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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
This felt like an actual book and not just a silly romance. I was very invested in both characters stories. I loved this very much.
However I found this book on a list of possessive, jealous male character romances and I wouldn't put this book on that list.
However I found this book on a list of possessive, jealous male character romances and I wouldn't put this book on that list.
This seriously may be my favorite book of 2012... I'm in love!
Something bad happened to Echo that left her arms terribly scarred... only she can't remember what that something is. She knows her bipolar mom was involved, but no one will tell her what exactly happened. (Apparently her brain won't be able to handle it?) Something bad happened to Noah and he wishes he could forget what it is. His parents were killed in a house fire leaving him and his brothers in separate foster care. Both Echo and Noah end up seeing a school social worker who gives Echo a job tutoring Noah... and then BAM! you have these two poeple damaged in completely different ways come together and it's perfection!!
I can't even describe to you how much I loved Echo and Noah as a couple. Noah was so delicious and sweet it was almost too much. But their coupling wasn't even the best part. The best part was the complexity of the story. It wasn't just a romance or an amnesia mystery or a death book. It was life!! Life in alternating viewpoints! (<---which I LOVE)
Echo and Noah were so real to me, but so were the other characters in the book. I feel like I got to know about 10 people really well throughout this book and that's rare in YA. Usually I feel lucky if I get the main character(s).
Seriously if you like YA contemporary read this book!!! And apparantly there's a spin-off book about Beth coming out :) Can't wait! Katie McGarry is definitely up there on my list with Courtney Summers after this amazing book!
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Something bad happened to Echo that left her arms terribly scarred... only she can't remember what that something is. She knows her bipolar mom was involved, but no one will tell her what exactly happened. (Apparently her brain won't be able to handle it?) Something bad happened to Noah and he wishes he could forget what it is. His parents were killed in a house fire leaving him and his brothers in separate foster care. Both Echo and Noah end up seeing a school social worker who gives Echo a job tutoring Noah... and then BAM! you have these two poeple damaged in completely different ways come together and it's perfection!!
I can't even describe to you how much I loved Echo and Noah as a couple. Noah was so delicious and sweet it was almost too much. But their coupling wasn't even the best part. The best part was the complexity of the story. It wasn't just a romance or an amnesia mystery or a death book. It was life!! Life in alternating viewpoints! (<---which I LOVE)
Echo and Noah were so real to me, but so were the other characters in the book. I feel like I got to know about 10 people really well throughout this book and that's rare in YA. Usually I feel lucky if I get the main character(s).
Seriously if you like YA contemporary read this book!!! And apparantly there's a spin-off book about Beth coming out :) Can't wait! Katie McGarry is definitely up there on my list with Courtney Summers after this amazing book!
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fast-paced
Breath taking and tragic and happy and sad and wholesome. What a great story of well pushing the limits. :) MUST READ!
I encountered multiple rhapsodic five star reviews of Pushing the Limits and I fell victim to the hype. It sounded fairly standard based on the synopsis, but I was convinced there had to be more to it, surely that many people couldn't go bananas for something unless it was extra special?
Well...
I had several Mugatu moments whilst reading this book (you know that bit in Zoolander, when Will Ferrell shrieks, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!") as I had to be missing something. This book was absolutely fine, but in the grand scheme of contemporary YA it fell far short of Stephanie Perkins and John Green.
Really, this book deserves at least three stars, as it was well written and mildly entertaining, but I had to knock one star off for my disappointment. No limits were pushed here.
Well...
I had several Mugatu moments whilst reading this book (you know that bit in Zoolander, when Will Ferrell shrieks, "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!") as I had to be missing something. This book was absolutely fine, but in the grand scheme of contemporary YA it fell far short of Stephanie Perkins and John Green.
Really, this book deserves at least three stars, as it was well written and mildly entertaining, but I had to knock one star off for my disappointment. No limits were pushed here.
This was a reread for me and it held up! The synopsis makes it sound very cliché, a typical bad boy meets good girl story, however these two characters are very refreshing because they felt realistic. They're complex and both have serious real world problems that they're shown to be working through. There is some heavy mental health related stuff in here though, so maybe avoid if that's not for you.
It's told from dual perspective, which I thought worked well, I enjoyed both of their voices. Firstly you have Echo, who is shown to be in therapy to recover from a traumatic incident in her past that she doesn't remember. She's also dealing with the loss of her brother, and her father's new relationship, and ultimately, just wants to feel normal again. She felt very well-rounded and had multiple interests outside of the relationship, I wish she'd have found some new friends though because hers sounded completely shallow.
Noah is a foster child who has been seperated from his two brothers and will do anything to be reunited with them due to concerns over their safety. I found it refreshing to have a character fulfill the "bad boy" archetype but who actually seems like a good person as there's so much crazy alpha-male behaviour shown in romance novels these days. He's been in some trouble, breaks a few rules and sleeps around, but he never speaks badly of any of the previous women he's slept with, he stops when Echo asks him to, and doesn't go all psycho-possessive when there's another man talking to her. Though he did still have some typical teenage-boy thoughts, on the whole he came across as respectful and I really appreciated that.
I loved their relationship because it felt like they were helping each other, not just using the relationship to forget their problems. There was also a slow build up to it, with a lot of flirtation and banter between the two. That first kiss felt a long time coming so I was jubilant when it did!
