Pushing the
Limits
By: Katie McGarry
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Pages: 392
Published: 2012
Read: June
5 out of 5
I
continually pushed this book to the
back of my reading list. I was intrigued by it, but as a Young Adult Librarian
I was nervous about the graphic romance I would find in a book meant for
teens. This was not a book I envisioned
myself discussing with teens because of my own recommendation and/or just by being
on the teen library shelf. However, there came a point when I couldn’t ignore it
and eventually the book was handed to me by a teen who, with a sly smile told
me, “It wasn’t THAT bad”. Well, I must
say – McGarry wrote a romantic teen story that was intense, but showed that it
isn’t all about sex. In fact, sex doesn’t happen in the book!! It wasn’t the
most impressively written novel, but the characters and their stories will
definitely draw the reader in. (I almost cried at one point). I would recommend
this book to any high schooler that enjoys romantic reads. As a parent and a Young
Adult Librarian, I wish the cover wasn’t quite so erotic – It would be a lot
easier to hand to teens! As an adult reader, I would probably rate it 4 stars
because of the writing quality, but if I read it when I was a teen myself I
would have LOVED it!
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