When I read "Crash into you", the book that came after this one, I hadn't had the knowledge of this book, so I judge Beth harsher than she deserved. I thought she wasn't truly in love with Brian based on that little seen with her and Isaiah in the hospital. But I was wrong. Once I finished this amazing book, everything just... clicked. It became amazing how important reading them in order truly was. She just wanted her Best friend back. And she wanted him and Ryan, but couldn't get both. Its really sad to see their story fall apart in this book, because in "Pushing the Limits" Isaiah and Beth were super tight and then when she tells him she doesn't share Isaiah's love and they fall apart, its sad how much he truly cared for her. But then Rachel come in and we all know how that turns out.
Beth is just a girl, really. Hiding behind bitterness and anger, she thinks she is the shell of the person who used to be her. Elisabeth "Beth" Risk has to go through so much to understand that person she thinks is gone is still there, just waiting to be awakened. I loved her development of how she was a though bad girl and then she starts to meet Ryan and Lacey and you can tell she is nervous about going back to her old life, the life where everything was taken away from he. She turns softer, but she still was the same person she was before. She starts to realize that maybe loving Ryan wouldn't be the worst thing the world and that a girl like her was capable of having a happily ever after. But she thinks she has to take care of her mother, because that is what she have know all her life, but at the end realized that she wanted to have a life away from drugs, when all they had brought into her life was pain. Trent selling drugs and beating her mother, her dad leaving her because of selling heroin and her calling 911, her mother almost dying. It was enough. But then Trent beats her up along with Ryan and that is when is really scary.
I truly adored Ryan. I just thought he was a perfect gentleman, if you overlook the dare. He didn't knew what to do with his life because he didn't knew what to do. His life was basically mapped out for him by his parents and when he wakes up and realized this, he was lost. He discovered that he wanted to go to college and write. Become an author and go pro in baseball. He wanted to be with his brother, but since his brain was programmed to obey his parents, he never had the balls to do it,until Beth tells him to grow a pair and to talk to Mark. The reason he didn't saw Mark was because he was gay and his father kicked him out and told Ryan to not contact him. But it was like Beth dumped water on him to wake him up from the perfect illusion his father was creating. But the best thing ever was that he was a virgin. That was epic. No! The part I truly felt bad for him was this one:
"Did it hurt?"
"No, it wasn't like you were that...."
But she didn't had to say it. It wasn't like i was that long.
I felt so bad for him but laughed so much.
I truly loved this book and I hope you read it!
I love books and I hope you do to!
FR
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