On the whole, I love that this novel defies a lot of the clichés that we see so often in the Young Adult / New Adult romance genres. Although, I don't think I'm going to read the others in the series, because I don't feel like it was necessary to give all of the supporting characters their own story.
It's told from dual perspective, which I thought worked well, I enjoyed both of their voices. Firstly you have Echo, who is shown to be in therapy to recover from a traumatic incident in her past that she doesn't remember. She's also dealing with the loss of her brother, and her father's new relationship, and ultimately, just wants to feel normal again. She felt very well-rounded and had multiple interests outside of the relationship, I wish she'd have found some new friends though because hers sounded completely shallow.
Noah is a foster child who has been seperated from his two brothers and will do anything to be reunited with them due to concerns over their safety. I found it refreshing to have a character fulfill the "bad boy" archetype but who actually seems like a good person as there's so much crazy alpha-male behaviour shown in romance novels these days. He's been in some trouble, breaks a few rules and sleeps around, but he never speaks badly of any of the previous women he's slept with, he stops when Echo asks him to, and doesn't go all psycho-possessive when there's another man talking to her. Though he did still have some typical teenage-boy thoughts, on the whole he came across as respectful and I really appreciated that.
I loved their relationship because it felt like they were helping each other, not just using the relationship to forget their problems. There was also a slow build up to it, with a lot of flirtation and banter between the two. That first kiss felt a long time coming so I was jubilant when it did!
On the whole, I love that this novel defies a lot of the clichés that we see so often in the Young Adult / New Adult romance genres. Although, I don't think I'm going to read the others in the series, because I don't feel like it was necessary to give all of the supporting characters their own story.
"The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.”
I'll round this up to 2.5 stars.
I think I judged this book too quickly. The first 30 pages entranced me and I was really liking everything... I think I should've waited a little.
After those 30 pages, everything went sour for me. I struggled SO MUCH to finish this, but I don't do DNF.
Echo, the main character, started out great for me. She seemed cool and I though I would end up liking her... But again, that died after the first 30 pages. She claimed not to, but ALL she cared about was popularity and the way everyone looked at her. She wants everything to be as it was before her "accident", and that includes returning with her (jerk) ex boyfriend and being friends with a girl (a supposed best friend) who didn't give a shit about her after the accident. And what was the deal with "I want everything back to how it was. I want normal"?! You can't date Noah because he isn't your idea of normal? That was SO dumb and stupid and annoying.
As for Noah, I liked him more than Echo. He is just an okay character. Though it pissed me off how he treated Echo, like she could break any minute and had the need to protect her. I felt he treated her like a little girl that couldn't do anything by herself. Idiot.
The romance was horrible. When they first talk, Noah is immediately into her. He can't stop thinking about her, her nymph, her siren, her everything bla bla bla. For me it was a case of insta love. This happens in most of YA books, so I tried to ignore it, but their relationship felt like a joke to me. Yeah we're flirting. Now let's date. Oh! how about a relationship? Sorry, now I have this stupid and unimportant reason to ditch you so you can be better off without me, let's break. Oh, but I love you so much that I couldn't resist three weeks without you, so let's date again! Ugh.
ECHO'S FRIENDS. Oh my god, how can you really think those bitches are your friends? All they were after was popularity! They forced Echo to get back with her ex so they could have normality again! Are you serious?! Grace, Lila, Natalie... So much shit together.
And the "angst" in this book! Was I supposed to be moved? To cry or something? Because I didn't. Was I supposed to felt bad for Echo? Pity for Noah? I'm sorry but the only thing I felt was the need to get done with this book asap.
So what did I liked? Those 30 pages. Isaiah (a little bit). Echo's dad. And the fact that even though I was disliking this book a lot, I couldn't put it down.
I don't know if I'll read the next ones. I've NO interest in Beth's story, but I would like to know Isaiah's.
Me encantó este libro, la trama es muy distinta a los libros que e leído, pero eso no lo hace malo, todo lo contrario, lo hace perfecto.
Por un lado tenemos a Echo, la chica que solía ser popular y que ahora es solitaria y nunca muestra sus brazos. Y por el otro lado esta Noah, el chico que se muestra rudo frente a los demás pero que sin duda a pasado por muchas cosas en su vida, al igual que Echo.
Sus historias son únicas y eso hace que la trama sea muy peculiar, con el paso de las páginas se habla más sobre las cosas que esconden cada uno y luego se desencadena una historia de amor entre los dos, que a pesar de ser tan distintos, nada puede entreponerse entre ellos.
Por un lado tenemos a Echo, la chica que solía ser popular y que ahora es solitaria y nunca muestra sus brazos. Y por el otro lado esta Noah, el chico que se muestra rudo frente a los demás pero que sin duda a pasado por muchas cosas en su vida, al igual que Echo.
Sus historias son únicas y eso hace que la trama sea muy peculiar, con el paso de las páginas se habla más sobre las cosas que esconden cada uno y luego se desencadena una historia de amor entre los dos, que a pesar de ser tan distintos, nada puede entreponerse entre ellos.
This book was just so so good! It was mysterious especially with Echos memory loss but also held a perfect amount of romance, not to cheesy just wonderful. I flew throughout this book and the romance between Noah and Echo was just fab! :D can you tell i really liked this book?
Good story. Didn't give me the FEELS that I heard so much about but I liked it.