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 was going to l More...

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 but on More...

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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 to his friends of nature. Not reading stori More...

4.5 stars

Would you believe me if I say I'd put off this book for quite a long time because I thought that a cop guy as the hero in a book is not cool? Well, now that I've read it I realized I was Totally. Freaking. Wrong! Because the whole time, I was swooning and crushing and gushing over John After. He absolutely took a place on my top book boyfriends! And yeah, so much for putting this off because, seriously, from all the books I've read of Jennifer Echols this is the one I so enjoyed the mos More...

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I can't for the life of me come up with any good reason for why this book is 4 stars and not 5 stars. Normally five stars for me are rated for books that have a huge emotional impact or connection, or challenge me (or are just plain and simply awesome, or I read in my childhood and I'm totally nostalgic for). I didn't really have an emotional connection but this book did have an emotional impact on me, because I cried in one particular part near the climax. Still, if More...

I’m going to say a few things before I start my review:

A long while a go I stopped reading. Not completely but, I was reading a book a week instead of a book a day, there were also books that were taking me three weeks to read!. I was blaming it all on school and thought that my blog and club where the ones consuming my time. I just realized that I was just missing the right book. I started the firsts chapters of this book and then I went to do other stuff and I simply couldn’t keep my mind off More...

Oh, ho, ho. Brace yourselves, I'm about to write the meanest, most drawn out negative review I've written to date. Be warned though, this review will have cursing. Lots of it, I suspect.

When I read the blurb for Going Too Far I knew I had to read it. Young girl keeps getting in trouble and the cop who's determined to show her the consequences of her actions ends up falling for her? Hell yeah, that sounds hot. And I'm not even the type of person who likes to read books that sound hot. But fuck it More...

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 about Meg and More...

Reviewed by Jennifer Rummel for TeensReadToo.com

Meg pushes limits.

Right before Spring Break, she and her friends are found trespassing on a dangerous railroad bridge, under the influence. They almost lose their lives.

As punishment, they must forgo their trip to Miami Beach and instead each spend a week riding with a trauma unit in an effort to teach them a lesson.

Meg must spend the week riding in a police car with the officer who brought her in. She's unnerved to find that not only is he a fe More...

Very different for Echols than any of her other books to date - darker and more edgy. She tackles the difficult Bad Girl falling (oh-so-against-her-will) for the Good Boy. We romance readers like our bad boys, and let's face it, we often sit in unfairly harsh judgment of our bad girls.

But Meg... she's got her reasons. And John - he's got his, too. They're more alike than anyone knows. More alike than they could ever guess. Watching them slide together like two little puzzle-shaped magnets was so More...

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 her pot-addl More...

Awesome book! I really enjoyed the character line up. A quick read full of surprises. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys a contemporary romance.

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.

"I leaned forward until my boobs sat on the table like a set of oversize salt and More...

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 More...

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 could relate More...

Snark, sexual tension, brilliant dialogue...
Cop John After and the blue-haired-girl-felon.
Definitely a guilty pleasure :)

Okay so, I've made a vow to myself to write reviews for every book I finish (since making this vow), and the short warning to stay away from this book that served as my review before kept coming back to haunt me, screaming CHEAT!!!

I've cooled off since then, so I can probably give a review without dissolving into a puddle of gooey rage and expletives.

First off, let me address the rating; 4.02 average, as of the time I'm writing this review. I'll be honest, it's what reeled me in. And caught me l More...

What a wonderful book.
Going too Far was so much fun to read for me. The setting is in a rural community in Shelby County, Alabama, which also happens to be practically home for me. But it is still an amazing book or those who dont live in Alabama...it is just nifty to me is all. :) The main problem and highlighted issue in this book is the danger of railroads...Horrible accidents do happen on them, and often times, they are completely unnecessary not to mention gory. (they also r located in the More...

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 yang tidak akan dilakukan M More...

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, but no More...

I already knew before beginning this that Going Too Fare was going to be good. I was so right, too!
Going Too Far immediately piqued my interest and had everything I typically look for in a good read: likable characters (they could be on the "good" side or the "bad", but they have to be relatable), an interesting plot, great writing, and humor (which is super important for me!). I was already a fan of Jennifer Echol's, I adored her The Boys Next Door series, but this was just... wow. Definitely More...

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 caught by Mr. By The Book Of More...

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.

The week they spend together is an eye-opener for both John and Meg. As they struggle to cope with th More...

I really enjoyed this book... I mean really enjoyed it. I absolutely loved Meg and her blue hair and John was just... sigh... I felt for both Meg and John with their pasts and the whole "forbidden" love thing going on but I also saw how perfect these two really were for each other. I love reading Jennifer's books... she is an amazing writer and her stories always suck me in.

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By the description on the cover, I wasn't really expecting to like this book much. A cop and a teenager? Really?

Then I started reading, and quickly figured out that the cop was only 19, and grew to really like the MC Meg, and hello, MAJOR chemistry between Meg and cop LI, and before you know it--BAM! I'd finished the book.

If you love romances then you will probably like this book. Despite touching on some deeper subjects, at heart this book is fluffy, and requires some suspension of disbelief in More...

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 woul More...

After reading all the great reviews for this book, I am sad to say that it really disappointed me. I couldn't get into the book and I also found Meg to be so dramatic and annoying. Plus, I could not get over her blue hair! The whole time I imagined her as a clown. AHHHHHHH. No matter how much I tried to like her, it was all in vain. I didn't feel any connection between John and Meg. I also couldn't believe that they made an appointment to have sex! I am just so flabbergasted and disappointed in More...

While my credulity snagged a bit on the device of "not noticing" how young and cute our hero is for most of the book, the characters were so sweet and wonderfully portrayed I let it go. The flaws were interesting, the resolution uplifting, and I know I will come back to read this book again when I need some passion and a smile.

Re-read #1: Love, love, love (swoon). I cried, I didn't skim a word, still love Meg and John.

Re-read #2: Not two days at the beach and back to Meg and John, love the catha More...

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 bri More...

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 More...