Review & Giveaway ENDED: Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols {#JustContemporary}

I've been wanting to read a Jennifer Echols book for ages so I was very excited when I was able to borrow a couple to read for Just Contemporary {find out more about this event HERE}.  After borrowing the book I found a finished copy and decided to give it away to one of you!  You can find the giveaway at the bottom of the post.

Going Too Far by Jennifer Echols

Paperback, 245 pgs.

Published March 17th, 2009 by Pocket Books

Reading Level: Young Adult

Source: Borrowed

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 seem determined to keep her imprisoned in their dead-end lives. But one crazy evening involving a dare and forbidden railroad tracks, she goes way too far...and almost doesn't make it back.
John made a choice to stay. To enforce the rules. To serve and protect. He has nothing but contempt for what he sees as childish rebellion, and he wants to teach Meg a lesson she won't soon forget. But Meg pushes him to the limit by questioning everything he learned at the police academy. And when he pushes back, demanding to know why she won't be tied down, they will drive each other to the edge -- and over....

 This ended up being a great contemporary romance.  I was caught by surprise for much of it {I hadn't read the back of the book recently} and didn't always know how things would play out.  That was good and bad because I would have liked to maybe have a better idea in the beginning who John was.  I mean he was cop, but I imagined him to be older so I was kind of confused.  But things got straight in my head as I read and I started to understand him and Meg a bit better.

I didn't much care for Meg.  She wasn't very thoughtful, she wasn't very nice and I guess she just acted like one of those spoiled brats that I hate {not that she was a spoiled brat, she just acted like one}.  I remember knowing them as a teen and was always so embarrassed by their behavior.  And while Meg isn't a real likable person that's how she's meant to be because we watch her grow and discover why she she is the way she is.  And she redeemed herself in my eyes, but I still had a hard time reading about her at times cause she just drove me nuts!  And even though she drove me nuts there were times when I really did like her.  When she said and thought some really funny things and when she was crushing on John.

I wasn't real sure what to think about John, it took me a bit to get a better feel for him.  But once his softer side started to come out I fell for him like Meg did.  I realized what a great guy he was and he kind of just kept proving it over and over when Meg did stupid things.  Not that he didn't make any mistakes, but after Meg's enormous ones, his little ones weren't so bad.

Overall I ended up really enjoying this book a lot.  There is sexual reference and innuendo along with a few curse words.  I would recommend this to older or more mature young adult readers.  The characters are also 17 and 19, so that kind of gives you an idea for the age group this is meant for.  

The Giveaway:ENDED
One paperback copy (gently used, but looks new) to one lucky person!
US only or you be willing to pay for shipping outside the US (sorry!)
Must be 13 or older to enter.
Ends 11/24/11

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