Why I read it: I picked this one up from NetGalley. I loved Pushing the Limits last year and was so looking forward to where this author would take Beth… and Isaiah. I had read the first chapter in the back of Pushing the Limits so I had a fair idea that Isaiah wasn’t the hero. He’s the hero in the next book. Cannot Wait.What it’s about (from Goodreads): “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….
What worked for me (and what didn’t): I loved this. On Goodreads, it says the book is just over 300 pages but on my reader it was showing up at just over 600. Who knows why. But regardless of the actual length, the book was a pleasure to read. I really like Ms. McGarry’s writing style. I like the alternating POV chapters, from both Beth’s and then Ryan’s perspectives. The present tense fit the immediacy of the book too.
