Echo is his tutor and they form a grudging friendship, and then, more. Noah and Echo are thrown together by the school's new clinical social worker, whom they both see privately, when Noah needs help with calculus. Noah has earned a reputation as a 'bad boy' and decides to live up, or rather down, to what everyone expects of him. Echo is still trying to fit in with her old friends in the popular crowd, and doing whatever it takes to feel normal, even though she is dying inside. They have dealt with these events in different ways. It adds so much to the story when I can see how both characters internalize the same events.īoth Noah and Echo have had very traumatic events occur in their past. I love that kind of narrative! I love getting to know both main characters so well, knowing everything they are thinking and feeling. Pushing the Limits is told in alternating first-person point-of-view, with Noah and Echo as the narrators. She struck the perfect balance between these heavy issues and a sweet and tender love story. That is a lot for an author to cover in one book, but McGarry hit the nail on the head with this one. Pushing the Limits touched on so many important issues: death of immediate family members, divorce, remarriage (a somewhat scandalous one at that), bullying, friendship, therapy, mental health issues and the foster care system. I simply loved everything about it! Reading the summary, I was afraid that the book was going to be nothing more than the tried-and-true formula of good girl and loner guy falling in love-a formula which works well and I do enjoy reading-but it was a lot more than that. Pushing the Limits was one of my favorite reads of 2012. And Echo has toĪsk herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll riskįor the one guy who might teach her how to love again. The crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. Secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible.Yet Normal. But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in theīlack leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitudeĪnd surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible With jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with 'freaky' scars on One knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl So wrong for each other.and yet so right. That-did you? It was done to you?' No one ever asked that question. Hutchins? His dark brown eyes shifted to my covered arms.

I promise.' Noah tucked a curl behind my ear.

Pushing the limits series in order