Candyland Sour Snakes

My second win from Candyland's sweet giveaway - a pack of sour snakes!

Value: 65p
2013 Total: £2169

The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden

My first win from the mag dailies - a copy of 'The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden' by Jessica Sorensen. This has had some fab reviews so I'm excited to start reading it :)

Value: £7.99
2013 Total: £2168.35

The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden Review
Ho and hum. I really hated this at first. The writing is seriously, seriously atrocious. I don't think it ever saw the inside of an editors office. But the thing is, I am an absolute sucker for a love story. And once this got going it was a very cute love story. I actually think I would have preferred it without all the torture, torture dramarama because so much of that had me rolling my eyes and laughing at loud (I think I was supposed to be 'moved'. Oops.) The dialogue is clunky in places, nobody talks like that in real life. A lot of the minor characters are kind of like bad caricatures (Daisy, I'm looking at you). Also Callie wrapped her legs round his waist EVERY time they kissed, who does that?! (No one, is the answer.)
Still. I did kind of like it by the time it finished. It helps to skim read so you don't notice the bad grammar as much. I might even try and read the next one!

Pouch of Echo Falls Wine

When I had the WEM for this I was expecting a small pouch of wine, but this is huge! It's 1.5ml which is the equivalent of 2 bottles of wine, but much lighter with less packaging. It doesn't look quite as classy to carry about though haha! ;)

Value:  £9.99
2013 Total: £2160.36

Bodyshop Hand Cream

Vouchercodes.co.uk were giving out vouchers for a free hand cream from Body Shop - my mum loves rose scented stuff so I picked this up for her. I've had a sneaky sniff and it smells gorgeous!

Value: £5.00
2013 Total: £2150.37

Candyland Refresher Gums

Candyland Refresher Gums Review

Candyland are a new (I think) sweet company, and they've been doing several giveaways on Facebook recently. I won a pack of Refresher Gums and have to say they are really yummy! They're juicy and full of flavour, and kind of taste like a mixture of fruit pastilles and wine gums. Yum!

Value: 65p
2013 Total: £2145.37

Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

This is another freebie courtesy of topcashback - they were offering 100% cashback up to £5 on book purchases from Amazon, so I used the opportunity to buy Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver. I got the money back a few days later! This is book 2 of the Delirium trilogy - I won book 1 awhile back and loved it, so I'm super excited to start reading this!

Value: £3.86
2013 Total: £2144.72

You can find my review for Panemonium on GoodReads (it contains spoilers so didn't want to post it here).

Bottle of FruitBroo

FruitBroo Review

I have been so excited about FruitBroo ever since I discovered it via a competition - it's a fruit concentrate that goes in hot drinks, the bottles have such a funky design and the flavours all look delicious! They were giving away thousands on Facebook and I didn't win a single one and I was so upset - then two weeks later they were giving away one bottle on twitter and I managed to win that instead!

The bottle is a lot smaller than I imagined but it says it makes 15 cups so it's pretty good value for the price. I received 'Apple, Ginger & Spice' flavour which is really warming in the autumn and winter months - quite festive too! The only gripe I have with it is that I felt the flavour wasn't quite strong enough - I'll probably have to use an extra spoonful of syrup next time to see if that helps. That being said I would still quite happily buy FruitBroo in the future - it makes a great alternative to other winter drinks, and it adds some much needed variety into this market.

Value: £2.50
2013 Total: £2140.86