"You're my world, so I'd say that evens things out." 
 Wow,,, 5 stars of perfection... 
 From the amazon.com book description: 
 No one knows what happened the night Echo Emerson went from popular girl with jock boyfriend to gossiped-about outsider with "freaky" scars on her arms. Even Echo can't remember the whole truth of that horrible night. All she knows is that she wants everything to go back to normal. 
 But when Noah Hutchins, the smoking-hot, girl-using loner in the black leather jacket, explodes into her life with his tough attitude and surprising understanding, Echo's world shifts in ways she could never have imagined. They should have nothing in common. And with the secrets they both keep, being together is pretty much impossible. 
 Yet the crazy attraction between them refuses to go away. And Echo has to ask herself just how far they can push the limits and what she'll risk for the one guy who might teach her how to love again. 
 I don't think my review will be able to do this book justice, but I'll take a stab at it anyway. Told in alternating POV's in alternating chapters, we learn about Noah and Echo, two very damaged teens. They are forced together by their in-school clinical psychologist, Mrs. Collins, and at first they appear to be two very different people, who have lived very different lives, and want very different things in life. Opposites attract? But, this is simply the surface of each of these complicated people, and this book does not sink into the bad boy/good girl trap - there is so much more within both of these characters. 
 I enjoyed Noah's POV even more than Echo's. This kid had real passion. He loves his brothers, and would do anything to pull them out of foster care in order to care for them himself, and much of the book revolves around the choices that he plans to make and does make in succeeding in these plans. He is nothing if not passionate. 
 "I placed my hand over hers. My own heart rested when I rubbed my thumb over her smooth skin. She dropped the pen and grasped her sleeve in her palm, her contact defense mechanism. No. If she grasped anything, it would be me. Touching Echo felt like home." 
 What he goes through with losing his brothers to the foster care system - and trying to make peace with it all is heart wrenching, and I loved him even more! 
 "The pain in her puppy dog eyes ripped open the dam of emotions I struggled to suppress. Wetness invaded my eyes and I closed them, shaking my head repeatedly to stop any of it from falling. I did not want to hurt. I did not want to care, but dammit, this was killing me." 
 And Echo, she is beyond damaged. She knows her mom did something to her, but when she tried to dig into those memories once, she almost completely lost herself. She sees herself as a freak - scars and all, and thinks that no one could really love her. 
 "No guy's going to get close enough to ever love me." 
 I just have to say, she's damn lucky to have met our Noah. Yeah, yeah, I know he is fictional. 
 "This was Noah Hutchins. The Noah Hutchins that refused steady relationships or even dating. The Noah Hutchins that only wanted one-night stands. A stoner. My opposite. And right now, everything I wanted." 
 The author could have taken this story in so many wrong ways, but she totally knew where to bring it. And she did. And, I'm in love.