Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas

Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas

(After Eden, #2)
Release Date : June 5th 2014
Publisher : Bloomsbury Children's Books; 352 pages
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The boy Eden loves just saved her life. Now she must save his. To do so she must make a huge sacrifice. Eden can never see her friends or family again, as she travels a hundred years into the future. But the dangerous risk Ryan took to rescue Eden has been uncovered, and now Ryan faces an exile ...which will leave Eden separated from him - the one person she can't live without - and stuck in the future. She must fight to save both of them.  The mesmerising sequel to the author's wonderful debut, After Eden.

After Eden by Helen Douglas

After Eden by Helen Douglas
(After Eden, #1)
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Childrens; 288 pages
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Eden Anfield loves puzzles, so when mysterious new boy Ryan Westland shows up at her school she's hooked. On the face of it, he's a typical American teenager. So why doesn't he recognise pizza? And how come he hasn't heard of Hitler? What puzzles Eden the most, however, is the interest he's taking in her.

As Eden starts to fall in love with Ryan, she begins to unravel his secret. Her breakthrough comes one rainy afternoon when she stumbles across a book in Ryan's bedroom - a biography of her best friend - written over fifty years in the future. Confronting Ryan, she discovers that he is there with one unbelievably important purpose ... and she might just have destroyed his only chance of success.

2014 Reading Challenges

I'm going to attempt a few reading challenges in 2014 and this is where I'm going to keep track of everything. I've always done the goodreads challenge but I want to push myself even more this year.

I think the first challenge speaks for itself. It's to help me get through some of my pending reads on both Netgalley & Edelweiss. My goal is to finally reach my desired 80% on Netgalley and I'm determined to reach it in 2014.

The second challenge is to give me that extra shove. It's to try and have you outdo yourself from this year. It looks like I'll read 130 books in 2013 (though I have to see which ones were actually 100 pages or more - I'm guessing it's more like 115-120 books).

Are you doing any challenges? What are you participating in 2014?!