Showcase Sunday #3

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Vicky at Books, Biscuits and Tea. The aim is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week.

As I missed out on a Showcase Sunday last week, this post covers all the books I received over the last two weeks. 

For review:

Pushing The Limits by Katie McGarry

Crazy by Amy Reed

Never Enough by Denise Jaden

Thank you to Netgalley, Harlequin and Simon and Schuster Galley Grab. 

These books hadn’t even caught my radar until the last week, but they have been receiving some great reviews that I get wait to get stuck in especially with Crazy.  

Bought:

Slide By Jill Hathaway

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Struck by Jennifer Bosworth

I decided to treat myself this week and went on a bit of an Amazon splurge. Slide and Struck I’d wanted to read for some time now and with interesting premises and an eye catching cover (Struck) I decided to go for it. Anna and The French Kiss was one of my all-time favourite contemporary YA novels last year, it’s one of those books that I get all giddy over with whenever I spot it on my bookshelf. I’d wanted to buy Lola and the Boy Next Door as soon as it was released but decided to put it off. I’m hoping that it will be just as good as Anna!

Borrowed:

Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris

Such a Pretty Girl by Laura Wiess

How it Ends by Laura Wiess

When it Happens by Susane Colasanti

The Sookie Stackhouse series has really lost the action and charm that once drew me to the series in the first place I was tempted to drop the series after book 11, but decided to give it one last chance. Things aren’t looking too great so far as reviews have been disappointing, but who knows may be I may end up enjoying it? Laura Wiess has been an author whose books I’d wanted to read for ages! So I was pretty stoked to discover that my library stocked her books. I was only meant to leave with How it Ends, but then I saw Such a Pretty Girl; it sounds a lot different to my usual reads, it has a much darker feel to it, but I was just drawn to the cover and knew I had to read this too.  I finished Colasanti’s Keep Holding On the other day and absolutely loved it, I actually sobbed my way through most of the second half, but promised myself that I would make a start on her other books as soon as I could. I’m hoping When it Happens will be a lighter read and that I won’t be left with big puffy eyes the next morning.

Swapped/ Freebie:

Bumped by Megan McCafferty

Clarity by Kim Harrington
Loving Emily by Anne Pfeffer

Bumped and Clarity were books which I had on my wish list for a while, so I’m grateful to Kay and Nina at U.K swap shop for trading with me! 

Won:

Wander Dust by Michelle Warren

Wander Dust was another book which I’d heard awesome things about, so thank you to Mel at Mel’s Book blog for the giveaway. 

So another great two weeks of books for me, what goodies did you get this week?