HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO?
All Meg has ever wanted is to get away. Away from high school. Away from her backwater town. Away from her parents who s... read full description
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Feb 27, 2011
This was my first time reading Jennifer Echols, I’d seen her book around, but for some reason I never had the initiative to pick on up. Then I saw the cover and synopsis for Going Too Far and I just had to have it. I think originally I’d saw the title as Boy In Blue or something along those lines, but after reading the novel I think that the title, Going Too Far, fits it perfectly.
I was expecting to like this novel, I figured it would be good, what I hadn’t expected was how much I wa More...
I was expecting to like this novel, I figured it would be good, what I hadn’t expected was how much I wa More...
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Nov 14, 2010
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This book is clearly a romance. The whole story is about these two different people with their own individual baggage who come together and fall in love. As their relationship develops, you feel like you are on rollercoaster ride -- crazy highs and lows. Their relationship is very charged and, at times, explosive. The sexual tension between them is there from the very beginning and practically on every page there after. These are two people who are very physically attracted to each other bu
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Dec 15, 2011
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Does anyone remember when my avi looked like this
That is called The Storyteller. It is a fountain that is in the heart of Five Points South in Birmingham.
This story tried to KILL IT!! Ugz!! ok... so, it wasn't the main focus but they talk about the fountain alot at the end of the book and keep referring to it as the DEVIL FOUNTAIN. Dear BOB! I wanted to scream. Only ignorants call it the Devil Fountain. Bahs. It's a statue of a ram man reading stories More...
That is called The Storyteller. It is a fountain that is in the heart of Five Points South in Birmingham.
This story tried to KILL IT!! Ugz!! ok... so, it wasn't the main focus but they talk about the fountain alot at the end of the book and keep referring to it as the DEVIL FOUNTAIN. Dear BOB! I wanted to scream. Only ignorants call it the Devil Fountain. Bahs. It's a statue of a ram man reading stories More...
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Mar 15, 2009
Alea
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This book was HOT! The chemistry and banter between Meg and John (Officer After) could keep me reading for probably a 1,000 pages. It was an absolute pleasure to read I couldn't get enough of it.
Echols writing style is just perfect to me, it's humorous and detailed and random, everything I love. She created a very likable character in Meg, someone who intentionally creates a somewhat shocking appearance (blue hair) and attitude to protect herself but little by little we learn more ab More...
Echols writing style is just perfect to me, it's humorous and detailed and random, everything I love. She created a very likable character in Meg, someone who intentionally creates a somewhat shocking appearance (blue hair) and attitude to protect herself but little by little we learn more ab More...
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Mar 24, 2009
Shannon
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Meg's a wild, rebellious girl who has panic attacks at being confined by as much as a seat belt. Her mother still cries over her and her father has washed his hands of her and her (currently) blue hair. She has just a few months left of high school to go and then she can escape the small town and move to the city to go to uni. And the one thing she's looking forward to before that can happen is the March Break trip to Mexico.
Which is ruined by one night's stupid decision. Along with More...
Which is ruined by one night's stupid decision. Along with More...
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Jan 25, 2011
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So here is what I thought of this book.. Short and Sweet
This was a sweet romantic read. It had a mixture of romance. mystery, teen angst, and some suspense. I enjoyed all the characters. The chemistry between Meg and John was so sweet. I love the the banter between them and how he was the shy one and she the one who said and did any and everything. There was one particular part int the book I loved that was so Meg.
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Nov 05, 2009
Katie(babs)
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This coming of age novel really hits on a great deal of issues and after you finish reading Meg’s journey and why she acts the way she does, you will have a big smile on your face. Meg may act like a rebel, but she is still very much a little girl scared and alone, not sure where she’s going or what her plans are. She has dreams and thinks she knows what they are, but all it takes is one person to show her that sometimes a person’s future can be found right in their backyard and with those they
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Mar 08, 2009
Adele
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I was overjoyed to get this in the mail yesterday, OVAH-JOYED. Thank you so much to Jenn for organising it's journey across the ocean to this uber-grateful Aussie. Now Jenn's act of kindness has nothing to do with the review I am about to give because as I stated in my review of The Boys Next Door, I consider Jenn to be the drug of choice in YA-verse. I was already biased.
