I'm Leah! The woman behind Leah's Books, a blog where I write book reviews and post other bookish content.
The Witching Hour From the author of the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles comes a huge, hypnotic novel of witchcraft and the occult through four centuries. Demonstrating, once again, her gift for spellbinding storytelling and the creation of legend, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of witches—a […]
Dark Rise CONTENT WARNING: murder, death of a parent, grief, blood, violence, racism, torture, gore, trauma The ancient world of magic is no more. Its heroes are dead, its halls are ruins, and its great battles between Light and Dark are forgotten. Only the Stewards remember, and they […]
In addition to reading books as often as I can, I’ve also started doing freelance proofreading. I have a Facebook page that you can find here. I do basic line edits, and will find typos, issues with punctuation, and inconsistencies within the text. I work with Young Adult […]
This week’s topic is book to movie or series adaptations, and it’s a tough one for me because I have such a vivid imagination. Somehow, the screen version of the book never quite lives up to what I pictured while reading the book. But every so often, there […]
The Bone Shard Emperor Thank you to Orbit Books and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: grief, violence, blood, murder, gore, death In this stunning sequel to The Bone Shard Daughter, the new Empress finally sits […]
You Are My Sunshine: A Story of Love, Promises, and a Really Long Bike Ride CONTENT WARNING: mention of cancer A laugh-out-loud funny true story of a loving relationship, a grand adventure, and a promise kept. It was only a few years after the starry-eyed young couple got […]
Before I start talking about the books on my Spring TBR, I want to check in on the books I had listed on my winter TBR. Ok, not too bad – 7 out of 10! That’s actually better than I thought I would do. I got a bit […]
Paper Cuts Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Cozies for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: grief, suicide, racism, stereotypes about Indigenous people (challenged), cancer, murder, ableism, harmful language about neurodivergent people, violence Miracle Springs, North Carolina, is […]
The Cartographers Thank you YA Books Central and HarperCollins for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. You can find my YA Books Central review here. CONTENT WARNING: suicidal ideation, depression As far as I could tell, I hadn’t learned a single […]
The Bone Shard Daughter CONTENT WARNING: blood, death, grief, violence, abuse, gore, murder The emperor’s reign has lasted for decades, his mastery of bone shard magic powering the animal-like constructs that maintain law and order. But now his rule is failing, and revolution is sweeping across the Empire’s […]
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