I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
I love new things. Notebooks, weeks, months, and years are some of my favorites. Now that we’ve settled (or at least hopefully) into the flow of a brand new year, I find myself reflecting a bit on what I want to accomplish in this new year. I’m not […]
The Empress Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. He’s a ruthless, battle-scarred warrior with a dark past, and she’s stuck pretending to be his wife to save a fantasy kingdom. From New York […]
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: “It felt wrong to be sneaking out in […]
The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door Thank you to Orbit, Redhook, and Oliver Wehner for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. From the author of The Magician’s Daughter comes The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door, a mythic, magical tale full of secret […]
An Enchanting Case of Spirits When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz. Alyssa Mann isn’t adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom […]
Ooof, and we’re back to work. This week’s prompt is most anticipated books releasing in the first half of 2025, and I must admit that I haven’t really stayed on top of upcoming books unless they come across my radar on social media. In the last couple of […]
The Vanishing Bookstore Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture Audio for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. ‘Every story needs a happy ending. And you can’t have yours until you find the bookstore.’ 1692. On the outskirts of Salem, a bookstore […]
As the first bookish discussion post of 2025, I want to talk about ARCs. As book bloggers, this is something that comes up for so many of us, and it dominates a lot of my reading. Here’s some subtopics to consider: Feel free to get creative—tell me what […]
Welcome to 2025! I think this might be the earliest that I’ve ever thrown together a monthly/year-end wrap up post, but I was able to stay on top of my reading and reviewing so that I didn’t have to wait so long to create this post. I started […]
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 witch looked surprised to see me, her […]
