[Reveiw] Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry

Pushing the Limits
Katie McGarry
July 31, 2012
Harlequin Teen


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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. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. 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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I really really liked Pushing the Limits.  I cried then I smiled and then I was smiling through my tears as I listened to this book.  It was so good that I would come home from work ready for more so I would pick up where the audio book left and read it as well.  I devoured this book and had it finished in a matter of days.

 

Pushing the Limits is about a troubled girl named Echo and a self-proclaimed bad boy named Noah.  The story is about two people who have been dealt some real crummy hands and learning that is okay to move on and let go of the past.  Noah’s parents died in a house leaving him and his two little brothers to foster care.  Noah doesn’t see the good side of foster only the bad and so vows when he turns eighteen he will get custody of his little brothers, so they never have to go through what he went through.  Echo’s brother died in Afghanistan and her mother did something so terrible to Echo that she can’t even remember.  In this story about pain and loss these two teens are able to come together and learn to forgive and let go so they can heal together.

 

I must say this story was powerful and so moving.  I know I have said it before but there is something so magical about seeing two people find redemption through love.  I felt like I knew Echo and Noah by the end of the story and I was routing for their happy ending.  There was one scene I don’t want to give away too much but it involved Noah growing up.  I balled like a baby right there with Noah.  I was at work listening to the book and I know my coworkers had to be like what is wrong with this girl.  To me that is sign of an amazing book when your emotions you feel for the characters as a reader leave the book world and invade your life.  For me, Pushing the Limits will be a book I carry around with me in my thoughts for a long time to come.  Read or listen to Pushing the Limits you will not be disappointed.  I give this book four very solid laser pistols.