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Book Review: Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry – Blog Tour

Mar 25, 2016

Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

Pages: 384
Publish date: 29th March 2016
Publisher: Harlequin TEEN
ISBN: 0373211627
Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU

One moment of recklessness will change their worlds.

Smart. Responsible. That’s seventeen-year-old Breanna’s role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line. Until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyber-bully’s line of fire—and brings fellow senior Thomas “Razor” Turner into her life.

Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don’t belong. But when he learns she’s being blackmailed over a compromising picture of the two of them—a picture that turns one unexpected and beautiful moment into ugliness—he knows it’s time to step outside the rules.

And so they make a pact: he’ll help her track down her blackmailer, and in return she’ll help him seek answers to the mystery that’s haunted him—one that not even his club brothers have been willing to discuss. But the more time they spend together, the more their feelings grow. And suddenly they’re both walking the edge of discovering who they really are, what they want, and where they’re going from here.

Walk the Edge:

I received an e-arc of Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry from Harlequin Teen Via Inkslinger PR in conjunction with the Walk the Edge Blog Tour. This has in no way influenced my thoughts and feelings about the book.

If you know me well enough then you would know that I love Katie McGarry’s books, her books were one of the first contemporary novels that I read and I let me tell you, I am so glad that I did.

Last year when I read Nowhere but Here, I fell in love with the characters and the world. There is something have guys and bikes that is so fun to read.

Walk the Edge is quite different in relation to the themes that it contains compared to Nowhere but Here. It is quite dark at times, but that is what I love about Katie McGarry’s writing, she can talk about things that are dark, but do it beautifully.

Walk the Edge follows protagonists Breanna, who is quite, shy and hella smart and Razor member of The Reign of Terror motorcycle club. Brought together by something that was a beautiful moment, but made to look like something more. Breanna and Razor join forces and make a pact; find out who is blackmailing Breanna and what really happened to Razors mother.

I adored both protagonists in Walk the Edge. They are both so different, but just work together so well.

Breanna is the shy type. She does what she has to do and is always there for her family, even when they are not there for her. And as the novel went on we get to see her grow. I enjoyed Breanna a lot, she wasn’t annoying or whiny, and she felt normal.

I cannot explain how much I loved Razor. You just feel for him so much. He had this fire about him, however he also had a wall and we slowly see him soften as the book went on.

I really enjoyed the plot of Walk the Edge. It was intriguing and had me turning page after page. I wanted to know what happened to Razors mother, why the club was being so secretive.

We also get to see how the town feels about the club in this book. We see the hatred that most of the town has and gosh, it broke me at times. They all have this outlook on how the club or they liked to call it sometimes gang work.

Walk the Edge has a sense of family. Good and bad, mostly bad. I love how Breanna had a big family, but they were just horrible. They were never there for Breanna and again, it broke me. Breanna has given up so much for them and they give nothing back. They infuriated me, I wanted to throw my book (well phone) across the room, whenever they were in scenes.

We also see a side of the club that we didn’t see in the previous books and I didn’t like it at all. They way that they treated Razor at times…no please.

I love the writing style of Katie McGarry, it’s easy to read and flows so nicely. You are never confused about what was going on. You just along on the ride.

I adored the romance in Walk the Edge. It was slow burning at first, but we could also see the attraction between the two and I loved it.

This has to be one of the most intense endings of a Katie McGarry book, and that is saying something, because the ending of Nowhere but Here is pretty heavy. There was just something about the ending that made it more jarring.

Overall, I loved Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry. It has a steamy romance, dark issues, sweet love and protagonists that pulls you right in. Walk the Edge by Katie MaGarry is a brilliant second novel in the Thunder Road series that is for lovers of YA Contemporary and anyone else who loves romance in dark times.

Have you read Walk the Edge yet? What did you think of it? Are you going to? Let’s chat!

Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.

Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine’s 2012 Reviewer’s Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.

10 Most Anticipated Romances for the First Half of 2016

Jan 9, 2016

As part of the Contemporary Romance Challenge, there is a topic each month that we can talk about. This months topic is Ten Most Anticipated Romances for First Half of 2016. You can check out the Januray link up here and see what others are book forward to. You can also sign up to the challenge here. This is the first year that I am particpating in something like this so I am pretty excited.

Monthy Topic: Ten Most Anticipated Romances for First Half of 2016.

These are in no particuly order. I have a mixture of both Young Adult and New Adult as really they are the two that I read.

Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

You’re Still the One by Rachel Harris

Hallowed Ground by Rebecca Yarros

Thanks for the Trouble by Tommy Wallach

What I Saw by Beck Nicholas

P.S I Like You by Kasie West

Summer of Solane by Erin L. Schneider

Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

The Things I Didn’t Say by Kylie Fornasier

Wanderlost by Jen Molane

And there. I will most likey read a whole lot more contemporary books than this but this my somewhat top 10.

