Dare You To
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- £1.99
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Publisher Description
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… Beth Risk has spent her whole life hiding the truth about her family, and never letting anyone get too close. Suddenly sent to live with uncle she barely knows, she’s struggling to start afresh in a new town and at a new school that doesn’t get her. At all.
Ryan Stone is the school’s gorgeous golden boy—with secrets he can’t tell anyone. As Ryan and Beth dare to let each other in, they’re treading on dangerous ground – and the consequences could change their lives forever.
Praise for Bestselling Phenomenon Katie McGarry
"The love story of the year" – Teen Now
"A real page-turner" - Mizz
The Pushing the Limits Series
1. Pushing the Limits
2. Dare You To
3. Crash Into You
4. Take Me On – coming 27th May 2014
About the author
KATIE MCGARRY was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, and reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan. Katie would love to hear from her readers. Contact her via her website, katielmcgarry.com, follow her on Twitter @KatieMcGarry or become a fan on Facebook and Goodreads.
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Tattooed, pierced "skater girl" Beth and high school baseball star Ryan narrate alternating chapters of this coming-of-age love story that begins with a dare and escalates into a gritty and erotic trust-building exercise. The staid suburbs of Louisville, Ky., and the city's perilous underbelly provide divergent backdrops to the story's emotional and physical dangers. Raised on opposite sides of the tracks, both teens contend with selfish, manipulative parents who use their children to satisfy their own desires; both also have mentors and family members offering guidance and support. While threats to undermine the couple's growing affection come in multiple forms (Ryan's appearance-obsessed community, Beth's compulsive efforts to rescue her drug-addicted mother) McGarry (Pushing the Limits) captures their greatest obstacle: the aching vulnerability underlying Beth's tough exterior: "Fairy-tales happen, just not to me. Time to tell the prince he rescued the wrong girl." Sex, drugs, profanity, and violence, as well as subplots about loved ones who escaped town for emotional survival, heighten the dramatic tension but don't disguise the wholesome, girl-next-door quality of this well-paced, satisfying romance. Ages 14 up.
