by Katie McGarry
Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth."
"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....
"I dare you..."
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....
Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.
But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all...
"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....
"I dare you..."
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....
Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.
But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all...
REVIEW:
Reading Katie McGarry's books have started giving me the feels that watching One Tree Hill did. Even stronger maybe.
What I love about them is that they show what true love actually means.(It is standard raising love really!) Love is about getting to know a person and not going by just first impressions. It is about finding both their admirable qualities and deepest secrets. It is about opening up to that person. It is about making the other person see what's good about them. It is about making them strong and feeling stronger in the process. Nothing sums love better than this quotes from When Harry Met Sally.
Okay, I think I got carried away a little.
Sorr~ay!
For some reason every person and scene in this book reminded me of a song and honestly naming those songs here can be a non spoilery way to review this book.
1) The beginning- Demons by Imagine Dragons
2) Beth- Heart Attack by Demi Lovato. My first impression of her in Pushing the Limits was wrong.
3) Ryan- The Man who can't be Moved by the Script and I won't give up by Jason Mraz. He was the most un-jockish jock slash Shakespeare. I wish I get to read his essay on George and Olivia because it seemed cool.
4) Scott Risk- Count on Me by Bruno Mars.
5) Isiah- Just the line " Where do broken hearts go?"
6) The end- Good Life by One Republic.
This book is as moving as the first one. I dare you to read Pushing the Limits because if you do THAT, you will do this voluntarily.
RATING: 4/5 stars 
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