And she didn't disappoint. I wasn't sure upon reading the first chapter, I was wary of Meg. I wasn't sure that I More...
And she didn't disappoint. I wasn't sure upon reading the first chapter, I was wary of Meg. I wasn't sure that I More...
Dec 03, 2011
Nomes
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Snark, sexual tension, brilliant dialogue...
Cop John After and the blue-haired-girl-felon.
Definitely a guilty pleasure :)
Cop John After and the blue-haired-girl-felon.
Definitely a guilty pleasure :)
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Nov 21, 2011
nina
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Suatu perpaduan yang unik antara masalah khas cewek kota kecil yang kepengen meninggalkan kotanya, dan berubah pikiran ketika dia ketemu sama cowok.
Meg dibesarkan di sebuah kota kecil di Alabama. Dia bisa dikategorikan sebagai cewek berandalan sejati, dan Meg tidak mau diatur. Bahkan orang tuanya sudah menyerah dengannya.
John memutuskan tetap tinggal dan menjadi polisi. Suatu kejadian di masa lalu membuatnya terobsesi dan memilih tetap terkurung di Birmingham--sesuatu yan More...
Meg dibesarkan di sebuah kota kecil di Alabama. Dia bisa dikategorikan sebagai cewek berandalan sejati, dan Meg tidak mau diatur. Bahkan orang tuanya sudah menyerah dengannya.
John memutuskan tetap tinggal dan menjadi polisi. Suatu kejadian di masa lalu membuatnya terobsesi dan memilih tetap terkurung di Birmingham--sesuatu yan More...
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Oct 02, 2011
Stephanie
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Going Too Far really took me by surprise. I expected it to be one of the usual YA teen romances, a bit poorly written and cliché, but it certainly wasn't. There is so much more to this book than I'd expected and it really blew me away.
I really enjoyed Echols writing - It was enjoyable and more complex than I thought it'd be. The characters were really well developed and had great, vivid personalities - Echols really made all of them come to life. The characters were definitely individual, b More...
I really enjoyed Echols writing - It was enjoyable and more complex than I thought it'd be. The characters were really well developed and had great, vivid personalities - Echols really made all of them come to life. The characters were definitely individual, b More...
Apr 26, 2011
Michelle
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Let's start with the classic bad girl meets good boy story and then turn it on its head with characters who totally rock and are so much more than they seem.
Aaaannndddd BEGIN!
On June 7th (graduation night), Meg is getting out of the small Alabama town she was born and raised in with plans to never, ever come back. She only has a couple of months before graduation in which she plans to get into as much trouble as possible without getting caught. That is until she gets caug More...
Aaaannndddd BEGIN!
On June 7th (graduation night), Meg is getting out of the small Alabama town she was born and raised in with plans to never, ever come back. She only has a couple of months before graduation in which she plans to get into as much trouble as possible without getting caught. That is until she gets caug More...
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Aug 11, 2011
Violet
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Rating: 4.5 rounded to 5
Going too far is such a sweet book. On the surface it’s a love story but that’s not all it is.
Meg is a 17 year old girl with blue hair and an attitude that has put her in trouble many times. John is a cop. Because of an incident at the unsafe town bridge, Meg and her friends are arrested and she has to spend a week patrolling with John as a substitute to being put in jail.
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Going too far is such a sweet book. On the surface it’s a love story but that’s not all it is.
Meg is a 17 year old girl with blue hair and an attitude that has put her in trouble many times. John is a cop. Because of an incident at the unsafe town bridge, Meg and her friends are arrested and she has to spend a week patrolling with John as a substitute to being put in jail.
The week they spend together is an eye-opener for both John and M More...
