Going Too Far Review

Going Too Far By Jennifer Echols

There is a story in a town that a girl and her boyfriend died on a dangerous bridge, because the girl got stuck and the boy wouldn´t leave her, when the train came.
Meg is 17 years old and like to live life on the wild side. But a week before Spring Break, she and her friends are taking in by the police, for tresspassing on a dangerous bridge, while they are totally drunk. It was a close call, because if they had been there 5 minutes after, they would have been hit by the train.
As punishment, there trip to Miami in the spring break is cancelled and instead they have to stay and by night, be on a job: one with the police, another with the paramedics and the third with the firedepartment. Meg must spend the week riding in a police car with JohnAfter (the officer who arrestet them). But John has a weird obsession with the bridge and Meg can´t understand why. As the days goes Meg learns more about the officer and finds out, that they went to school together, that he is only a few years older than her, and that she starts falling in love with him.

I really loved this book. It is easy, absolutly good, not hard and fast to read. I totally loved the characters and how Meg and John are totally different. Because they could so learn something from one to another. There were twist in this book, that can be shocking. But i wasn´t suprised because i had a feeling about these twist. And they were almost right. So i didn´t get suprised, but i totally loved it anyway.
Meg is a person who is wreckless and lives her life and does whatever the hell she wants. She has Blue hair, a tatoo and doesn´t get attached to people, like she doesn´t call people, they call her.. But there are a lot more under the surface and you learn that she really isn´t like this, but that something has happen to her and therefore she acts this way. John is like the opposite, he takes things serious, he is young and ever since he left high school he hasn´t taken a break. All his friends are at college and partying and is unserious. While John stayed in the city, because of a thing that happened that is still tearing him apart. So he has his hands full with Meg. For Meg, the girl who doesn't plan anything and who runs away from any emotional ties, this week could spell out her downfall.
A beautiful book, worth reading, who has a lot of things under the surface.

Grade: 12