Review & Excerpt: Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

Crushed on by Shannon, on March 24, 2016, in Blog Tour, Future releases, Giveaways, New Releases, Reviews / 1 Comment

Review & Excerpt Tour: Walk the Edge
by Katie McGarry

I am so excited to share with you our stop on the Walk the Edge Review & Excerpt Tour! Walk the Edge is the second book in the Thunder Road series by Katie McGarry! We absolutely love this series – check out all the series information, our spoiler-free review, an excerpt, and be sure to enter the tour-wide giveaway! Don’t forget to pre-order Walk the Edge and submit your information for the pre-order incentive – details below!

One moment…

That’s all it takes to change your life.

What happens when your entire future is on the line because of one reckless moment? This is what Breanna Miller and Thomas “Razor” Turner have to face in Katie McGarry’s WALK THE EDGE. Blackmail, family secrets, future plans on the verge of collapsing, two people who aren’t supposed to be together fall in love, and the power of social media in defining who you are when you’re not even sure who that person is yet…Join the Club and and immerse yourself in the world of the Reign of Terror. Pick up WALK THE EDGE today!

Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

Series: Thunder Road #2
Category: Young Adult, Contemporary Romance
Publication: March 29th, 2016; Harlequin TEEN
Purchase: Amazon, B&N, iTunes, Kobo, IndieBound

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 cyberbully’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.

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Excerpt:

The colors and sights of the club merge. There’s too many people. Too much noise. A few feet away a trio of girls from school are staring at me—watching me and Kyle. One gestures toward me. The other two laugh.

Nausea knots my intestines. I didn’t mean to be the girl people laughed at. In fact, I craved the opposite. I wanted to be me for once, but to be me without the judgment and hate.

Wetness stings my eyes and I pivot away from Kyle. His fingers circle my wrist and he slides in front of me again. “Don’t be upset. I can make this better. For one year, don’t you want to be someone more than the weird smart girl?”

Sadness sinks past my defenses and creates an ache of pain, but then a flash of anger whips through me like a storm gale through trees. I tilt toward him as if he should be scared of me. “I am not that girl!”

“When did you stop? New clothes don’t change who you are, but I can help.”

He said it. Out loud. My fingers form into a fist. I should hit him. I should throw a punch into his face and hurt him exactly how he’s torturing me.

“Let me get you another drink.” His grip on my wrist lightens and his thumb slowly moves across my pulse point. His touch sickens me. “And we’ll talk.”

“Leave me alone.”

Kyle releases me then sags like I crushed him and I find him confusing. He’s the one causing me to suffer. He’s the one causing the tears flooding the rim of my eyes.

“I’m not trying to make you cry.” He crams his fingers into his hair. “I’m saying this wrong. Doing this wrong. I swear, I’m not trying to make you cry.”

I’m terrified to peek across the room again—afraid the girls from school will be cackling like hyenas. I desperately try to cling to the anger, but it slips through my fingertips.

I turn and there’s Addison. The elation that was on her face wanes as her eyes crazily take me in. “What happened?”

“Nothing.” My lungs burn and I want so badly to curl into a ball and cry, but I can’t. Not in public. Not with everyone gawking.

When she spots Kyle she rolls her shoulders back. “What did he do?”

“Nothing,” I say, and I’m moving. Through the crowd. Past guys who ask me to dance. Past Reagan who’s all smiles and tries to snatch my hand to join her and another friend. Past tables and chairs. I run past my name being called by multiple people.

I need air. I need to disappear. I need out of Snowflake and out of my home and out of this life and out of my skin and just out and with a push of my hands on the door, I am out.

I suck in a breath when my heels click against the blacktop, but then the door bangs shut and my heart jumps. No, I went out a side door. Not the front door. I spin and my fingers graze the smooth steel where a handle should be. It’s a security door and I’m officially locked out.

“Crap!” I shout into the night, but no one is around to hear.

To the right is a Dumpster. To the left is another alley. Both are shadowed. I choose left and pray once I reach the corner there will be light. But as I go to walk the world becomes disoriented. I throw my hand out to the wall when stumbling seems easier.

“Alone again?”

My head snaps back to the entrance and a surge of adrenaline shoots through my veins. Emerging out of the darkness is a large, looming figure. I stagger back. Away from the night of the alley, toward my hope for light, but there’s a crunch of glass under my feet. I trip, my ankle twists and a spasm blasts from my foot up to my leg.

My already bad balance is completely thrown. My arms flail, there’s a pain near my elbow as it connects with the brick and my body topples back.

I close my eyes, bracing for the impact of the ground, but as fast as I was falling, I hit something and then I’m ascending. My eyes fly open and I’m greeted by the most beautiful blue eyes. But then I shiver. Those eyes are as frozen as ice.

“You have the worst luck,” he says.

It’s Razor and he’s cradling me in his arms. As my skin vibrates, there’s a part of me that agrees with his assessment. But a small dissenting voice wonders if, in this moment, I’m lucky.

Review:

[book rating=4.5/5]

“I promise I’ll take care of you,” he whispers. “You’re safe with me.”
Even with an army of motorcycle guys outside that door, I firmly believe him.

It’s no secret I am a huge fan of the Thunder Road Series. After having read, Nowhere But Here I was immediately sucked into this world of motorcycle clubs and family drama. Maybe it’s because I grew up with a biker father who himself was a member of many clubs (some legit, some not so legit) but this story continues to capture my heart.

We pick up Walk The Edge not too long after the end of Nowhere But Here and this time the brooding and quiet Razor is the focus of the story. With emotional scars lingering from the mysterious death of his mother and compounding issues with his father, Razor is poised to combust. Then he meets the uber smart and responsible Breanna and let’s just say sparks fly.

Breanna is completely unlike Emily from Nowhere But Here and I think that’s why I liked her so much. She’s the responsible one, who never steps out of line, the glue that holds her massive family together, and she’s got a ton of heart. But she’s also nursing her own issues, the pressure her family puts on her to manage their large brood, the insults from her borderline unhinged older sister, and the fact that she has to try to hamper that she’s a borderline genius. That would take a toll on anyone, but Breanna handles it with grace.

When she has a chance meeting with Razor she’s scared (as most of the town is about RoT members), but there is no denying the underlining attraction. From there Breanna becomes the unwitting victim of a cyber bully and it crashes her and Razor together as they form a pact to help one another.

I have to say that the relationship between these two was so HOT. The simmering sexual tension was through the roof. I mean it gave me butterflies. If you thought Nowhere But Here was sexy this just blows it out of the water!!! I was so taken with these two social opposites and how tenderly they loved one another and fought to be together.

Beyond the relationship, this story had a lot going on from the mystery surrounding Razor’s mom’s death, the cyber bully issues that also plagued Violet (from Nowhere But Here), the drama with Breanna’s Family and Razor’s issues with his Dad, there was not a moment to catch my breath! And I have to say in regard to Razor and Breanna’s relationship I liked how authentic the outcome was (sorry no spoilers here). One of the best things about these stories is how Katie handles the complexities of family relationships, throw into that mix the dynamics of the club and it really provides for some powerful storytelling.

Of course all of our favorite characters made an appearance including Emily and Oz, and other members of the Reign of Terror (including some new ones).

This series has quickly become one of my favorites and I am so excited to see where book #3 goes, seems like it may focus on Violet & Chevy! These characters have endeared themselves to me so much and I love being in this world & can’t wait for more! Amazing 4.5/5 stars!

My Dream Razor: Christopher Mason

My Dream Breanna: Shay Mitchell

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Author Bio: Katie McGarry

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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