*Review* Dare You To - Katie McGarry

Dare You To - Katie McGarry

Series : Yes (#2 Pushing The Limits)

Released : 7th June 2013

Publisher: Mira Ink

Format : Paperback

Source : Publisher (Thank you) 

Buy : Amazon (UK/USA)/Book Depository

Overall rating

 .................................... The Blurb  ....................................

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....

 .................................... My Thoughts   ....................................

In Short

- Beth and Ryan are both deep characters who are well developed.

- I love that it's written in chapters from both the characters point of views.

- I enjoyed getting to know both Beth and Ryan and about their life's. Both are which are very different but both complicated and with their struggles. 

- Throughout the book there are many quotes, I definitely recommend checking them out on goodreads!

In Long

Dare You To was a book I was really excited about and couldn't wait to start. After reading Pushing the Limits and falling in love with everything about the book I had really high expectations when I started Dare You To, I knew Katie wouldn't let me down!

From the first page you are thrown into the lives of Beth and Ryan. Their lives are very different yet similar, they both have a lot going on with their families and both are finding things hard to deal with. The pace of the book starts as it means to go on, just like Pushing the Limits, it’s a roller coaster. I wasn’t able to put the book down and whenever I had to I counted down until I could pick it up again!

I love how Katie writes a chapter from Ryan’s and then Beth’s point of view, it makes both their voices very strong and powerful from the beginning. This is the main reason I loved Pushing the Limits so much, because the characters were so real and had so much character to them. Katie goes into a lot of detail about Beth and Ryan’s life, both the past and present, throughout the book meaning as a reader I am constantly learning more about them which in turn makes my relationship with them stronger.

There are many other characters in the book, all of them are developed well and as much as they need to be. Katie doesn't waste time developing a character too much which doesn’t need to be and i definitely see this as a positive. I often find I lose interest in the books which try to develop every single character more than needs be.

Katie is a true genius, there are so many quotes I could pull from this book, so many things which made me really stop and think, think about my own life as well as the characters life’s. I just wanted to share one of my favourite quotes from the book - “That must be love: when everything else in the world could implode and you wouldn't care as long as you had that one person standing beside you.” I think that sums up perfectly when i say it makes you stop and think!

Final Thoughts

Although I wasn’t as emotionally moved by Dare You To as I was Pushing the Limits I definitely enjoyed them both the same. I just can’t wait for more books by Katie, she is definitely one of my favourite authors and I just can’t see her ever disappointing me. She is able to create the most intriguing and real characters along with a gripping story line. I am awaiting Crash Into You eagerly.