Foster care and requisite rage against the system.The angsty fear that the MC will develop mom's mental illness because they're SO alike (and, totally creative!).Let's see, if I were to make a list of all the issue topics covered in this 400-page tome, you'd have: But, oh my gosh, Pushing the Limits was like a million parts heavy-handed issue-fest, zero tension, and, ok, a decent bit of swoon (but I couldn't actually get into any of the swooning parts because, ugh, issue overload!) Yeah, I'm not an issues book reader, but I can deal with some issues when they're done with a light hand and take a backseat to tension-filled swoon (I'm looking at YOU Going Too Far). I can't swoon over a guy who sounds like a girl. Between that and the skin-crawly "babies," "sirens," and "nymphs" my swoon was totally killed. The fact that his voice and personality also sounded pretty much like Echo didn't help, AT ALL. Especially since we rehashed it about twenty million times more than we needed to. Ok, I mean, sure, he gets brownie points for wanting to look after his brothers and all, but a BLIND man could have seen how that storyline was going to play out and yet Noah kept barreling down full steam into stupid and it was painful to watch. Oh Noah, I was supposed to fall for you! What happened?! Noah's storyline always felt like an afterthought to me, and one that made me cringe with embarrassment. She's pretty typical for this type of book and her score on the WWMCD Test is only higher because she's such a stock character (bright, troubled, perfectionist, good girl), but she's a stock character done well. Echo's characterization is strong and her voice came across clearly.
I think I would have liked this a lot more if it has been just Echo narrating. Outside of plot clues, the only way I could tell who was talking was when Noah would refer to Echo as "baby," "siren," and "nymph," (like, enough times to rival Edward's bronze hair) but since that also made me cringe, I'm not counting it as a positive. I like to do the Who's Talking Test to determine how well an author pulled off this narrative style, and unfortunately Pushing the Limits failed the test. Pushing the Limits is one of those dual narrator books where the narrators alternate by chapter. Book Review: Throne of Glass by Sarah J.Book Review: Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry.
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