Book Review: Crash Into You

Crash Into You (Pushing the Limits #3)

Katie McGarry

 

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.

Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look.

But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

 

Crash into you is the companion/sequel to Pushing The Limits and Dare You To. In it you see both Noah, Echo, and Beth but unfortunately Ryan is not seen (although he is mentioned).

And Katie McGarry is just getting better!

 

I loved all of Katie McGarry's past books, and when I got approved for this one I literally jumped up and down and then sat down and read it in one sitting.

The story line was both similar and unique, comparing it to earlier books in the series. Isaiah is a "bad boy' covered with tattoos. Rachel is a "good girl" with the supposedly "perfect" home life with rich parents. Emphasis on the supposedly.

 

Comparing Rachel to Echo and Beth, she is my favorite girl in Katie's books so far. I love how she treated everyone fairly and although she had a bad first impression of Isaiah, she soon got over it to look to the inside and see that Isaiah is actually a really nice guy. Rachel feels like she is expected to be perfect in her home life, and a side effect of that is she deals with regular panic attacks, which after a hospital visit when she was young, she eventually hides from her family. Rachel deals with the pressure to be like her older sister that died from leukemia before she was born, and is expected to give speeches talking about Colleen which trigger the panic attacks. Rachel's twin Ethan soon finds out about the panic attacks but agrees to keep her secret for a while.

 

Isaiah is seriously amazing. He has this need to protect Rachel from the starting that is sorta Night In Shining Armor like. After having his heart broken by another girl that he had loved from the time he was young, he has been with many one night stands.

After meeting Rachel, you can see that Isaiah will do anything to keep her.

 

The relationship between them grows throughout the book, and eventually becomes a relationship where there is mutual love for one another. Their romance was really really beautiful.. And again my favorite relationship of all of the books in the past.

 

I loved seeing the characters grow, Isaiah getting better over his abandonment issues and Rachel with her panic attacks and family problems. The way that the characters dealt with their problems was both realistic and admirable.

The plot kept on going and didn't ever make me feel like I was wasting my time in reading it.  The ending is the most beautiful ending that I have read in a book in a while now....and there is absolutely no disappointment.

 This book seriously gave me the feels, with it being both romantic, exciting, and completely AMAZING!

I would definitely recommend/shove it in peoples hands to anyone who is a fan of Katie McGarry's past books (warning though, this one is so much better than the past two) and fans of Simone Elkeles.

There are a few characters in this book that I would love to have another story of, but I will have to deal with waiting for her next book (trigger crying here).

Now please excuse me as I go read the ending again :-)

4.5/5

The publisher provided an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I was in no way compensated.