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I've only got one word to describe this book.... Intense! Wow, it was a serious emotional rollercoaster.
This was just so.... Gaah!! Terrifying! Exceptional! Brilliant! Sweet! Intriguing! Suspensful! Shall I go on? I could continue the rest of the day! It was romantic with an ever-present mystery to keep the reader hooked at all times, and as if that wasn't enough, it was filled with insightful and deep thoughts and feelings. I have to say, one of my favorites was this one:
"Touching Echo felt like home"
It's simple and short, but oh so loaded with emotion. It was when this quote appeared before me, that I knew that I was hopelessly, deeply inlove with this book and its charaters, and that there was no going back.
"Touching Echo felt like home"
It's simple and short, but oh so loaded with emotion. It was when this quote appeared before me, that I knew that I was hopelessly, deeply inlove with this book and its charaters, and that there was no going back.
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
* 5 Stars!!!*
This novel was one of the best contemporary novels I have ever read! This book made me laugh and cry so many times. It constantly broke my heart and sowed it back together again.
LIKE THIS BOOK IS RIDICULOUSLY GOOD!
The storyline of the both main characters were both mysterious and interesting. Echo was a character that I had never read before and I thoroughly enjoyed her story. As for Noah, he is definitely a new book boyfriend! Noah doesn't just have a tough exterior, he is a big softy that every girls needs. His story was the one that touched me the most. I was constantly crying when anything to do with his brothers came into play. Tears would come streaming down my face like water falls! Especially the last couple of chapters! The same goes for Echo too!
By the end of this book my eyes were red raw and my heart was soooooo full of happiness!
The only complaint that I have for this book is that the ending was very sudden and it left me wanting more! However, Katie McGarry has decided to release a second book about the story of Echo and Noah. I'M SO EXCITED AND CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON IT!
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!(Tissues recommended)
This book will be forever one of my favorite contemporaries! I'm hoping that will be the same with the rest of her series. I can't wait to get stuck into them :)
This novel was one of the best contemporary novels I have ever read! This book made me laugh and cry so many times. It constantly broke my heart and sowed it back together again.
LIKE THIS BOOK IS RIDICULOUSLY GOOD!
The storyline of the both main characters were both mysterious and interesting. Echo was a character that I had never read before and I thoroughly enjoyed her story. As for Noah, he is definitely a new book boyfriend! Noah doesn't just have a tough exterior, he is a big softy that every girls needs. His story was the one that touched me the most. I was constantly crying when anything to do with his brothers came into play. Tears would come streaming down my face like water falls! Especially the last couple of chapters! The same goes for Echo too!
By the end of this book my eyes were red raw and my heart was soooooo full of happiness!
The only complaint that I have for this book is that the ending was very sudden and it left me wanting more! However, Katie McGarry has decided to release a second book about the story of Echo and Noah. I'M SO EXCITED AND CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY HANDS ON IT!
I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!(Tissues recommended)
This book will be forever one of my favorite contemporaries! I'm hoping that will be the same with the rest of her series. I can't wait to get stuck into them :)
This book was simply amazing. I'm so happy I bought a signed copy when I went to BookCon!
I loved Noah. He was super hot and I loved how the author carefully described his emotions and actions and his reasoning behind everything. I loved every layer there was to him! He looks and acts like this rough guy when he really has a good heart. He was abused by different foster parents that he's lived with, he's trying to get his brothers back, his parents died and he blames himself because he wasn't there.
I felt like his struggles were more raw than Echo's. His love for his brothers was also adorable. It kills him that he can't see them more than once a month.
Echo is a cool name and I loved her red hair and her spunk. I was able to easily relate to her because she's always trying to please the people around her. What teenager isn't trying to do the same? Her struggles with losing her memory of how she almost died, the loss of her brother and her mother, and feeling like she is alone somehow worked together. It feels like a lot of tragedy to roll into one character but it all fits together perfectly.
The writing was fantastic. I easily felt each character's emotions. I really enjoyed reading from both Noah and Echo's perspectives. It gave readers a clear understanding of what each character felt and how they were dealing with the things that had happened to them.
The moments between them were unbelievably steamy. The connection these characters have is unique and works in a way that you wouldn't think. Noah and Echo were perfect together.
This book had the perfect mix of humor and struggles with past tragedies. The book delves deep into the lives of these characters. The plot was a roller coaster of emotions and struggles. I'm in love with this author's writing and stories. I will be reading the rest of the books in this series, and soon!
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-Ashley
I loved Noah. He was super hot and I loved how the author carefully described his emotions and actions and his reasoning behind everything. I loved every layer there was to him! He looks and acts like this rough guy when he really has a good heart. He was abused by different foster parents that he's lived with, he's trying to get his brothers back, his parents died
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because his own brother set the fireI felt like his struggles were more raw than Echo's. His love for his brothers was also adorable. It kills him that he can't see them more than once a month.
