Review: The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

The Edge of Never
J.A. Redmerski
Publication date: November 15th 2012 by Createspace
Rating: 4 stars

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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 Raleigh, 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?

 I'm a sucker for road trip books, and this one didn't disappoint.

Camryn decided to take her life in her own hands and set off to embark on a journey that changed her life forever. All she knew as she got on a bus to Idaho from North Carolina was that she wanted to leave her old life, boring job, and other people's expectations of her behind. She never thought she would meet someone along the way, someone that would crawl his way under her skin and drive her completely crazy.

But that was Andrew for you.

Andrew teaches her to let go of her control a little, that it's okay to give in, and that there is no other music other than classic rock. While Cam helps him learn that there's nothing wrong with grieving, or crying, and that he shouldn't be afraid of death.

Towards the end of the story there was something things that didn't sit well with me - that I thought were unnecessary to the plot and flow of the book - but overall it was an amazing read, and I recommend it to everyone.