Review: Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
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…
REVIEW:
This book has sat on my shelf for over a year, actually the whole series has but I was waiting for the right moment and mood to dive and I was not disappointed. Emotional and haunting, Katie McGarry paints a dark picture of struggling to overcome when everything inside you wants to pull you under. I knew this was going to gut me when I started to tear up at Chapter 15. What can I say, kids just bring out a soft spot in me.
Echo and Noah were perfection together, it was the classic two broken people make a whole. They plot, they laugh, they study and they slowly share their secrets with each other. Both of them are far too young to be carrying around the burdens they do. Katie McGarry truly captures the clicks and drama of the high school atmosphere. As Echo tries to find her new normal and Noah isn’t even trying, I loved that they found solace in each other. They supported and kept each other afloat and I was swooning and sighing with contentment.
Echo’s family was the absolute worst, like every time they appeared I would curse, filled with rage. Noah’s brothers burrowed their way into my heart as only two small children can do. The secondary characters really all added another layer of depth to this story and I can’t wait for them all to get their own stories.
I really think this was a coming of age book, where the Echo and Noah both learned lessons of love and sacrifice. What friendships to trust, who to trust, and what to do when everything goes to h*ll. The plot had me hooked and I couldn’t put it down. A contemporary masterpiece at its core.
LINKS:
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