I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
Ghost Mother Thank you to NetGalley, Union Square & Co., Dreamscape Media, and Angela Man for providing me with a copy of this ARC/ALC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: infertility, miscarriage (graphic), grief, murder, suicide, death of a child, abortion A mesmerizing psychological ghost story […]
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 Island tracked everything that washed ashore. An […]
I finished June with 29 ARCs left to be read. July was a really tough month for me. The heat has been brutal for me, with my heat intolerance and my POTS (postural orthostatic hypertension syndrome) combining to make it a difficult month to get out and do […]
Strange Folk Thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Zakiya Jamal for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: self-harm/blood magic, blood, addiction, death, violence, neglect, statutory rape (off-page), murder, domestic violence, grief, mention of genocide, gore A woman […]
I think every one of us has read a book and wished that it had more of less of something in it. This week’s prompt is books I wish had more/less [insert your concept here] in them (for example: more/less romance, more/less world building, less info dumping, more/fewer […]
Norse Mysticism: An Exploration of Viking Traditions and Magical Practices Thank you to NetGalley, Wellfleet Press, and Lydia Anderson for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. DISCOVER THE SACRED MYSTERIES OF THE ANCIENT NORSE WORLD. The Viking culture and time-honored mysticism […]
It’s another Sunday, and that means we have another discussion ahead of us. This week I want to discuss creative license. This is when an author intentionally strays from accepted facts to achieve an artistic goal. I’ve encountered this most often in historical fantasy—where the author changes an […]
The Black Bird Oracle Thank you to libro.fm and Penguin Random House Audio for providing me with an ALC of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly anticipated fifth novel of the beloved […]
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 girl watched from the blackberry bush as […]
The Fall of Waterstone Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. The mesmerizing Norse-inspired fantasy from New York Times bestselling Lilith Saintcrow continues. Solveig and her shieldmaid have finally reached the fabled Elder sanctuary […]
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