A fast paced great read, with great character and world building and excellent read. Can't wait for more
4 stars

I love wrong side of the tracks/right side of the tracks stories, so I was excited for this one. While I didn’t enjoy it as much as the first book in this series, I did love Ryan and Beth and their chemistry. Plus I have a major thing for size discrepancy and an unlikeable heroine and this one delivered!

I really enjoyed taking a journey through Beths perspective, she was one of my favourite characters in ‘Pushing the limits’. The character development between the two books is amazing and I loved how the author took her from a stereotype and gave her some depth. Her relationship with Ryan was adorable and you could literally feel her softening.
Plus bonus Echo and Noah content 😉

Overall, I love the series as a whole, 4 star read.

So much love for this book! I have to admit that Beth got annoying at times, but I've seen lots of people put on blinders for the people they love. And may I just that Ryan was... mmmmmmm.

I kind of forgot how utterly romantic and addictive this series is. Dare You To is just what everyone who is in a reading slump needs...

Utter awesomeness.

So originally I thought Beth and Isaiah were bound to end up together-as they were so close on Pushing the Limits-but I am so glad Katie McGarry can see the future and knew Beth was destined for someone else. Someone who might just push her limits and help her heal and grow.

Beth is a hard edged goth girl who was born and raised on the wrong side of the tracks. She spends her time getting high, and preventing her mother from getting killed by psycho boyfriends. After all, it was Beth's fault that her mother's life fell apart, and so she must fix the crazy loon's life. Adult's problems should never fall on a teenager's shoulders. Suddenly and without warning Beth gets plucked from her old life into a life of comfort, curfews, and golden boys like Ryan Stone.

Beth is shadows, Ryan is sunlight. Ryan does have a mischievous side however, he has a tendency to take lots of dares, and one of those dares happens to put Beth right in his cross hairs. While this might sound like the plot to every other teenage movie of the 90s, I can promise you it is so much more than that and there is very little deceiving going on from Ryan's end. He comes clean pretty quickly, and then it is up to him to built up the trust. While Ryan doesn't necessarily start on the right foot, you can tell he has a good heart and once he falls he is not one to give up.

Beth on the other hand just wants to run away from her problems. She does not want to give anyone a chance, she just wants to disappear with her mother and get far away from her mother's boyfriends and troubles. She wants a fresh start, but can't quite see that what she has been looking for her whole life was dropped right on her lap.

Anyways, read it! It is soo good!! You won't regret it for a second.

I didn't think for a second that I would love this book as much as Pushing the Limits! This book was absolutely amazing! After reading Pushing the Limits and loving it I couldn't wait to read Beth's story! The plot of this book was so sad! It had so much in it as it was written from two point of views so it had two stories going on! The plot was similar to Pushing the Limits but in a way it was different as well! The characters were amazing! Beth and Ryan were the main characters and they were both amazing! Beth had been through a lot before the events of this book took place and we learn more about what happened to her as the book progresses! I connected with Beth instantly! I honestly thought that I wasn't going to like her because of her attitude and they way she acted but she changed drastically through this book and her changes made her a better person and also a stronger person! I thought that Ryan was going to be portrayed to be the cocky, player of the school but I am so glad that he wasn't! I loved him as he was so respectful of women and you could tell that he really cared about Beth! There was a love triangle in this book between, Beth, Ryan and Isaiah, who appeared in the first book in the series! I honestly couldn't pick between Ryan and Isaiah! Ryan refused to let Beth go but Isaiah was there for her when she needed him the most so the decision was so hard! I honestly can't pick between Pushing the Limits and Dare You To as well as they were both equally amazing books and part of a series that has quickly become one of my favourites! The cover is also absolutely stunning! Big thank you to Harlequin UK and Netgalley for an ARC of Dare You To!

I did not finsih reading this book. Too much drama. I will not be rating or reviewing this title. Thank you.

I could not finish this one. Characters were annoying, storytelling weak and I could not get into this book.