Echo is a cool name and I loved her red hair and her spunk. I was able to easily relate to her because she's always trying to please the people around her. What teenager isn't trying to do the same? Her struggles with losing her memory of how she almost died, the loss of her brother and her mother, and feeling like she is alone somehow worked together. It feels like a lot of tragedy to roll into one character but it all fits together perfectly.
The writing was fantastic. I easily felt each character's emotions. I really enjoyed reading from both Noah and Echo's perspectives. It gave readers a clear understanding of what each character felt and how they were dealing with the things that had happened to them.
The moments between them were unbelievably steamy. The connection these characters have is unique and works in a way that you wouldn't think. Noah and Echo were perfect together.
This book had the perfect mix of humor and struggles with past tragedies. The book delves deep into the lives of these characters. The plot was a roller coaster of emotions and struggles. I'm in love with this author's writing and stories. I will be reading the rest of the books in this series, and soon!
www.ashleyearley.com
www.ashleyearleybooks.tumblr.com
www.ashleyearleywrites.blogspot.com
-Ashley
**Originally posted here: http://rebecca-books.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/pushing-limits-katie-mcgarry.html **
I requested this book on Netgalley, not really intending to read it any time soon. It sounded interesting but I wasn't hooked - I wanted to read the books I am hooked on first.
So, why did I read this book sooner?
The reviews. The magnitude of them that every blogger has posted, sharing their mostly positive reviews. I was simply intrigued to see what all the fuss was about. I entered now expecting much and came out pleasantly surprised.
Synopsis: Something happens a few years ago that changed Echo's live forever. She turned from one of the most popular girls in school with an equally popular jock boyfriend to the 'freak' with scars on her arms? Has she been self-harming, what's wrong with her? But Echo doesn't know as she can't remember the whole truth of that night, the night where she lost her mother and gained these scars. She just wants normal now.
Noah's attitude precedes him, being known for one-night-stands, drinking and drugs, when he enters Echo's life, they should completely opposite. However, both are surprisingly understanding to one another and soon a friendship forms. But with all their issues, can it go further?
Review: I have something to admit. On starting this book, I totally thought this was a Fifty Shades of Grey for teenagers. I know, I know, first impressions, don't judge a book by its cover and all that. But I was totally expecting attraction, a false relationship and some sex (for the record, there is none). Why? Pushing the Limits. The title merely. A 'bad' boy and a good girl. Secrets and their lives being not that fantastic. I was thinking an updated Forever by Judy Blume (from what I can remember of that book *shudders*).
But I was pleasantly surprised. This is not a book filled with a false and forced feeling relationship. Yes, there is sexual attraction but what teenager HASN'T experienced that by the age of 18?!
This was a nice little book to sit down either in the sun on the beach or on a rainy afternoon and just read. It is a pretty intense read so I think if you get into it, it would be hard to stop reading.
Ah, Noah. Just Noah. I found I felt more for him throughout than Echo, not entirely sure why. I think it's because although he has this bad boy attitude on the surface, as we look deeper into his personality he's actually a total softy. It's touching to see how much he cares for both Echo and his brothers and how much he would just go with what Echo wanted. FINALLY there is evidence that not all teenage boys are sex-crazy!
I also liked Echo for the fact she felt very realistic to me, even though her past seemed a little 'out there' to me at times. She was also a completely different type of protagonist and I liked that element of her. The other characters were completely different to one another, which is refreshing to see, and added some laughter and entertainment to a story which I like may have been TOO intense otherwise. My only problem with the minor characters was that they seemed way too cliche for me. This was a book about breaking barriers socially (like the popular girl and the bad stoner boy for instance...) but the other characters could have easily been put into categories. Which kind of defeats the object, if you think about it. Anyway, favourites combos come with Beth/Noah/Isaish and Lila/Echo. Lila, you are my best friend now.
I liked the writing the most I think. Okay, so the writing is hardly Jane Austen or Charles Dickens but I still liked it! McGarry shows their emotions easily without being too dramatic. I also liked the fact that not everything was revealed at the beginning, and for Echo's story, you find out what happened with her and Noah. It made it more interesting to read I think and made me form a judgement before finding out how messed up both their lives are. My only concern really was some of the events seemed too far-fetched or melodramatic for me, but this didn't affect my reading.
Despite my expectations being a little judgemental from the title, I did enjoy this novel and was pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't say it's the best book I've read, but it's a pretty damn good shot at a great contemporary from Katie McGarry. I had few problems with this book and loved the characters she presented, especially Noah. Although when he calls Echo 'baby' on some occasions, I sounded so creepy. Like 'Ah, get away from me you creep', creepy. Meh, just me? Okay then...
