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.