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Pushing The Limits

Pushing The Limits, August 2012
by Katie McGarry

Harlequin Teen
384 pages
ISBN: 0373210493
EAN: 9780373210497
Kindle: B00835RMNM
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Can wounded teens discover their limitless potential?"

Fresh Fiction Review

Pushing The Limits
Katie McGarry

Reviewed by Andrea Duncan
Posted August 1, 2012

Young Adult Contemporary

Echo Emerson was the perfect girl with the perfect boyfriend and popular friends. Then the "event" happened and when she finally returned to school she'd retreated into the non- sociable shell of the perfectly obedient teen. The one thing she wanted most was the one thing she'd lost forever. Her old normal. Noah Hutchins is the black leather jacket, girl using faster kid that everyone avoids. He's got a bad attitude and worse language. He lost his parents in a fire and his brothers to the "system". No one is in his corner and he'll even have the one thing he craves the most. His old normal. When Echo and Noah are paired up by their school therapist their differences collide as forcefully as their resentful words. When they accept that working within the system is the best way to get what they want they also discover a new understanding of each other. That understanding blooms into a partnership that could bloom into a new normal if they could learn to trust someone. Perhaps each other? Ms. McGarry took me on an emotional journey of grief and guilt, loss and love. Pushing The Limits pulled me immediately into the lives of Echo and Noah. Unable to put it down until I finished reading at 4:00 Am I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I smiled. I laughed. I cried. I ugly cried. I loved every passionately planned word of this page turner. Content warning: This book includes cussing, drug and alcohol use, and discussions about teen sex. Each topic is handled well as these high school students learn to make the right choices.

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SUMMARY

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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