Added To My TBR In December

It may have been the last month of 2018 but it certainly didn’t stop me from adding to my shelves! I didn’t receive that many books as gifts this year but it didn’t stop me spending some of the money I got on more books as I hit the sales in the past couple of days!

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ARCs

I was lucky enough to receive an email from the team at Bonnier Zaffre to advise they had a few proofs left over and to get in touch if I was interested. They very kindly sent me The Island by M. A. Bennett

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Subscription Boxes

Once again my Wildest Dreams book box was a delight to open. This month’s theme was The Best Of YA 2018 and the featured book was The Light Between Worlds by Laura Weymouth. It also included a Chocolate Frog Soap inspired by Harry Potter, a spiced black tea inspired by The Cruel Prince and beautiful necklace inspired by A Thousand Perfect Notes and a pouch of chocolate coins inspired by Everless. One of these days I’ll actually managed to post an unboxing when it arrives!

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Bought

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Safe to say I took advantage of Waterstones sale and some of the Christmas money I received and purchased a book or two or seven… I picked up a couple from Amazon too.

• The Chalk Man by C. J. Tudor – I’d been thinking about this one for a while and when I spotted it on a table in the Dunfermline Waterstones with little chalk men sprayed on the edges and printed on the spine I had to have it!
• Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh – This is apparently the fourth in a series but I had no idea when I picked it up, I was just looking for a second book in the Waterstones offer and this sounded so interesting!
• The Curses by Laure Eve – I think Edinburgh Waterstones may have put this one out a little early but it certainly caught my eye when I spotted it on one of their tables. The matching edition of The Graces is also on order for me to read first so expect that in next month’s post.
• The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken – I was looking for the second of my buy one get one half price purchases and the dark aspects of this appealed to me! It’s the first in a series of four so I’m looking forward to seeing how I get on with it.
• Murder Most Unladylike by Robin Stevens – One of my closest blogging friends Amy at Golden Books Girl always raves about this series so I decided it was finally time to pick one up!
• Broken Ground by Val McDermid – I love Val’s work and truth be told I actually prefer the DI Karen Pirie series to her more well known Wire in the Blood series. This came out in hard back earlier in 2018 but there’s a part of me that’s reluctant to spend nearly £20 on a hardback when I could get several paperbacks for the same price. It was half price in the Waterstones sale though so I picked it up while waiting on a friend in Dundee.
• Princess in Practice by Connie Glynn – I didn’t love the first book in the Rosewood Chronicles series but I liked it enough to be intrigued by the second book, the hardback was half price in the sales so I figured why now.
• The Window by Amelia Brunskill – I saw the plot of this on the Barnes and Nobel teen blog and it sounds great, it’s been sitting on my Amazon wishlist for a little while so I finally clicked buy now.
• Evermore by Sara Holland – This one was released on the 31st December and after adoring Everless I knew I had to preorder this one to arrive on release day! I expect this will be my first read of 2019!

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Gifted

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One of my closest friends looked through my Amazon wish list and bought me Becoming by Michelle Obama to go in my Santa Sack at her’s for Christmas Day. I also took part in a Secret Santa and was lucky enough to receive Heart Sick and A Bad Boy Stole My Bra from my gifter. The books came with a whole wonderful range of other items that I’ve popped a picture of below. There were also some Slytherin socks that I’d already worn by the time I took the photo!

So that’s what I added to my TBR last month! If you had a wee book buying spree let me know what you bought in the comments!