Review: Pushing The Limits - Katie McGarry


 
Looking for an edgy teen fiction ? Something that does push the readers boundaries of normal teen fiction?
Review: Pushing the Limits - Book #1 Pushing the Limits - Katie McGarry - July 2012
Two teens from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love with the whole world against them ? Sounds familiar ? It has an almost Romeo and Juliet feel to it as we meet two teenagers Noah Hutchins and Echo Emerson, both have been delegated to go along to their guidance counsellor's new guinea pig programme, here they will be counselled in school by Miss Collins. Both have lost someone they cared for and now are struggling to move forward , for Echo her family has been a strong issue with an overbearing father, a brother who died in the Marines, a new stepmother who used to be her babysitter and of course the main reason she is in therapy - we learn her mother tried to kill her and Noah Hutchins - bouncing from Foster home to foster home, he lost his parents in a fire and now he has been separated from the two people he loves most in the world and left with only supervised visitations - his two younger brothers Tyler and Jacob. Now the pair have been spending lots of time together due to Miss Collins pairing them up for tutoring, though what could this duo have in common besides her as Noah is the resident bad boy and Echo- a former Miss Popular.  Pushing the Limits is all about that in seeing the limits that one person can go to save or care about the ones they love and that sometimes when the going gets too tough, you have to break down that barrier and push through as hard as you can. 
Pushing the Limits touches on quite a few edgy content topics like Death, Mental Illnesses , Violence, Foster Families etc . I love reading about this stuff and cannot wait for Book #2 Dare to You which focuses on Noah's Foster Sister Beth's story.
 
 
 
 

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  1. Glad you enjoyed it! I really liked it too, although I had a few issues with Noah constantly calling Echo "mine".

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