John chose to come back and work as an Officer in this town and he doesn’t want to leave.įirstly, Meg was quite an interesting character. Meg wants nothing but to get out of this town and never come back. But both of them want very, very different things out of life. As they spend that week together on graveyard shift in the squad car, they are both falling in love. Although they have many differing opinions, and argue about pretty much everything, Meg and Officer After come to realise that there’s a little bit more to each other than meets the eye. He’s dedicated to protecting the citizens of their small town from the dangers of the railroad bridge and he’s dedicated to making silly teenagers like Meg wake up a bit and realise that their lives are too good to waste drinking too much, taking drugs and sleeping with deadbeats like Eric. He’s changed a little since then – about 20lbs of muscle mostly and a no-nonsense buzzcut. Officer John After is only 19 and graduated one year ahead of Meg from her high school.
He’s not as old as she thought she was, nor is he as humourless. To Meg’s dismay, she draws the police squad car for her punishment – and the humourless police officer who arrested her.Įventually Meg comes to realise that this Officer isn’t quite what she imagined. As predicted, Eric’s rich laywer father gets him out of this punishment and it’s up to Meg, Bryan and Tiffany to fill the three spots. Her parents are done bailing her out after her reckless behaviour and it’s up to the police despatcher to take her home after a night in the police station.Īs punishment, the officer that arrested them recommends that the kids be forced to spend a week on the nightshift with the people that had to be called out to the railway bridge because of their reckless behaviour: the police themselves, the fire department and the paramedics. Eric’s rich lawyer father bails him out and the parents of her friends, Brian and Tiffany, come to collect their respective children. They are arrested by the local conscientious police officer and taken to the station. One night before Spring Break, before Meg gets to go down to Florida and see the beach, her and her “boyfriend” Eric and two friends of theirs decide to go up to the railroad tracks where a young girl and her boyfriend were killed several years ago after they couldn’t outrun the train. She’s reckless, indulging in enough outrageous behaviour that her father has washed his hands of her and has pretty much ordered her mother to do the same thing. Meg is 17 and a few months off graduating and getting the heck out of her small town and going to University. I’ve read four of her books in a very short period of time recently and although Forget You is my favourite, this one, Going Too Far comes pretty close. Ok I think I might have a little bit of a writer/girl crush on Jennifer Echols.
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