Showcase Sunday (4)

Showcase Sunday is a meme hosted by Vicky @ Books, Biscuits and Tea where you can showcase your newest books and book related swag for that week and share it with everyone.

I've not managed to do a Showcase Sunday for a couple of weeks so I have a bunch of new books to show you :)

Spud and Chloe at the Farm is a book of knitting patterns so you can knit a farm (barn, fences, hay bales, buckets etc) and all the farm animals (sheep, cows, chickens, pigs etc), as well as a doll called Chloe. I'm planning on working through it this year and making a farm for my niece and nephew for Christmas.

Cinnamon Roll Murder is the newest paperback release in Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swensen cozy mystery series. As much as I love the mysteries (and the included cookie recipes) I'm getting really annoyed with the love triangle, when you get to book 15 there really needs to be some kind of resolution. I'm now reaching the end of my patience and may have to give up on the series soon.

I preordered Dance of Shadows after seeing a fair amount of good press for it. The story sounds interesting and the cover is pretty. Now it's arrived I'm very impressed by the animated cover (it works with a free app on your phone), but the constant hype is starting to worry me as I've generally found the more hyped a book is the worse it is.

House Rules is the latest installment in the Chicagoland Vampires series and one I'm really looking forward to. This has been preordered (along with the August release) since last year and I'm super excited to read it as the last book has changed Merit's world a lot.

I popped into Waterstones last week on impulse and found The Indigo Spell sitting on the shelf before its release date! So I quickly cancelled my amazon preorder and snatched up a copy. Of all the books here, this one I read and absoluetely adored. My review will be coming very soon :)

The Indigo Spell was on a buy one, get one half price special so I also picked up a copy of  Seraphina which I've heard great things about. I haven't read any fantasy in ages and I love anything with dragons so I thought I'd give this a try.

I can't believe Sever is out and the Chemical Garden trilogy has come to an end. I loved the first two so I'm looking forward to getting stuck into this and seeing where everyone ends up. I want happy endings for Rhine, Gabriel and Cecily, a horrible end for Vaughn and honestly I'm not bothered by Linden.

Last up is Three Tales from the Sketchbook which I received in a knitting swap. I'm pretty impressed with it, especially as it contains The Legend of Sleepy Hollow which means I'll be able to use this for my Classic Double challenge :)

So what have you got to showcase this week?

Showcase Sunday (3)

Showcase Sunday is a meme hosted by Vicky @ Books, Biscuits and Tea where you can showcase your newest books and book related swag for that week and share it with everyone.

This week I got in some preorders and a book that I ordered from the US. I love when orders finally come through :)

Blood of the Sorceress is the last book in Maggie Shayne's portal series. I really loved the first book and I've been saving the second until I had this. The trilogy tells the story of ancient Babylonian witches who have been reincarnated in our world and the rising of a dark force the world has never known.

Another preorder I am totally psyched to get reading is The Archived by Victoria Schwab. I have heard awesome pre-release reviews and the book itself is gorgeous. I can't wait to get reading and this is definitely going in my February TBR stack...if I don't get to it this month that is :)

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star is a book I heard about a while ago and then looked up again after signing up for the Classic Double Challenge. I managed to find a cheap new copy which has just arrived from the US, although I'm really peeved at that stock sticker on the spine as it won't come off. It sounds like a really fun read.

So what have you got to showcase this week?

Showcase Sunday (2)

Showcase Sunday is a meme hosted by Vicky @ Books, Biscuits and Tea where you can showcase your newest books and book related swag for that week and share it with everyone.

I didn't expect to get any new books this week, but I popped into The Works and couldn't resist their 2 for £3 sale! I also got a new yoga book :)

Yoga to the Rescue Ageless Beauty is the second book by Amy Luwis. I love her first book (Yoga to the Rescue) and this is really similar. The illustrations are of normal women, and the book not only covers various yoga poses with a ton of information but it includes various routines as well. The routines are based on need/mood so you have joy, serenity, rage-a-holic and even supergirl :)

The Fifth Victim was a last minute "what else to fill the offer" pick. I've been in the mood for some crime lately so a book about a serial killer who kills in sets of five before disappearing sounds really creepy. It even has a psychic so it's not too far from my usual paranormal picks.

John Green is one of those authors I've heard a lot of great things about but never read so when I saw Looking for Alaska in the sale section for 50p I had to pick up a copy. I don't read a lot of contemporary books but I'm interested to see why he is such a well loved author so I'm hoping to read this soon.

Night School is a book I remember seeing the cover for but couldn't remember much about. The blurb is really vague so I decided to risk it and after checking online it appears that this is a mystery set in a boarding school.

Insatiable sounds awesome. I've loved Meg Cabot's writing since I first read some of her negotiator books when I was about 13/14 so I'm excited to read this. It's a retelling of Dracula (yay for books that work for my Classic Doubles challenge!) focusing on Mina Harker and it sounds awesome.

Last but by no means least is The Day Watch. It's the second in the Night Watch trilogy (the first has been on my TBR forever) and so far the last of the three made into some pretty awesome movies. I love the movies so I keep meaning to read the books. Maybe getting this will be the push I need.

So what have you got to showcase this week?

Showcase Sunday (1)

Showcase Sunday is a meme hosted by Vicky @ Books, Biscuits and Tea where you can showcase your newest books and book related swag for that week and share it with everyone.

I've had an awesome book week as my post-Christmas orders finally arrived :) Here's a pic of all my new book babies:

As you can see I've already started Under the Never Sky and I'm enjoying it so far. I also got a copy of Through the Ever Night given how many good things I'd heard about the series. Breathe and Mystic City are both books I heard about from the Top 10 of 2012 event because of their gorgeous covers and they also sound great too. Plus I'm doing a dystopian challenge so these work perfectly.

Throne of Glass is one I've been putting off since I first heard about it, mostly because it sounds a lot like Poison Study. I saw it really cheap after Christmas and decided to give it a try. The Masque of the Red Death was a must buy for me as it's based on Poe's original story and it sounds really creepy :)

Wildefire is another book from the Top 10 of 2012, although everyone was talking about the second in the series and I wanted to start at the beginning. It looks like the author blends a lot of different mythologies so I'm interested to see how that works out. Last up is Renegade which was a recommendation from a Goodreads friend that I decided to pick up a copy of. It's another dystopian but this time set in an underwater city so I can't wait to see how that works out :)

So what have you got to showcase this week?