The Edge of Never (Edge of Never, #1)

by J. A. Redmerski

[Leah]

I love New Adult books, everyone knows that by now so it’s lovely to discover a new author. Having saw The Edge of Always on Edelweiss and being accepted for a copy, I knew I had to get myself the first novel in the series, The Edge of Never. I bought myself the beautiful paperback, with the bright yellow spine, and I couldn’t wait to read it! I love road trip novels, they’re the best books EVER, and there are not enough road trip novels around. So having cleared my review backlog and with The Edge of Always release just around the corner, I decided to get stuck into The Ege of Never and I am SO glad I did because it was utterly amazing!

The Edge of Never is one of the best road trip books you will ever read, and what’s so amazing about it, is for 96% of the novel, the book only focuses on Camryn and Andrew, and their adventures across America. Any author that can get you to read about just two characters for most of a 450 page novel is special, and JA Redmerski certainly is that. Sure, some will question Camryn’s need to run away, and even more than that, her deciding to go with Andrew when he suggests the road trip, after the bus trip, but I loved it. I love characters who do spur of the moment things like that, it’s what makes them super interesting. If I had the guts, I would SO do something like that, but I lack guts. The road trip was SO enjoyable, and I loved the building tension between Camryn and Andrew.

Andrew and Camryn were such interesting characters. Both had secrets, both had issues, both were a bit damaged, but together, they just made perfect sense to me. I couldn’t WAIT for them to get together, because they were just perfect for each other. I loved how they didn’t just dive into their relationship though, I liked that it was a slow-burner that started as a friendship. They were just so comfortable with each other from the word go and as soon as they met on the bus, and then travelled miles and miles on the bus together, it was just so nice to go on that journey with them, and then in the car on the road trip to Texas, and their pit stop in New Orleans (which sounds like SUCH a beautiful city). It was honestly such a pleasure!

I am so excited to get stuck into the sequel, The Edge of Always, apparently it’s going to be another road trip between Andrew and Camryn and that makes me sooooo excited to read it. I really loved The Edge of Never, it handled such sensitive topics with such care and JA Redmerski is a super talented writer and I loved how the novel showed us both Camryn’s and Andrew’s perspective of things, that’s always the best way to write a book like that, so we can see how they both feel, see how they both see it etc. This was a pure delight to read and I was so sad to reach the end (though what an end it was! I knew something was coming, something I wasn’t going to like, but that was unexpected to say the least) and I can’t wait to dive into The Edge of Always, I just need to finish my current e-book first!