Her friends want the old, popular Echo back, not the moody, unhappy one that has to go to CPS therapy. It isn’t the scars that are embarrassing but what they represent and how they’ve caused people to interact with her differently.
Echo has numerous scars on her arms, so embarrassing that she wears long sleeves and gloves. She only knows that she is not to have contact with her mother. Something happened between Echo and her mother, something bad but Echo doesn’t remember. To do that he must prove to CPS that he is a fit person to care for his brothers.Įcho lost her beloved brother in Afghanistan. Noah’s entire goal is to get a job and his brothers back. His two brothers were moved to a different family and Noah had a hard time finding a decent home. When he saw his first foster father beating the father’s biological son, Noah stepped in to defend the child but because the altercation was physical, Noah was labeled a problem child in the system. Noah was only 15 at the time and with no family to care for them, the three were shuttled into the foster care system. Noah’s parents both died in a car accident leaving behind Noah and his two younger brothers. He really isn’t a bad boy but he’s generated a bad attitude and a certain disdain for authority. Noah because he is trying to win the right to have visits with his brothers who have been separated from him for two and a half years because “eople with my labels weren’t allowed to live with other minors” in the foster system and Echo because of a trauma so serious that she has lost a part of her memories. Noah and Echo meet in Child Protective Services mandated counseling. The story unfolds, narrated by both characters in alternating first person. She was too scared to pursue her dreams because they were wrapped up in fear. Echo had to resolve the issues of her past before she could look to the future.
They were on the cusp of their adulthood and for Noah, maybe already an adult based upon how life had formed for him. Even though Echo and Noah are seniors, the issues that they were dealing with were ones that I, many years passed, could identify with. This book began my hunt for more New Adult stories. My interest was piqued when I came across the cover and title of this book when adding to the new releases site. When I was at BEA this year, many of the conversations began with “what are you excited about” and to nearly every person I said “Pushing the Limits” by Katie McGarry.
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