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.
This new paperback edition includes exclusive bonus material
- an all-new full chapter from Andrew's point of view
during a crucial scene!
Sometimes life takes you off course . . .
THE EDGE OF NEVER
Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett thought she knew exactly
where her life was going. But after a wild night at the
hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she shocks
everyone-including herself-when she decides to leave the
only life she's ever known and set out on her own. Grabbing
her purse and her cell phone, Camryn boards a Greyhound bus
ready to find herself. Instead, she finds Andrew Parrish.
Sexy and exciting, Andrew lives life like there is no
tomorrow. He persuades Camryn to do things she never thought
she would and shows her how to give in to her deepest, most
forbidden desires. Soon he becomes the center of her daring
new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in
ways she never imagined possible. But there is more to
Andrew than Camryn realizes. Will his secret push them
inseparably together-or destroy them forever?
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