From now on, I’ve decided to take part in Let­ter­box Love, a weekly meme to show­case your newest books set up by a group of UK blog­gers and hosted by Nar­ra­tively Speak­ing. I thought this seemed like a fan­tas­tic oppor­tu­nity to get to know some of my fel­low UK blog­gers a bit better.

There’s also Show­case Sun­day, hosted by Books, Bis­cuits and Tea and also Stack­ing the Shelves over at Tynga’s Reviews which I’ll doubt­less check out as well.

This week I’ve got some great books to share with you guys…

Prize Pack won from The Book Smugglers

I was so excited to win these two after read­ing a lot about N. K. Jemisin from the always awe­some Book Smug­glers. They have bril­liant taste in books and I’m always on the look out not only for excel­lent YA fan­tasy, but also mul­ti­cul­tural books. I’m in the mid­dle of read­ing the first of her other tril­ogy The Hun­dred Thou­sand King­doms at the moment and lov­ing it.

Cold Magic by Kate Elliott has been on my wish­list for over a year now and can­not wait to sink my teeth into this one.

Swapped

Another great week for swap­ping books! I finally got a copy of The Night Cir­cus by Erin Mor­gen­stern to read, though I’m still han­ker­ing after the book cover shown on the link! This one has got­ten a lot of glow­ing reviews and I gather it is very descrip­tive so I’m going to wait until I’m in the right mood before pick­ing this up.

So I love books about the Tudors and I sim­ply can­not wait to read VIII by Har­riet Cas­tor. It’s one I’ve had my eye on for a while now and though it hasn’t got­ten hun­dreds of reviews on Goodreads yet, the 43 rat­ings it has gen­er­ated have been over­whelm­ingly pos­i­tive. This is about Henry VIII when he was younger and I’m curi­ous to see how Cas­tor han­dles the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing a like­able pro­tag­o­nist who turns into the tyrant we all know from history.

Bought

I pre ordered The False Prince by Jen­nifer A. Nielsen the moment I first heard about it, months prior to its release. Unre­li­able nar­ra­tors, thieves and junior fan­tasy are like all my favourite things com­bined so I was incred­i­bly excited to see if this lived up to my expec­ta­tions. I’ll let you won­der on the answer to that ques­tion for now, but my review will be up later this week (I promise!)

You all don’t need me to tell you how awe­some sauce Pixar is do you?! (Have they ever released a bad film? Answer: No) But their art­work is sim­ply stun­ning. I col­lect Pixar Con­cept Art books and look what came to my door this week! The Art of Brave!!!! I had a quick flick through and got all flut­tery over the pretty pic­tures but I can’t look at it prop­erly until I’ve seen the film, obvi­ously. How­ever, rest assured I will be shar­ing some of the magic within with you guys in a few weeks time once the film has been released!

I also bought these Book­plate stick­ers from Water­stones, that you can put inside your books with your name on. I loved the illus­tra­tion design, but I can’t quite decide if I really want to start stick­ing stuff inside my pre­cious books lol!

What do you think?

As always, com­ment away and feel free to leave link backs to your own weekly haul!