Between fantasy and reality

Hi there! I saw a lot of my blogger and Goodreads friends doing the challenge this year so I decided to join for 2014. I have a lot of books I want and need to read and I just havent gotten around to it yet. There are a few levels of the challenge and while I am aiming for Adept ( 40+ books), I will start with Grand Master ( 31-40  books). I plan on reading and reviewing books from my TBR list on Goodreads , the more the better.   The Review pile reading challenge is hosted by  hosted by  Rachel @ Fiktshun  and  Reanna @ Phantasmic Reads ! You can go and join the fun here . The challenge starts January 1st 2014 and I cant wait. Cheers!

The Cheesecake Queen by Miranda P. Koerner Release Date: 11/21/13  Summary: Sugar Rule 1: Christmas is the perfect time for cheesecake. Sugar Rule 2: Men are as useful as burnt cookies. After losing her reporting job to layoffs at the local paper, Caeleah Turner’s pity party at the airport is interrupted by a woman claiming to know the location of the world’s best cheesecake. Intrigued, Caeleah trades plane tickets with the woman and finds herself in Chestnut, Colorado, a tiny town hiding a woman known as the Cheesecake Queen. The Cheesecake Queen not only bakes the best cheesecakes in the country, but her cheesecake is known to cure everything from infertility to baldness—one woman even loses 100 pounds on it! There is a thick batter of secrets behind The Cheesecake Queen and her two sisters, who operate all the bakeries in town. But as the mayor’s efforts to shut down the Sugar sisters before Christmas gear up, Caeleah finds herself wanting to sample his o...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This is my choice for this week The World Without a Future by Nazarea Andrews Expected publication: December 3rd 2013 by A&A Literary She was born the day the world ended… Nurrin has lived her entire life with zombies—trapped behind walls meant to keep them safe. She’s mostly happy there. But when a zombie horde breach the walls of her Haven, she has to trust her brother, Collin, and his best friend to keep her alive.  He just wants his past to die… Finn O’Malley has given up on voicing warnings that are ignored. No one cares that the zombies are changing. Now all that matters is keeping Collin and Nurrin safe from what’s outside the walls of a Haven. But when Nurrin’s best friend picks up a contact infection, he agrees to get the medicine needed to save his life. Forced together, relying on each other in a strange Haven,...

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren . This is what I got in the last week:                                                                             WON                                                  A welcome pack from Nazarea Andrews                                                                     FOR REVIEW Thanks to Strange chemistry, Lyla Payne and Magan Vernon                          ...

Drawn by Cecilia Gray Publication date: November 13th 2013 Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult Synopsis: Take a journey into the gritty world of political espionage through the eyes – and lies – of one extraordinary girl. A wholly original tale of friendship and betrayal from the author of The Jane Austen Academy series…. Sasha has a secret – that she can make you spill your secret with nothing more than a question. Her strange gift makes her a burden to her foster family and a total freak of nature. Not that Sasha cares. Why should she when no one cares about her? Then the CIA knocks on her door. They want to give Sasha a new identity and drop her into a foreign country to infiltrate a ring of zealous graffiti terrorists. They want to give Sasha something to care about. To survive a world where no one is who they seem, Sasha needs to make people trust her. But when that trust blossoms into love, Sasha is forced to decide between duty and friendship, between ...

Publication date: November 18th 2013 Genres: New Adult, Romance Synopsis: Hannah Sorrento never planned to be a band manager. She’s a princess. The toughest obstacle she’s had to face is finding shoes to match her outfit. Then her father disappears and she’s left with only the money in her purse and a contract for the management of hot, indie rock band, STORM. She plans to sell the management company, one or another, then head back to law school with her designer wardrobe and wait for this whole mess to blow over. But lead singer, Jack Colt, has other ideas and he’s messing with Hannah’s head. Not to mention her heart. With the help of crazy rock chick, Angie, Hannah sets the band on their first steps to the big time and learns that poor people can have a  lot of fun. But this isn’t some game she can escape from and soon her secrets get exposed. He’s arrogant and infuriating but he’s the one that’s there for Hannah when her world comes crashing...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This is my choice for this week White hot kiss (The Dark elements #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout Expected publication :   February 25th 2014 One kiss could be the last. Seventeen-year-old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses. Raised among the Wardens—a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe—Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon-worthy, incredibly gorgeous and completely off-limits Warden she's crushed on since forever. Then she meets Roth—a tattooed, sinfully hot demon who claims to know all her secrets. Layla knows she should stay away, but she's not sure she want...

