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I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.

Kantika By Elizabeth Graver

Kantika Thank you to NetGalley and Metropolitan Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New York, exploring displacement, endurance, and family as home. A kaleidoscopic portrait […]

A Curious Beginning By Deanna Raybourn

A Curious Beginning CONTENT WARNING: death, violence, attempted kidnapping, murder, blood London, 1887. After burying her spinster aunt, orphaned Veronica Speedwell is free to resume her world travels in pursuit of scientific inquiry—and the occasional romantic dalliance. As familiar with hunting butterflies as with fending off admirers, Veronica […]

Emperor Of Ruin By Django Wexler

Emperor of Ruin Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: blood, gore, violence, torture Two siblings divided by magic and revolution must finally join forces and rally the people to take down […]

The Last Russian Doll By Kristen Loesch

The Last Russian Doll CONTENT WARNING: murder, death of children, blood, alcoholism, death of a parent, child abuse, violence, miscarriage, starvation, gore, death, bullying, suicide A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last […]

Monthly Wrap Up March 2023

March feels like it went by quickly, and it was a hectic month. Since it was so busy, I didn’t get as much done reading-wise as I was hoping to, but I also had some fun celebrating Purim, a Jewish holiday. However, it also meant that Passover is […]

TTT – Indie/Self-Published Books

This week’s topic is all about indie/self-published books, and it was submitted by Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits. Unfortunately, it’s a tough prompt for me. As a disabled person who doesn’t have a lot of income, I rely on the library, NetGalley, and ARCs from a publisher for the […]

The Tyranny Of Faith By Richard Swan

The Tyranny of Faith Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: blood, suicide, gore, kidnapping, grief, trauma, torture, violence, gore, alcoholism, mention of death of a child, death From a major new […]