesn’t quite turn out how they planned. In The Night Circus, two magicians are pitted against each other in a lifelong contest, using a magical traveling circus as their playing field. In Lost Boy, James tells the tale of how he started out in Neverland as a Lost Boy and eventually became Captain Hook. Enjoy (or maybe...
![Book Review: The Henchmen of Zenda by KJ Charles [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Henchmen-of-Zenda-by-KJ-Charles-255x255.jpg)
Jasper Detchard is recruited to be part of the inner circle of Michael, brother to the soon-to-be king of Ruritania, but his loyalty lies with Michael's mistress, a friend who once saved his life. Things go awry for Michael and his men when their attempt to steal the throne fails and an imposter shows up to the king's coronation, and Jasper will have to balance various different plots and plans...
![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...
![Book Review: Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Never-Never-by-Brianna-R.-Shrum-255x255.jpg)
Thirteen-year-old James Hook agrees to go to Neverland with the enchanting and odd Peter Pan on the grounds that he'll be able to come back home, only to find once he's there that he's stuck there forever. When he grows too old to be a Lost Boy anymore, he joins his pirate crew and becomes the fiercest captain on the...
