#UKSummerBookSwap

As a big fan of Hayley's blog over at Water Painted Dreams, when she made a post filled with details of a book swap she was planning, I knew I definitely wanted to be part of it. All I had to do was send her an email with my most and least favourite book genre as well as my contact details. One of the main things I liked about this book swap is that who I sent my book off to wasn't the person who was sending theirs to me, and I liked the feeling of being involved in a big long chain of books!

Charlene from tartanmouth was the blogger that I was paired with, and the genres she gave as her favourites were Children's Literature, Young Adult, Thrillers, Modern Fiction and Dystopia. As Young Adult is my favourite genre, I thought that it would be really easy to find a book for Charlene. It turned out, however, that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I am one of those people that if a book is hyped up, I've probably read it. Fearing Charlene was a similar type of reader to me, all the YA books I could think of I thought she would've read. Luckily for me, there's a bookshop in Oxford that sells quite unique books that I hadn't heard of, and I picked up Broken Soup by Jenny Valentine.

The initial reason I picked up this book was because of the cover as I thought it was really cool. Then once looking inside the front cover, I saw that Jenny Valentine also wrote Finding Violet Park which I haven't personally read, but I've heard great things about so I decided to get it. Charlene has told me that she has finished the book and loved it which is great!

As for receiving a book, I actually received two from Claire over at Agent Smyth. As she's said in her #UKSummerBookSwap post, what I had put as my favourite genre, Claire had put as her least which is why she proceeded to send me two books as she was unsure if I would've read one of them. The two books she sent me were Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan and A Place Called Here by Cecelia Ahern. 

                              

Now, I had previously tried to read Will Grayson, Will Grayson, but I didn't know anything about the story, and I didn't know there were two Will Grayson's and when they met I got utterly confused. This time round I have started reading it with my boyfriend, and we're reading alternate chapters to each other to stop confusion and it's going well so far, but we haven't finished it yet. I haven't started A Place Called Here yet but it looks really interesting and a close friend of mine loves Cecelia Ahern and says I have to read it!

Have you read any of these books? Have you been involved in a book swap?             Let me know below!