Monday, 30 September 2013

£10 Co-Op Voucher

A very useful prize from a daily Co-Op competition - a £10 voucher! I have a shop just down the road from me so this will come in very handy!

Value: £10.00
2013 Total: £2179


Candyland Sour Snakes

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

Value: 65p
2013 Total: £2169


Sunday, 29 September 2013

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


Friday, 27 September 2013

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


Thursday, 26 September 2013

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).