I give this a 4 out of 5
Thank you to the publisher for letting me view the e-galley via Netgalley
I requested this book on Netgalley, not really intending to read it any time soon. It sounded interesting but I wasn't hooked - I wanted to read the books I am hooked on first.
So, why did I read this book sooner?
The reviews. The magnitude of them that every blogger has posted, sharing their mostly positive reviews. I was simply intrigued to see what all the fuss was about. I entered now expecting much and came out pleasantly surprised.
Synopsis: Something happens a few years ago that changed Echo's live forever. She turned from one of the most popular girls in school with an equally popular jock boyfriend to the 'freak' with scars on her arms? Has she been self-harming, what's wrong with her? But Echo doesn't know as she can't remember the whole truth of that night, the night where she lost her mother and gained these scars. She just wants normal now.
Noah's attitude precedes him, being known for one-night-stands, drinking and drugs, when he enters Echo's life, they should completely opposite. However, both are surprisingly understanding to one another and soon a friendship forms. But with all their issues, can it go further?
Review: I have something to admit. On starting this book, I totally thought this was a Fifty Shades of Grey for teenagers. I know, I know, first impressions, don't judge a book by its cover and all that. But I was totally expecting attraction, a false relationship and some sex (for the record, there is none). Why? Pushing the Limits. The title merely. A 'bad' boy and a good girl. Secrets and their lives being not that fantastic. I was thinking an updated Forever by Judy Blume (from what I can remember of that book *shudders*).
But I was pleasantly surprised. This is not a book filled with a false and forced feeling relationship. Yes, there is sexual attraction but what teenager HASN'T experienced that by the age of 18?!
This was a nice little book to sit down either in the sun on the beach or on a rainy afternoon and just read. It is a pretty intense read so I think if you get into it, it would be hard to stop reading.
Ah, Noah. Just Noah. I found I felt more for him throughout than Echo, not entirely sure why. I think it's because although he has this bad boy attitude on the surface, as we look deeper into his personality he's actually a total softy. It's touching to see how much he cares for both Echo and his brothers and how much he would just go with what Echo wanted. FINALLY there is evidence that not all teenage boys are sex-crazy!
I also liked Echo for the fact she felt very realistic to me, even though her past seemed a little 'out there' to me at times. She was also a completely different type of protagonist and I liked that element of her. The other characters were completely different to one another, which is refreshing to see, and added some laughter and entertainment to a story which I like may have been TOO intense otherwise. My only problem with the minor characters was that they seemed way too cliche for me. This was a book about breaking barriers socially (like the popular girl and the bad stoner boy for instance...) but the other characters could have easily been put into categories. Which kind of defeats the object, if you think about it. Anyway, favourites combos come with Beth/Noah/Isaish and Lila/Echo. Lila, you are my best friend now.
I liked the writing the most I think. Okay, so the writing is hardly Jane Austen or Charles Dickens but I still liked it! McGarry shows their emotions easily without being too dramatic. I also liked the fact that not everything was revealed at the beginning, and for Echo's story, you find out what happened with her and Noah. It made it more interesting to read I think and made me form a judgement before finding out how messed up both their lives are. My only concern really was some of the events seemed too far-fetched or melodramatic for me, but this didn't affect my reading.
Despite my expectations being a little judgemental from the title, I did enjoy this novel and was pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't say it's the best book I've read, but it's a pretty damn good shot at a great contemporary from Katie McGarry. I had few problems with this book and loved the characters she presented, especially Noah. Although when he calls Echo 'baby' on some occasions, I sounded so creepy. Like 'Ah, get away from me you creep', creepy. Meh, just me? Okay then...
I give this a 4 out of 5
Thank you to the publisher for letting me view the e-galley via Netgalley
Echo and Noah are a great couple, a readable couple, a couple that you want to route for, but the writing tripped me up. There is a chronic problem with adult women writing adolescent male POV and this book falls right into all those traps. I couldn't suspend my disbelief to think that Noah would be obsessed with what Echo was wearing, or keep calling her "his siren" in his mind. He is 18, that isn't going to happen. As for not pushing her to go all the way with him, I don't know that I believe that either. He's just not that guy. I liked Echo and Noah and thought they were well developed characters, but I don't understand why romance novels always have to fall into such formulaic writing traps, maybe some people really like that, I don't.
Loved it but the reason i gave it 4 out of 5 ending was kind of boring.
What can I say when I decided to read this book I wasn't sure if I was going to like it or not but it surprised me I love the characters especially Noah and his brothers and I felt sorry for echo that girl had been through a lot.my favourite scene was when Noah saw Jacbo get his award I couldn't stop crying at that bit