"I dare you..."
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....
Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.
But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all....
I find better writing and better developed characters. The story is gritty, the characters real, and the relationships between the characters gripping and heartbreaking.DARE YOU TO is addicting...which made me laugh cause Beth spent the last eleven years taking care of a mother with a serious addiction. Which for anyone who has never had to deal with a parent who has an addiction, Katie McGarry writes with an uncanny ability to suck you so far into the heroine's shoes that you will be able to smell the alcohol on her mother's breath...She is THAT GOOD!! And Ryan Stone....how stinkin cute was he....I just wanna go back to High School and find me a Ryan Stone to hit on me at Taco Bell! I LOVED Ryan, I loved the honesty of being a "GUY" and causing trouble with his friends, and the need to "One-up" one another, it was just so much fun getting to know him, the "imperfect" perfect boy!
