Showcase Sunday #16

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.

Hello everyone, I can’t believe two weeks have already last since our last showcase, before you know it will be Christmas already! For me the Christmas presents have already started trickling in. As you know my sister isn’t an avid reader as I am, so I can’t share bookish gifts with her, but my cousin is every bit obsessed as me and lately we’ve made sure we get each other a book for Christmas. My cousin spoiled me this year as she gifted me two books from my wish list, Front and Center and 7 Clues to Winning You. I’m loving the Dairy Queen series. I actually started the second book in a read along with the lovely Keertana and Leanne and zoomed right ahead and finished it without them! (sorry!). I think this series is a definite hidden gem everyone should read. I always wanted to read 7 Clues to Winning You after Nick recommended that fans of Anna and the French Kiss would love it.

Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye by Alison Goodman

Survive by Alex Morel

The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna

7 Clues to Winning You by Kristin Walker

Me Before You by JoJo Moyes

Front and Center by Catherine Gilbert Murdock.

Thank you to Electric Monkey and Random House UK.

I had to grab a copy of Eon when I realised my library stocked a copy (as usual my endless lurking on their catalogue paid off). I’ve been enjoying fantasy books a lot more lately and have you seen the number of 5 star reviews this book has a Goodreads? (4703!) And it’s an Aussie, enough said. Survive is another book I wouldn’t normally pick up, but the blurb sounds fascinating. You can check at the cover for it here. Thanks to Keertana’s fabulous review I was super excited when I had the chance to read a copy of The Lost Girl; doesn’t it look and sound fantastic? And I had to go and get a copy of Me Before You after reading Bonnie’s lovely review, I’ve never read book by Moyes before so I have my fingers crossed.

Gravity by Melissa West

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Thank you to NetGalley, Entangled Publishing and Atria Books.

I only received two books from Netgalley this week, I’m really trying to put a dent on my pile, but it’s so hard when you read gorgeous reviews for The Sea of Tranquillity by Keertana here and for Gravity by Sam here. Both of these ladies are getting the full blame for the awesomeness that arrived at my house this week! J

Over to Rachel now to see the pretties she received.

For review:

Taken by Erin Bowman

Pivot Point by Kasie West

Touch & Go by Lisa Gardner

The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay

Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt

If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch

Thank you to St. Martin’s Griffin, Harper Teen, Atria Books, Bloomsbury, Edelweiss, and Netgalley.

Bought:

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews (audiobook)
Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews (Audiobook)
Return to You by Kate Perry
The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

I am so excited to read If You Find Me, it sounds like an amazing contemporary. After being taken and isolated from the real world by their mentally ill mother, it’ll be interesting to see how things play out for Carey.  I loved Sean Griswold’s Head by Lindsey Leavitt, it was adorable. So I have high hopes for Going Vintage.  I’ve been having great success with audio books lately so I picked up another Urban Fantasy *looks pointedly at Maja and Keertana* lol!  I wasn’t blow away by Magic Bites but it was a solid start.  I’ve heard it only gets better. I can’t wait for things to develop between Kate and the yummy Alpha shape-shifter Curran! 

Thank you again to the fabulous publishers for our review copies! If you have a showcase/book haul, we'd love to see what you received so leave us a link and we'll be sure to check it out soon.