Dare You To
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- $22.99
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Publisher Description
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail. And who knows where they'd send seventeen–year–old Beth. So she protects her mum at all costs – until the day her uncle swoops in, and Beth finds herself starting over at a school where no one understands her. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her...but does.
Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular jock with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including 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.
Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image is risking everything for the girl he loves. And the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all…
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Beth and Ryan don’t make an obvious couple. She’s a rebel with serious family issues sent to live with her uncle. He’s the star pitcher for the local small-town baseball team whose family is being torn apart by their attraction. A real cut above the current crop of New Adult novels, Dare You To blends teenage sexual tension with real-life issues in a way that’s fresh and highly entertaining.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
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.
