I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq In a remote corner of the world, forgotten for nearly three thousand years, lived an enclave of Kurdish Jews so isolated that they still spoke Aramaic, the language of Jesus. Mostly illiterate, they were self-made […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Just before I knock on the door of […]
The War Beyond Thank you to Orbit for sending me an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. In this thrilling sequel to the international bestseller The Gods Below, loyalties will be tested, long-lost secrets will be revealed, and two sisters will face each other […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “The client was too focused on Gloria to […]
Impostor Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. There’s a killer inside all of us… After an elite criminal profiling unit is shut down amidst a storm of scandal and mismanagement, only […]
Happy New Year! Although not much has changed between December 31 and January 1, it always feels like a fresh start to me. I stopped making resolutions, because they feel so rigid to me. As soon as I’ve ‘messed up,’ it’s like I lose all momentum and can’t […]
A Very Novel Murder Thank you to NetGalley and Storm Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Opening a detective agency above her beloved bookstore seems like the perfect business plan—until Annie Murray’s first case involves a suspicious death […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “On the day his corpse nightmare began, Tom […]
The Ex Thank you to NetGalley and Brilliance Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A dark past. A fresh start. A new nightmare waiting to begin. Willow McAllister is desperate to start over. Quiet town. Blank slate. No […]
What Boys Learn Thank you to NetGalley and Recorded Books for providing me with an ARC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. A twisty, jaw-dropping psychological thriller that unravels a mother’s worst nightmare—that her child is capable of terrible violence—when her teenage son becomes a […]
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