Rowena’s review of The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski.
Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart.
Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.
With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish, someone not so very different from her and who harbors his own dark secrets. But Camryn swore never to let down her walls again. And she vowed never to fall in love.
But with Andrew, Camryn finds herself doing a lot of things she never thought she’d do. He shows her what it’s really like to live out-of-the-box and to give in to her deepest, darkest desires. On their sporadic road-trip he becomes the center of her exciting and daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But will Andrew’s dark secret push them inseparably together, or tear them completely apart?
Due to sexual content and language, this book is recommended for 17+ – Adult Contemporary Women’s – New Adult Fiction
I’m becoming a huge New Adult fan so when I came across the blurb for this book (not to mention the gorgeous cover), I wanted to read it.
Camryn Bennett hasn’t been the same since her boyfriend was killed in a car accident. It’s been a few years and she’s already had a new boyfriend who ended up cheating on her so she’s kind of checked out emotionally on pretty much, everything. When drama goes down between her and her best friend Nat, Camryn jumps on a bus headed out of town to get away from…everything.
Camryn is in her head a lot. She’s dealing with a whole lot of loss. She lost her boyfriend and first love to a car accident. She lost her brother to prison for drunk driving and she’s just not happy. Nothing can make her happy. She doesn’t have a lot in common with anyone so she doesn’t really feel the club scene that her best friend Nat is into. When she jumps on that bus and decides to take it to Idaho, she feels a freedom that she hasn’t felt in a long time.
It is on that bus that she meets Andrew Parrish.
Andrew is going through his own stuff right now. He’s got a dying father and a secret that he’s keeping close to his vest but when he sees the gorgeous blonde with the braid sitting alone on the bus, he’s intrigued. But then his protective instincts kick in when he sees a man that’s been eyeing her with a dangerous glint in his eyes for a while. There’s nothing to do but step in and make sure nothing untoward happens to his new friend so Andrew becomes a daily part of Camryn’s days on the bus and a friendship with blazing chemistry springs forward between them.
Camryn was the kind of heroine that I guess you get used to in these kinds of books. She’s suffered a great loss and she’s turned into herself and doesn’t want to be around people. She’s got a token best friend who is the exact opposite of her who is outgoing and loud and slutty and everything that Camryn is not. I didn’t really understand why having one night stands and being open and honest made girls slutty but that’s what Camryn thought. Her thoughts were kind of hard to take but as the story progresses, my reservations with Camryn disappear and I really warmed up to her.
Once the story took off (because it was a bit slow in the beginning), I really got into it. I got into what was happening with Camryn, what was going on with Andrew and when it all came to an end, I was satisfied with the way everything wrapped up.
Andrew was a great part of this story, my favorite part actually. He was everything that a hero should be in these kinds of books. Big, strong, understanding and really good in the sack. His secret kept me wondering what it could be throughout the entire book and even though about half way through, I figured out what it was…once that happened, I spent the last half of the book wondering how everything would end. I was hoping for one thing and scared that another thing was going to happen. It made this book addicting and I couldn’t put it down.
Overall, I really enjoyed this book. It was filled with everything that will keep readers turning the page. I will definitely be reading more from this author.
Grade: 4 out of 5
This book is available from Forever. You can purchase it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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