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Aug 04, 2011
Amy
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Meg and Johnafter from Going Too Far are now one of my top 10 favorite literary couples. The chemistry between these two outwardly different people was so evident in the pages written by Echols. She navigated their relationship from the beginning of the book as John being the authority and Meg the criminal to them finding friendship through common ground and eventually love so well. I found myself laughing out loud at some of the crazy things that came out of Meg's mouth and the reaction it wou
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Nov 29, 2011
Michelle
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Meg is drunk and playing around on a train bridge with her friends, when the cops catch them. They are arrested and sentenced to ride along for a week with either the fire department, the ambulance squad or the arresting cop. Meg hopes to get the ambulance squad because she is friends with several of the EMT's, but instead she has to ride along with the cop. What she doesn't realize is that the cop is not much older than she is and he has some really good reasons for keeping teens off of the
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Jan 27, 2009
Lauren
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All Meg has ever wanted to do was get away. Get away from everything that makes her life the insane thing it is: her high school, her overprotective parents, and her annoying in the middle of nowhere town. To show her feeling for this she does everything a teen in her town isn’t expected to do: die her hair blue, ride a motorcycle, do drugs, and hook up with random guys. Though, one day she just goes way too far. She is caught hooking up with her boyfriend on a train track where two teenagers we
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Feb 20, 2012
Cinnamon
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Meg is hell-bent on living life to the fullest before she graduates and gets out of town. But for her, living life means trying to destroy it. She spends her time getting high, drunk, and having sex with anyone willing. But things change when she and her friends, high one night, are busted on a dangerous railroad bridge. The cop who busts them, only a year older than the kids themselves, arranges for them to do ride-alongs with emergency vehicles during their Spring Break as punishment. The
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Jan 19, 2012
KatiD
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Going to Far is the story of Meg MacPhearson, a seventeen year old girl, who is clocking the time until she graduates and can get the hell out of her tiny Alabama town. Meg is a wild child: taking crazy risks, drinking too much, sleeping with the wrong boys, and generally making many bad choices. She's the town bad girl.
One night, Meg and the guy she's been sleeping with, Eric, and two other friends, head out to a bridge in town where it's rumored some kids died. The group is drunk, an More...
One night, Meg and the guy she's been sleeping with, Eric, and two other friends, head out to a bridge in town where it's rumored some kids died. The group is drunk, an More...
Jan 08, 2012
Mary
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Meg has dyed-blue hair and a penchant for bad behavior. That's how she ends up drunk on a railroad bridge with the town rich-boy drug dealer in the middle of the night. And she's even gotten a pair of goody-two-shoes classmates to join in the fun. Luckily, the train misses them; unluckily, they're all arrested--by a driven young cop who constantly patrols the bridge to keep teens from getting killed. The rich boy's lawyer dad gets him out of trouble, but Meg and the others have to do community s
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Dec 21, 2011
Esther
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I'd been reading a lot of good things about Jennifer Echols, and Going Too Far does not disappoint. The characters are real, the emotions are raw, and you feel every bit of the story along with Meg and John. The relationship develops naturally, so that when everything blows up and they still get back together, it makes sense, and more than that, as the reader you're rooting for them both by that time.
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I'd been reading a lot of good things about Jennifer Echols, and Going Too Far does not disappoint. The characters are real, the emotions are raw, and you feel every bit of the story along with Meg and John. The relationship develops naturally, so that when everything blows up and they still get back together, it makes sense, and more than that, as the reader you're rooting for them both by that time.
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Dec 04, 2011
Cherr
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Meg has indigo/cyan/violet hair — her way of saying that nothing can get to her, that she's been through enough to not be afraid or to not care about what people think about her. Meg is stuck in the past. She doesn't figure that out at first, but realizes eventually that the unusual color of her hair sells the very obvious about her. An experienced past. Meg thinks she has it all figured out. She hates to plan but unknowingly does it all the time. She predicts the reactions of people well. She k
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Nov 28, 2011
Mary
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Oct 28, 2011
Kristin
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GrowingUp YA
First, let me start by saying that this is one of the SEXIEST books I have ever read. I could NOT put it down! Also, I OFFICIALLY love Jennifer Echols.
Moving on...
Meg is the wild-child with a surprising past, while John is this tough, police officer with some secrets of his own. While the romance between them is anything but perfect, it is so in your face and honest that you can't help but root for them until the very end.
And I mean that! I wa More...
First, let me start by saying that this is one of the SEXIEST books I have ever read. I could NOT put it down! Also, I OFFICIALLY love Jennifer Echols.
Moving on...
Meg is the wild-child with a surprising past, while John is this tough, police officer with some secrets of his own. While the romance between them is anything but perfect, it is so in your face and honest that you can't help but root for them until the very end.
And I mean that! I wa More...
