Young Adult | Genre | Metaphors and Moonlight

Book Review: Ruthless Gods (Something Dark and Holy Book 2) by Emily A. Duncan [Audiobook]

With a coup at their doorstep, Serefin, Nadya, Malachiasz, and friends flee the palace and end up on a quest into a dangerous forest of legend. Each has their own goals and motives, but each might be nothing more than a pawn to the gods in a much bigger...

Book Review: Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy Book 1) by Emily A. Duncan [Audiobook]

Nadya can communicate with the gods, and she may be the last cleric in Kalyazin who can do so, which is why she's been hidden away in a monastery---in the hopes that she will turn the tide of the war in favor of her country. But when her monastery is attacked by the enemy---Tranavians---she flees and teams up with three others, including a Tranavian blood mage, in order to sneak into Tranavia,...

Book Review: Night of the Dragon (Shadow of the Fox Book 3) by Julie Kagawa [Audiobook]

Half-kitsune Yumeko and her friends are still on a mission to stop the Master of Demons from summoning the dragon and making a wish that will destroy the world as they know it, and the situation is more dire than ever. But secrets, plans, and enemies, both known and unknown, lie in wait to throw them off course at every...

Book Review: The Electric Heir (Feverwake Book 2) by Victoria Lee [Audiobook]

After the events of the last book, Noam turned to Lehrer, but with a shield on his mind, Lehrer's hold is broken, and Noam remembers the truth about everything and wants to bring him down. When he finds out Dara is still alive, Noam joins him as part of the resistance, but things aren't the same between them, and Dara knows that Lehrer is more dangerous than Noam...

Book Review: Spare and Found Parts by Sarah Maria Griffin [Audiobook]

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: Eve & Adam by Michael Grant & Katharine Applegate [Audiobook]

After an accident, Evening is taken to her mother's pharmaceutical complex to heal, where she's tasked with using a genetics program to create the perfect boy. But while she's there, she also meets a real boy named Solo and learns some secrets about herself and her mother's...

Book Review: Never Never by Brianna R. Shrum [Audiobook]

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...

Book Review: The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand [Audiobook]

One Christmas Eve, Holly was visited by three ghosts who urged her to change her ways, but she didn't listen. Five years later, she's spending her afterlife working for that very same company as the Ghost of Christmas Past and hating every minute of it, until she unexpectedly finds herself relating to their newest...

Book Review: Wayward Son (Simon Snow Book 2) by Rainbow Rowell

Simon Snow was the chosen one, but now that he's done what he was supposed to do, he can't seem to get past the trauma or do anything with his life. Hoping to bring him out of his funk, Penny convinces Simon and Baz to take a road trip through the US, but the three of them seem to find magical trouble wherever they...

Book Review: Daughter of the Pirate King (Daughter of the Pirate King Book 1) by Tricia Levenseller [Audiobook]

Alosa purposely gets herself kidnapped by another ship on a mission for her father in order to find a piece of map she knows they must have, but, although she can escape any time she wants, finding the map proves harder than she thought. She also wasn't expecting to develop feelings for the first mate, but the more time she spends around him, the more she's drawn to...