2.5/5 stars for GOING TOO FAR by Jennifer Echols. 
 I would really like to say I loved this book. I really would. The premise of a troublemaker girl falling for a cop was great, priceless. And the fact that she fell for him WHILE she was being punished for committing a crime was hilarious. 
 Here are the things I had a problem with: 
 1. I realize Meg was very closed off emotionally due to what had happened to her in the past, but the lack of feelings in her narrative drove me up the wall. I could not connect to her whatsoever. There is a difference between being closed off to others, not showing them what you feel, and just feeling NOTHING at all. The fact that Meg was able to fall for Officer After showed me that she was NOT in the latter category, that she did and could have feeling for others. That her big thing was that she didn't want to. Because of this, the constant NON-showing of feelings, made me not care--and I'm talking about during Meg's thoughts. The author did a lot of *telling* about how how Meg felt "I started to panic", "I was crushing on johnafter". I will be straight and tell you that I could not tell IN THE LEAST when she started liking John. Not by her thoughts, not by her actions, until she outright said it. This is poor writing on the author's part--and I hate to say that, but it's true. It is the writer's job to get us, the reader, to live this story with the MC, and if we have no idea how it feels to be in her situation, then how can we? 
 2. Okay, so John was a 19 year old cop...the situation in and of itself is strange, but...and maybe I'm wrong here, but Meg is 17. He's 19. He is a legal adult, she is not. I'm not talking about age of consent, blah, blah, blah, but LEGALLY she is not an adult, and he is a COP. Did this not cross anyone elses mind? The whole time I read this book, that one fact kept blaring at me like a neon flashing light. Not that I have a problem with a 19 year old and a 17 year old. Not at all. But, considering how "responsible" and adult John acted, why did the fact that Meg was underage, and the fact that he was a COP, not stop him from sleeping with her? I could not fully appreciate this story because of that. It just seemed, I don't know, wrong? If he weren't a cop, I don't think it would have crossed my mind, though. How's that for irony? 
 The only thing that saved this book for me was John. I adored him. Who wouldn't? He appeared so tough, so strict on the outside, but on the inside he was just a hurt boy. Who doesn't love a guy like that? I just wish the author did her characters more justice by letting us know them better. I always felt like I was on the outside viewing this instead of living it with them. That just doesn't work for me, and it's totally the writing style, and my preference. I guess Ms. Echols style just doesn't work for me, and that's okay. I probably won't read anymore of her stuff because of it though.