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.
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