Cassia fled her home planet and life of royalty years ago, but now she's getting dragged back into it against her will, and it will up to the crew of the Banshee to help her. Political machinations and a planet on the verge of war make things complicated though, especially when it comes to her and Kane's feelings for each...
Reed should be safe after everything that happened in the last book, but he keeps thinking he sees Phil Rice around town, and his paranoia and anxiety are getting worse. Meanwhile, Mazarin can't seem to fit in with humans or with the other sentient AI she meets. And both of them struggle with confusing feelings and navigating romantic...
![Book Review: Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb Book 1) by Tamsyn Muir [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Gideon-the-Ninth-The-Locked-Tomb-Book-1-by-Tamsyn-Muir-255x255.jpg)
When the Ninth House necromancer receives a summons to take part in trials to ascend and become immortal, Gideon agrees to pretend to be her cavalier in exchange for freedom from indentured servitude. But not long after all the house necromancers and cavaliers arrive, people start being murdered, and they realize they're all trapped and going to die unless they can figure out what's going...
Lately I've been trying to devote full review posts, which take more time and energy, to books I really like. So for this quick reviews post, I've got a bunch of books I did not like and rated lower than 3 stars. We can't like every book, right? For the most part, despite having quite a few issues with some of these, they're "not for me" books, not necessarily bad books. But one was quite...
![Book Review: The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-The-Darkness-Outside-Us-by-Eliot-Schrefer-255x255.jpg)
Ambrose wakes from a coma on a space ship and knows his mission is to rescue his sister, but he remembers nothing about the launch, nor the info that there's another person on the ship. As time goes on and the two boys grow closer, they discover more and more strange clues that something is off about this...
This time for quick reviews I have the Psions of SPIRE series by Alex Silver! All four main books, plus two extra novellas. This is a series with diverse queer rep about people with psionic abilities (telekinesis, empathy, etc.). Each book focuses on different characters, but they're all connected into one storyline, so I recommend reading them in order. I enjoyed...
![Book Review: Ignite Me (Shatter Me Book 3) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Ignite-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-3-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
When Juliette wakes up in the last place she ever expected to be and receives terrible news, she finally decides that she's not the timid person she used to be and is ready to fight. Warner has the resources, Juliette has the strength, her friends have their own strengths and powers, and they all have the same goal: kill the Supreme Commander and take down The...
![Book Review: Unravel Me (Shatter Me Book 2) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Unravel-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-2-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
Now part of a group of rebels, many of whom have special abilities like her, Juliette starts trying to hone her powers as the group prepares for war. Juliette thought she'd be happy at Omega Point, but she's not so sure she fits in, and her relationship troubles, as well as an unplanned hostage situation, complicate...
![Book Review: Shatter Me (Shatter Me Book 1) by Tahereh Mafi [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Shatter-Me-Shatter-Me-Book-1-by-Tahereh-Mafi-255x255.jpg)
At 14, Juliette was taken from her parents and eventually left to rot in an asylum because her touch has the power to kill people. Years later, she's given the chance at a better life, in exchange for becoming a weapon of torture, and she'll have to decide if she's willing to pay that price or if she'd rather take her chances on the run with the only boy who's ever shown her...
![Book Review: Firestarter (Timekeeper Book 3) by Tara Sim [Audiobook]](https://metaphorsandmoonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/Book-Review-Firestarter-Timekeeper-Book-3-by-Tara-Sim-255x255.jpg)
Clock mechanic Danny, clock spirit Colton, and their friends are still trapped on an airship, being threatened into going along with plans they don't believe in. But when a greater enemy emerges, they'll have to reconsider what's right and wrong and who their allies...
