Title: Dare
You To (Pushing The Limits #2)
Author : Katie McGarry
Published : May
28th, 2013
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My Rating: 5
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Summary:
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....
My Thoughts:
I was really excited and hesitant to read Katie
McGarry 's second novel. Pushing The
Limits was one of my favorite reads last year and I was hoping that I would
love Dare You To just as much and I definitely did! I was a little worried in
the beginning because I didn't want this
book to be a recreation of Pushing The Limits with different characters and I
am happy to say that it is completely different but, I still felt everything I
felt with the first book but, Dare Me To was different and in some ways better
then the first book.
Dare Me To follows Beth and her love interest
Ryan's story. We got to learn a bit about Beth in the first book so I felt like
I knew what I was getting myself into when I started reading this one. Beth's
character was completely heartbreaking, she is broken and doesn't trust anyone
because everyone she counted on has left and the one person who didn't leave
her mother was not fit to be there for her in any way. Ryan on is star of the
baseball team and loves to win, when he and
his friends are hanging out and he is dared to get Beth's number Ryan
never knew that he would see her again but, as a twist of fate has it Beth moves to Ryan's town. Ryan loves baseball and
it is his dream to go pro after he graduates high school and his dad is there
to push his own dreams on his son each step of the way. Ryan seems like the
kind of guy that has the perfect life from the outside looking in but, that is not how it really is and him and Beth
need each other even more then either of them ever knew. After an incident with
Beth and her mom's abusive boyfriend,
her Dad's brother Scott convinces Beth
to move in with him and his wife. Beth is one of those characters that
she feels angry at the world and all I wanted to do was show her that not
everyone leaves and that it is ok to trust.
I loved how Dare Me To did not feel in any way
like Pushing The Limits, the way McGarry approached the characters of Beth and
Ryan I really felt like I got to know them even better then I did Noah and Echo
which made me that much more invested in the story although I didn't get as
emotional in this one as I did the first
book I loved it just as much. McGarry has a wonderful way of bringing
each and every relationship she writes to life right off the page. I never
wanted the book to end, I just wanted to
keep reading their story forever.
Overall, Dare Me To was everything that I hoped
it would be and so much more, I assure you that if you are a fan of Pushing The
Limits that you will love this one just as much. If you haven't read the first
book I still definitely recommend picking this one up, you don't have to have
read the first book to read this one, it is a whole new story and if you are a contemporary fan you will love
it!
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Yes! YES! I loved this book!! Glad to see you did too. :)
ReplyDeleteI liked how the books were separate, too, that neither resembled the other. I actually think I liked Dare You To even more than Pushing the Limits. And I can't wait for Isaiah's story! :D
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this more than PTL too-I thought the drama was better balanced so it grated on me less than the melodrama in PTL.
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