Aug 31, 2011
Heidi
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pretty good. BUT really. i know teens think about sex all the time, but i'm getting so burnt out on teen fiction that has sex as it's climax(no pun intended). i really liked most of this because it showed that often the most fun part of falling in love is letting your guard down and getting to know other people. and that the suggestion of a kiss is way more exciting than anything completely explicit. meg was had quite the funny personality and was delightfully trashy but still wanted good things
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Aug 22, 2011
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Seventeen year old Meg’s been at loggerheads with her father all her life, and this time she’s gone and done something so outrageous he’s given up all hope: she got arrested. Just her luck, her ‘cop’, has a lesson to teach her. He makes sure that Meg and her associate trespassers each spend a weeks worth of nights, during spring break, with one of the emergency services their little escape disturbed. Guess what? Meg gets the ‘police’, or rather Officer After, the officer who ar More...
Seventeen year old Meg’s been at loggerheads with her father all her life, and this time she’s gone and done something so outrageous he’s given up all hope: she got arrested. Just her luck, her ‘cop’, has a lesson to teach her. He makes sure that Meg and her associate trespassers each spend a weeks worth of nights, during spring break, with one of the emergency services their little escape disturbed. Guess what? Meg gets the ‘police’, or rather Officer After, the officer who ar More...
Aug 22, 2011
Ddpjclaf
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2.5/5 stars for GOING TOO FAR by Jennifer Echols.
I would really like to say I loved this book. I really would. The premise of a troublemaker girl falling for a cop was great, priceless. And the fact that she fell for him WHILE she was being punished for committing a crime was hilarious.
Here are the things I had a problem with:
1. I realize Meg was very closed off emotionally due to what had happened to her in the past, but the lack of feelings in her narrative drove More...
I would really like to say I loved this book. I really would. The premise of a troublemaker girl falling for a cop was great, priceless. And the fact that she fell for him WHILE she was being punished for committing a crime was hilarious.
Here are the things I had a problem with:
1. I realize Meg was very closed off emotionally due to what had happened to her in the past, but the lack of feelings in her narrative drove More...
Aug 20, 2011
Roxanne
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4.5 Stars
Amazing book, Going Too Far was my first book by Jennifer Echols and I adored it.
This book is from Meg's perspective and we get to hear all her inner thoughts and why she acts the way she does. She was a very interesting character, at first I thought it was just a normal teen angst but as the book goes on we find out deeper reasons.
The book gets straight into the drama with Meg and her friends being drunk and high on a railway bridge that is known for kil More...
Amazing book, Going Too Far was my first book by Jennifer Echols and I adored it.
This book is from Meg's perspective and we get to hear all her inner thoughts and why she acts the way she does. She was a very interesting character, at first I thought it was just a normal teen angst but as the book goes on we find out deeper reasons.
The book gets straight into the drama with Meg and her friends being drunk and high on a railway bridge that is known for kil More...
Aug 17, 2011
Mimi
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Aug 14, 2011
Dana
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Meg has secrets, Meg has pain, Meg hides what she can in what she calls living. But what she calls living is really a walk on the wild side and that walk one night lands her in a whole lot of trouble.
John has something to prove to himself to the world. John's got secrets too and when Meg shows up one night in a place his demons lie he's going to turn her walk on the wild side to a one way ticket in a direction she'd never choose to travel.
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John has something to prove to himself to the world. John's got secrets too and when Meg shows up one night in a place his demons lie he's going to turn her walk on the wild side to a one way ticket in a direction she'd never choose to travel.
The secondary characters in thi More...
Jul 17, 2011
Lisa
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Very entertaining. I read it really quite quick because it was one of those books you don't want to put down.
I found it to be witty and I got a few smirks/giggles from it. I loved the characters as they had depth and personality, which is all I really ask for when it comes to characters! (Sometimes it seems impossible)
I love stories where there is an opposites attract/wild chemistry/banter thing going on. I loved the way Meg and "JohnAfter" communicate and inter More...
I found it to be witty and I got a few smirks/giggles from it. I loved the characters as they had depth and personality, which is all I really ask for when it comes to characters! (Sometimes it seems impossible)
I love stories where there is an opposites attract/wild chemistry/banter thing going on. I loved the way Meg and "JohnAfter" communicate and inter More...
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