THE EDGE OF NEVER is a New Adult book about Camryn Bennett, a girl who has loved, lost, and is ready to kick her wanderlust into high gear after an incident at a night club where one friend betrays her and another rejects her. She hightails it to the nearest bus station trying to find something, anything, and winds up meeting Andrew Parrish, a guy who may just know where she can find herself: in his arms.

It took me a little while to get into this. The opening going into the nightclub scene is a little over exaggerated in terms of setting the characters up. It's a predictable situation with the best friend dressing up the main character and taking her to a club/party. Once it got to her taking the bus to Idaho and running away, it started drawing me in more.

While on the bus and after meeting funny and honest Andrew, Camryn's character comes to life. I began seeing the weight of her past and how it holds her back. Andrew is a wonderful character to lift that weight off, though he struggles with lifting his own. At first I thought their romance was rushed and because of that, unrealistic. The more I thought about it, my mind changed, because they are in a unique situation.

Not many romances start on a Greyhound bus where you spend unending hours with strangers, and on a road trip, there is little to no time spent apart from someone. In that light, the time frame is probably normal.

I loved the plot J.A. Redmerski gives this. I never knew until the last pages if the Camryn and Andrew would get a happy ending or not. They face struggles and problems, internal and external, and through them, they both become stronger. The situations they are placed in give them well-used room for character development.

The only thing that confuses me about this, and it isn't anything important, is the question of how they managed to have that much money to travel like they were. It sounded like Camryn had a little saved, but she is only twenty and worked a department store before she left. Andrew might have family money, perhaps, but again, no clear reason. It didn't hurt the feel I got from the book, but it still had me questioning that.

I like New Adult books, and THE EDGE OF NEVER was no exception. I didn't love it, but I like Camryn's story so much that I'm eager to read the sequel.