Synopsis   She thought she stopped the evil. She thought she was safe. Everything she thought was wrong. Almost four months have passed since Evie Starling learned she was a Tracker and helped defeat a Daevos Clan that was taking others like her—but that wasn’t the end of the abductions. As an unknown evil emerges, Evie vows to help solve the mystery of the missing Trackers, regardless of the risk. With new powers she doesn’t understand and can’t control, she turns to Alex and Emil, her two soul mates, for help. But her feelings for them both are tearing her apart. She knows she has to decide between them; however, her memories are only making that choice more difficult. As the world around her is thrown into chaos, Evie is confronted with what could be a destiny-altering truth. Will she accept her history, her memories, and her role in this life, or choose to ignore the echoes of her past? Book Link: Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17450280-e...

Genre: Erotica/ Romantic Comedy Expected Release Date: November 20th 2013 GOODREADS BOOK LINK: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405653-just-a-step-away   Synopsis:  Lanie Wagner has it all—from her great apartment in the heart of Los Angeles, to her amazing career as the city’s most sought after wedding planner. Yes, ladies and gents, Lanie is riding high on life. But there's just one problem. When her cousin called her and asked Lanie to plan her wedding, she knew it was going to be a disaster. She hasn’t been back home in over five years, and her family is out of control crazy. All of them. With her cousin's wedding looming, Lanie has to make a pivotal decision. She needs to find a date; a boyfriend to be exact. She needs to find some poor bastard willing to pretend to be madly in love with her for an entire week. The only downside is Lanie is convinced that no one is pathetic enough to take her up on her offer. Lucas Sparks, aka Sparky, is the ep...

In My Mailbox is a weekly meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren . This is what I got in the last week:                                             WON Signed audibooks Sealed with a curse and A cusred embrace by Cecy Robson won from  Tantor Audio Sam Cruzs infallible guide to getting girls by Tellulah Darling won at Tellulah Darling blog  FOR REVIEW Which books did you get this week? Leave me a link to your blog in the comments.. Cheers!

Danica and Kaylie Snow are about to celebrate the biggest day of their lives—their double wedding—on an island in the Bahamas. But no wedding is complete without a little family drama. The two sisters aren’t ready to face the father they haven’t seen since he divorced their mother and moved away to marry his mistress, and live with Lacy, the half sister they’ve never met. While Danica has exchanged letters and phone calls with Lacy, Kaylie has fervently tried to pretend she doesn’t exist. Lacy is sweet, fun, and nearly a mirror image of Kaylie. To make matters worse, not only is Lacy looking forward to meeting her sisters, but she idolizes them, too. As the countdown to the wedding date ticks on, their parents are playing a devious game of revenge, and there’s a storm brewing over the island, threatening to cancel their perfect wedding. The sisters are about to find out if the bond of sisterhood really trumps all. Book Links: Goodreads: h ttps://www.goodreads.com/boo...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. This is my choice for this week: The Undead Pool (The Hollows #12) by Kim Harrison Expected publication  : February 25th 2014 Witch and day-walking demon Rachel Morgan has managed to save the demonic ever after from shrinking, but at a high cost. Now strange magic is attacking Cincinnati and the Hollows, causing spells to backfire or go horribly wrong, and the truce between the races, between Inderlander and human, is shattering. Rachel must stop the occurrences before the undead vampire masters who keep the rest of the undead under control are lost and it becomes all-out supernatural war. However, the only way to do so is through the ancient elven wild magic, which carries its own perils.

Summary: Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you’re only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And when you’ve just used your not-so-reliable powers to burglarize the booby-trapped office of a vampire mob boss. Yeah, that part sucks. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Cassandra Palmer, aka the Pythia, the freshly minted chief seer of the supernatural world. After all, Cassie still has to save a friend from a fate worse than death, deal with an increasingly possessive master vampire, and prevent a party of her own acolytes from unleashing a storm of fury upon the world. Totally just your average day at the office, right? My review Urban fantasy is one of my favorite genres and Cassie Palmer series is one of the best there is. At the end of the 5th book, I cried like a baby so it was great to see Cassie trying to find a way to fix things in Tempt th...