Sometimes a girl needs to disappear into a beautiful YA novel for a day or so, just to forget about everything else that is happening. And if that YA novel happens to be written by Katie McGarry, then a girl is bound to be in for a good time. I loved dipping back into her writing and falling in love with her characters again. Don't ask me why it took so many years for me to get onto reading this book, just be as grateful as I am that I finally did. Thanks to Harlequin and Netgalley for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Dare You To is the second novel in the Pushing the Limits series, which started with the eponymous novel. I adored Pushing the Limits and although Isaiah and Beth remained side-characters for me, I definitely was curious to read the second novel. Exactly why it took me almost five years is something of a mystery, although I did sidetrack into Walk the Edge a year ago. However, I am almost glad that I waited so long. In my late teens I went through a major love affair with YA fiction. After spending years claiming I was more of a "serious literature" fan, I fell in love hard with the genre thanks to a few specific and amazing reads. One of these was McGarry's Pushing the Limits, but there was also Beautiful Disaster and Unspoken. What I didn't expect from these books but got a truckload of was feelings, of giddiness, of heart ache, of joy, and of despair. I loved getting dragged along in these stories of people my age, of their adventures or lack thereof. Perhaps I also loved it so much because I had denied myself these types of books for so long. Now, a few years later, I have read a lot more books, a lot more YA as well, and my literary taste has developed a lot. I still read YA and now I often do so to go back to the simple yet complicated feelings of being a teenager. And nowhere do I find those feelings more than with Katie McGarry.

What I really enjoyed about Dare You To is how McGarry took certain stereotypes and worked with them. The goth chick is caring and vulnerable, the jock is conscientious and honest, the bad parents may occasionally appreciate their children. On the one hand Dare You To is filled with YA Romance cliches and a lot of the twists and turns can be seen from a mile away. Perhaps had I read this in 2013, the plot might have surprised me more, but the predictability of the plot is, with these kinds of novels, part of the charm. It's like sinking into a Hallmark movie, which perhaps won't surprise you with its story, but will with its emotions. Because Dare You To is full of emotions: anger, fear, love, lust, hate, and everything in between. You get strangely attached to McGarry's characters because she allows you directly into their heart. Although not everything is revealed at the beginning, you get a very strong sense of who these people are, what they might think in any given situation. And she excels at writing friendships and relationships, the kind that are so sweet and aspirational it is almost sickening, but just rough enough to leave you wanting more.

I still adore McGarry's writing. Her characters are often deeply conflicted, with serious trauma in their past and present. It's not easy to write such characters convincingly and gently, yet McGarry manages this fine balance. She allows her characters to be foolishly stubborn, incredibly rude and achingly vulnerable; her characters actually read like teenagers. In her novels, McGarry consistently tackles incredibly difficult themes and this is part of the reason why I enjoy her writing. Fiction is meant to give not only an outlet, it is also supposed to be a mirror. I have always thought YA the perfect genre for exploring the difficult questions of life because teenagers and young adults need to read about, think about and talk about them. McGarry treats topics like self-harming, drug abuse, emotional abuse, domestic violence etc. with the seriousness that they deserve, although she also makes them serve her plot. They are not casually thrown into the novel, but rather have a genuine impact on her characters. I enjoy reading novels such as Dare You To because I think they can be great conversation starters for younger readers. For that, I will always appreciate Katie McGarry.

I really enjoyed Dare You To and raced through it. Although I read McGarry differently now than I did before, I loved returning to her writing and the characters she creates. Actually, I might go and revisit Pushing the Limits now... I'd recommend this to fans of YA Romance and New Adult fiction.

As a parent, Beth's story as well as Ryan's, broke my heart. I was a teen once (yeah, a looong time ago but still) and I remember how difficult is was - trying to figure out who you are and to define your place in the world. I'm watching my own children experiencing it. That neither Beth nor Ryan had the support behind them to make these decisions and help the transition to adulthood - yeah, heartbreaking. Things should have been looking up for Beth when her uncle took custody of her but she felt the weight of responsibility for her addict of a mother - something no child should ever have to endure. On top of that, she'd been removed from her normal and Beth has learned, the hard way, to never depend on anyone.

Enter Ryan. The perfect jock boy with the perfect life. He offers Beth a hand - okay, so it started as a dare - but Beth knows the score and that boys like him don't fall for girls like her. But Ryan's life isn't as perfect as it looks from the outside. His brother left and his parents barely speak. And his father has Ryan's life planned for him - nevermind it might not be what Ryan wants.

Watching as these two learn to trust and depend on each other was touching. Ryan had to work hard at chipping away Beth's wall. They both grew emotionally and figured out a few things about themselves in the process.

One trope I'm not fond of in YA is bad/neglectful/absentee parents but McGarry does it well, making the story so realistic and riveting. I felt for Beth and Ryan - understood where they were both coming from, and I wanted to hug them both as well as applaud their decisions and growth.

McGarry also built a great supporting cast and I enjoyed getting to see Noah and Echo again. I'm also eager to see some of the cast get their own story. I don't have the next in the series hiding, unfortunately, but I will be continuing this series soon. It's one I know my library carries. :)

Since receiving this book, my interests have changed therefore I will not be reading or reviewing this title. Thank you.