Info: Harlequin Teen, copyright 2015, 423 pages
For new high school graduate Echo Emerson, a summer road trip out west with her boyfriend means getting away and forgetting what makes her so . . . different. It means seeing cool sights while selling her art at galleries along the way. And most of all, it means almost three months alone with Noah Hutchins, the hot, smart, soul-battered guy who’s never judged her. Echo and Noah share everything—except the one thing Echo’s just not ready for.
But when the reason behind Echo’s constant nightmares comes back into her life, she has to make some tough decisions about what she really wants—even as foster kid Noah’s search for his last remaining relatives forces them both to confront some serious truths about life, love, and themselves.
Now, with one week left before college orientation, jobs and real life, Echo must decide if Noah's more than the bad-boy fling everyone warned her he'd be. And the last leg of an amazing road trip will turn . . . seriously epic. -Goodreads description
The Rundown
I love love love Katie McGarry! Every time she replies to me on Twitter I geek out and am so beyond not cool. I even chickened out of going to her table at ILF this year because I was afraid of being the a hot mess of a fan girl like "I do a happy dance whenever I see you have a new book coming out!" Like I said, weird librarian struggles.
Pushing the Limits is one of my all time favorite contemporary YA reads! It doesn't matter how many times I've read it or listened to it (or prayed for a movie!) I never fail to fall head over heels for Noah. If you haven't read it, read it now. Read it like yesterday. Just read it! I promise if a good romance is your thing this book goes above and beyond!
Now that I've gotten that out of my system, to the review!
Breaking the Rules is falls in between Pushing the Limits (the first time we meet Noah & Echo) and Dare You To (Beth & Ryan's story). The story follows Noah & Echo through their first summer together after graduation. They're camping and art gallery hopping from Kentucky to Colorado as Echo tries to sell her paintings and make a name for herself in the art world before she starts college. Noah, the awesome and devoted boyfriend that he is, comes along on the journey in search of answers after learning that he has living relatives he never knew about after a fire orphaned he and his brothers.
Can their love survive as life gets more real when they make the transition out of high school and into college? The summer will tell!
McGarry has this incredible way of writing that has you feeling all of the heartache, the laughs, and everything in between right along with her characters. I feel like the overall theme of this story for Echo and Noah is making peace with the past and having a hope for the future. If you've read Pushing the Limits, the wounds both struggled with then are caught in a tug of war between healing and reopening. It makes for a great feeling that real, honest love can overcome life's damages. The end had me in happy tears that Echo and Noah have finally found a home, not in a walled structure, but in each other.
Rating: 5 Stars! You totally must read this book!
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