Review: Pushing the Limits (Pushing the Limits #1) by Katie McGarry
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Series: Pushing the Limits #1
Author: Katie McGarry
Published July 31st 2012 by Harlequin Teen
Goodreads Synopsis
"I won't tell anyone, Echo. I promise." Noah tucked a curl behind my ear. It had been so long since someone touched me like he did. Why did it have to be Noah Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms. "You didn't do that-did you? It was done to you?" No one ever asked that question. They stared. They whispered. They laughed. But they never asked.
So wrong for each other...and yet so right.
No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible. Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again...
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Review
Noah and Echo have gone to the same school for years, but they are in completely different circles. Echo used to be the queen of the school, popular, with a jock boyfriend, but overnight she's become a loner, covered in scars, and wanting nothing to do with her old life. This brings Noah into her world, and he is kind and understanding to her, especially as she can't really remember what happened to her. She is going through a lot at home, as her mother is no longer in her life, and her controlling dad has married her old babysitter, and she's now pregnant. Noah is fighting for his brothers, to get them out of the foster system following the death of his parents, and needs to prove himself worthy of it all. Together, they become stronger, but the world wants to keep them apart, no matter what. Will they be able to overcome the controlling powers in their lives, or will they push the limits too far?
This was a book I had seen again and again in the book blogging community, but I never got around to reading it until 2019. Echo and Noah were such broken and damaged characters, who I wanted to hug and protect throughout the entire book. They had the whole world thrown at them, and it was lot for them to take at such a young age. This book isn't a soft and fluffy contemporary read; no, it's gritty, and dark, and really makes you think as you go through it. It's gripping from the get go, and though you wouldn't expect to enjoy a book with this sort of content, I really did, and loved the way that Echo and Noah didn't rely on each other, per se, but bolstered the other and helped them achieve what they needed to. Definitely a book that sticks with you, and I'm looking forward to seeing more from them in the sequels.
Dates Read:
June 19-21, 2020
Rating
4 Stars
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