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Pushing the Limits
by Katie McGarry
4.5 stars. Oh my God, the feels. I spent at least 10% of this book with tears streaming down my face because it just gave me so many freaking sibling feels.
I picked this up because the good folk at Penguin Teen Australia spruiked it as one of their favourite underrated series. From memory, they billed it as new adult, and I guess it's kind of on the cusp. I'd tend to classify a book as new adult if it's set after high school. This is set in their senior year of high school, but they're both dealing with so much real life shit that it's pretty heavy going for a YA audience.
Basically, it's the story of a girl who's covered in scars and doesn't remember how she got them who falls in love with a boy who's in foster care following the death of his parents. Her older brother died in Afghanistan, he just wants to get custody of his younger brothers so that they can be a family again. She wants to know what happened to her and why there's a restraining order against her mother, he's living in a basement and lugging around a major secret. When the school therapist/social worker gives her a job tutoring him, they decide to team up to get hold of their therapy files and find out the information they need once and for all.
Both Echo and Noah have a tendency to see situations and individuals - especially adults - in black and white. Over the course of the book, they come to realise that what they see as cut and dried is anything but. Real world situations and a lot of feels.
I picked this up because the good folk at Penguin Teen Australia spruiked it as one of their favourite underrated series. From memory, they billed it as new adult, and I guess it's kind of on the cusp. I'd tend to classify a book as new adult if it's set after high school. This is set in their senior year of high school, but they're both dealing with so much real life shit that it's pretty heavy going for a YA audience.
Basically, it's the story of a girl who's covered in scars and doesn't remember how she got them who falls in love with a boy who's in foster care following the death of his parents. Her older brother died in Afghanistan, he just wants to get custody of his younger brothers so that they can be a family again. She wants to know what happened to her and why there's a restraining order against her mother, he's living in a basement and lugging around a major secret. When the school therapist/social worker gives her a job tutoring him, they decide to team up to get hold of their therapy files and find out the information they need once and for all.
Both Echo and Noah have a tendency to see situations and individuals - especially adults - in black and white. Over the course of the book, they come to realise that what they see as cut and dried is anything but. Real world situations and a lot of feels.