I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
A Long Time Gone Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. It’s time to put the past to rest… Ben Packard was just a boy when his older brother disappeared. Ben watched […]
I hope everyone has been enjoying their weekend. In these here parts and many others across the country, we’re getting snow. This isn’t abnormal for winter in New York, but in my part of the state, we haven’t really had more than a dusting of snow in years. […]
Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation’s last segregated asylums, that New York Times bestselling author Clint Smith describes as “a book that left me breathless.” On a cold […]
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 peculiar gargoyle, who spoke mostly in broken […]
Greenteeth Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. From an outstanding new voice in cozy fantasy comes Greenteeth, a tale of fae, folklore, and found family, narrated by a charismatic lake-dwelling monster with a voice unlike […]
The Outcast Mage Thank you to Orbit and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. In the glass city of Amoria, magic is everything. And Naila, a student at the city’s legendary academy, is running out of time to […]
Happy Tuesday y’all! I hope February is treating you well so far. We’ve gotten a little light snow over the weekend, and I had a great time celebrating my birthday with family. Which is also why I’m so late in responding to comments and blog hopping. This week’s […]
Hello February! January has become a month full of joy mixed with a drop of sadness for my family since my father passed six years ago. We have always had a lot of January birthdays in the family, and my dad had one in January as well. But […]
Happy February, and I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Last week was my birthday, and I got taken out to a nice Spanish restaurant to have dinner with family. It was a wonderful time, seeing my brothers was great, and even seeing one of my nephews! But […]
I finished December with 18 ARCs left to be read. January was a great month. There are multiple birthdays amongst my extended family, and within my immediate family, my brother, sister-in-law, and I all have birthday in January. We also remember my father on his birthday, which was […]
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