Author: Katie McGarry
Series: Pushing the Limits #2
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
Published: July 31, 2012
Pages: 456, Hardcover
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....
-Goodreads
Actually I was a lot more interested in Ryan's story than Beth's. (that sorta disappointed me) The story was really good though. The drama is very good and you won't get enough of Ryan and Beth's love story and ridiculousness. The emotions are raw and truly is intense. The things that Beth go through are truly hardcore and she is incredibly strong yet she doesn't know when to ask for help.
Beth is actually a blue-eyed blond who used to love bows and wore dresses, but now she has black hair, a messed-up mom, an uncle and aunt, and a big attitude. She is truly a bad ass (excuse my french). >o< Her attitude and wit is something I couldn't get enough of. She does tend to get into a lot of drama though. Like look at her last name, Risk, it explains so much. In the beginning, when she moves to the new town, she is tough, mean and harsh to everyone she meets/talks to. Eventually, we start to see the softer side of her and the coldness begins to melt.
Ryan is a famous jock, a lover of dares, and wants more than to be just a jock. His father wants him to be the perfect son since he believes the other one was a bust. His ex girlfriend is… being a pain in the arse (again excuse the french, I don't usually use that language, it's the only way to describe it). Ryan hides behind a facade of the perfect son (sorta) but he knows that it just isn't him. From what I see, when he realizes what he actually wants to do is because he finally let go of that facade.
Those two brought out the things in each other that the other suppressed or hid from the world. Beth and the little girl that died (a metaphor) a decade ago. Ryan and his secrets hidden from his friends and "perfect" family. Both are very different yet both just have a chemistry that works. They accept each other for the flaws that others won't or can't get past. Both have secrets yet they can work it. It is a gorgeous story with creative writing and baseball (P.S. I don't know the rules to baseball so I was lost: sorta)
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