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Release Week Blitz: NOWHERE BUT HERE by Katie McGarry + Giveaway

May 29, 2015

Nowhere But Here (Thunder Road #1) by Katie McGarry

Pages: 496
Publish date: June 1st 2015
Publisher: Harlequin (Australia), TEEN
ISBN: 9781743690956
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Purchase: Book Depository – Amazon UK – Amazon US – Amazon AU –Harlequin Books

An unforgettable new series from acclaimed author Katie McGarry about taking risks, opening your heart and ending up in a place you never imagined possible
Seventeen-year-old Emily likes her life the way it is: doting parents, good friends, good school in a safe neighborhood. Sure, she’s curious about her biological father—the one who chose life in a motorcycle club, the Reign of Terror, over being a parent—but that doesn’t mean she wants to be a part of his world. But when a reluctant visit turns to an extended summer vacation among relatives she never knew she had, one thing becomes clear: nothing is what it seems. Not the club, not her secret-keeping father and not Oz, a guy with suck-me-in blue eyes who can help her understand them both.Oz wants one thing: to join the Reign of Terror. They’re the good guys. They protect people. They’re…family. And while Emily—the gorgeous and sheltered daughter of the club’s most respected member—is in town, he’s gonna prove it to her. So when her father asks him to keep her safe from a rival club with a score to settle, Oz knows it’s his shot at his dream. What he doesn’t count on is that Emily just might turn that dream upside down.No one wants them to be together. But sometimes the right person is the one you least expect, and the road you fear the most is the one that leads you home.

Welcome, Welcome to the release week blitz of Katie McGarry’s Nowhere but here. It’s out now so hurry up and go get it. Seriously it’s amazing. You check out my 5 star review on Nowhere but here. But before you go and check out the book, check out the awesome trailer. Because come on guys hot guys and motorbikes.

And if that wasn’t enough check out this excerpt from Nowhere but Here. This is in Emily’s Point of view, so get excited.

THE MOTORCYCLE ACCELERATES AND THE FEW inches I had established between me and Oz: gone. My body slides forward, colliding into his, and we click together like two puzzle pieces. Heat rushes up my neck and onto my cheeks. My thighs are too close to his, too tight against his body and this is way more intimate than I have been before with a guy.

Even when the two of us kissed.

Oz veers left, away from Olivia’s, away from the main road, and the entire motorcycle pitches to the side. My heart thunders and my fingers clutch not only at Oz’s belt loop, but at the material of his jeans, and his hips.

Oz glances at me over his shoulder as the bike straightens out. “Lean with it, Emily.”

Right. Lean with Oz and the bike. Got it. The narrow road curves ahead and this time when Oz and the bike tilt, I move along with it. Oz releases one of the amazingly high handlebars and massages my knee before returning his hand to the grip. Whether in reassurance or to affirm I mastered the curve I don’t know, but either way, I sit higher.

The wind whips through my hair and onto my face and I shut my eyes for a brief second and pretend that I’m flying. There’s something energizing, something hypnotic, something inside me that begs to burst out of a cage in search of freedom.

The motorcycle kicks forward and our speed increases. Beams of sunlight filter through the towering trees and green foliage blurs together as we fly over the road. From head to toe, my body vibrates with the loud growling of the powerful machine.

My knee still tingles from where Oz laid his fingers on me and I’ve never been more aware of my hands in my life. I should let go of Oz’s body, but I can’t. Belt loops weren’t enough and my fingers have somehow edged up and onto his sides. Oz is solid. Yes, definitely solid. Every inch of him that I touch is tight muscle.

Oz is a year older than me, but somehow he seems older, wiser and hotter than any other guy I’ve known. Just the way he rides his bike creates this overabundance of confidence.

Warm sensations I’ve never experienced before blossom through me. We enter another curve and I lean with him. I like how in sync I’ve become with Oz and the motorcycle. Like we’ve merged into one.

The purr of the engine deepens and Oz eases the bike to a stop. His feet hit the ground and he turns the machine off. It’s as if all sound in the world ceased, or maybe I’ve gone deaf because there’s no way anything can be this still or silent.

The wind picks up and the silence is frightened away with the roar of the trees bending. Both Oz and I shift with the flow of air and Oz doesn’t move the bike until the breeze gentles.

Oz kicks down the stand and the bike tilts, but not too much. He sets a hand over the fingers that I laced together across his stomach. Oh, hell, I’m plastic wrapped to him. I drop my head onto his shoulder and it places me closer, and closer is not what I need.

I go to unglue myself, but Oz squeezes my fingers, sending a jolt of electricity up my arms. “You okay?”

I have to clear my throat to speak and that just sucks. “Yes.”

Oz slides his fingers against mine and a fluttering occurs in my stomach. It’s a light fluttering. Ticklish even, and my survival instincts scream at me to get off this motorcycle.

And thats just a small snippet on how amazing the novel is.

About the Author
Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine’s 2012 Reviewer’s Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.

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