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I was one of those lucky dogs who received an ARC of The Edge of Darkness, the first book in this duology, and I absolutely fell in love with the characters, the story, the crackling wit and, best of all, the dialogue. This final book, The Brink of Darkness, is just as engaging, funny, sweet, sad, and cry-yourself-ugly as the first. Seriously, my eyes were swollen and my nose was running by the final page.

It's that good.

BOD begins not long after the end of EOD: X is damned to Hell, no longer a bounty hunter with kickass power and Zoe is damned to living on earth without a home, without X. She still has her fabulous friends, Val and Dallas (How could you not love those two). She still has her adorable brother, Jonah, with his innocent but astute observations. And she has the most understanding mother in the world who gets that her daughter fell in love with a bounty hunter from Hell but that doesn't mean she's happy about it.

The first part of the book focuses on X and as much as I missed him with Zoe, I loved getting to know him that much better. X knows his mother, who he has never met, is banished somewhere in the Lowlands and he makes a deal with Regent: if he brings Ripper, his psychopath mother figure, back from earth, Regent will help him find his mother. It's a heartbreaker of a deal but all parties, even the marvelous Ripper, understand.

With the Russian guard ("I'm not Russian, I'm Ukrainian".) forever in a tracksuit and wearing a gold chain necklace that says "Mama", wielding a baseball bat at his side, X proceeds further into into the Lowlands into what only can be best described as the true Hell. And this is where the book gets dark dark dark. Cringe-worthy dark. Sad dark. Painfully dark.

When the book flips back to Zoe, it's a relief. She's got her own angsty stuff going on, but at least it's not Hell. True, her house was destroyed and the family has to live with Rufus, the laid back dude in love with her mother. Uhura, one of the dogs that Jonah loves is dying. And, worse, her friends, who now know about X, are pissed at her. Why? First, she never told them about him and isn't that what friends are for, letting them know you have hooked up with someone, even if they are from Hell? And second, he's a bounty hunter from Hell with an evil overlord who destroyed her house, almost killed her brother and, dude, in case she forgot, X is from HELL.

It's an awesome book. I tore through BOD, laughing out loud, gasping, and then hiding from everyone because I was crying. Again. The author, Jeff Giles, has a gift with words and story and characters that he needs to share with readers more often. I'll miss Zoe and X but I would love to meet who else he has waiting for us.


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The Brink of Darkness The Edge of Everything Jeff Giles Books Reviews

I preferred book one
I really enjoyed this sequel. I would have given it 5 stars but there were certain things in the story (like many other YA novels) that I just couldn’t buy. Like Zoe’s mom telling her she’s going to trust Zoe after she’s made monumentally bad choices before that endangered not only Zoe herself but everyone who cares about her. What sane parent would EVER do that? A bit idealistic if you ask me. And dangerous. Also, the obsession quotient. Glorifying the misnomer that love is putting everything at risk for what you want while throwing the people you love under a bus to have what you want is not love. It’s ego and control. Other than that, the humor is well written (I laughed out loud myself several times). Enjoyed the story for what it is....Fantasy.
I hate classifications that limit one’s interests or a writer’s audience. Please don’t be put off by the category “young adult,” into which The Brink of Darkness is placed. This far-from-young-but-sometimes-less-than-adult reader loved this book and found it hard to put down, even when sleep was the order of the day.
Jeff Giles has become a master at creating a variety of characters (old and young) who have enough reality about them (even when some dwell in a supernatural realm) to engage the reader’s interest and emotions. In addition, the suspense that Giles develops in plotting this tale moves ever forward without causing one to say, “Wait! Where did that come from?” Both breaks and brakes are not needed.
I recommend this book to all readers. Don’t be trapped by the classification and consider The Brink of Darkness a book only for whatever you believe young adults to be. If you haven't read this book's predecessor, you should; however, don't feel you need to do so in order to understand this one. Giles has the rare ability to fill in blanks sufficiently without causing readers of the previous book to feel bogged down in details they already know. Enjoy!
In my review for THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING I mentioned that the book was kind of stalking me, popping up here and there, and then I ended up in a room at a writing conference with Jeff Giles sitting front and center of a panel with a copy propped up in front of him. I took it as a sign to just read the darn thing, and I am soooo happy I did.

When you enjoy a book as much as I did TEOE, you worry about its sequel. Will the characters feel the same after waiting a year (or however long it has been) to hear their voices again? Will the next part of the story be as good? Welp, I never should have let that worry niggle into my brain, because Jeff has the chops to make an equally wonderful part two.

THE BRINK OF DARKNESS is exactly that. There is so much darkness--it is hellish for obvious reasons, in that it's full of awful people who did (and continue to do) terrible things--but there is also so, so much light, hope, love, goodness. The balance is perfect. The cast of characters I didn't realize how very much I missed them until I dove back into this world. Funny. Complex. Realistic. Seriously, some of my favorite dialogue in any YA book I've read.

It would have been easy to make this book a big lesson in Don't Ask for Too Much in Life (or Death) or make it a bit too sweet, in order to please those looking for mostly a teen romance. Instead, struggle and acceptance are big themes, as are trust and hope. Pretty much everyone is multi-faceted in a realistic way, so decisions couldn't be presumed. I never really felt like I knew how it would end, where each (beloved) character would be when I swiped the last page, but I was so happy to trust fall into this sequel. The catch was everything I had hoped for.
I was one of those lucky dogs who received an ARC of The Edge of Darkness, the first book in this duology, and I absolutely fell in love with the characters, the story, the crackling wit and, best of all, the dialogue. This final book, The Brink of Darkness, is just as engaging, funny, sweet, sad, and cry-yourself-ugly as the first. Seriously, my eyes were swollen and my nose was running by the final page.

It's that good.

BOD begins not long after the end of EOD X is damned to Hell, no longer a bounty hunter with kickass power and Zoe is damned to living on earth without a home, without X. She still has her fabulous friends, Val and Dallas (How could you not love those two). She still has her adorable brother, Jonah, with his innocent but astute observations. And she has the most understanding mother in the world who gets that her daughter fell in love with a bounty hunter from Hell but that doesn't mean she's happy about it.

The first part of the book focuses on X and as much as I missed him with Zoe, I loved getting to know him that much better. X knows his mother, who he has never met, is banished somewhere in the Lowlands and he makes a deal with Regent if he brings Ripper, his psychopath mother figure, back from earth, Regent will help him find his mother. It's a heartbreaker of a deal but all parties, even the marvelous Ripper, understand.

With the Russian guard ("I'm not Russian, I'm Ukrainian".) forever in a tracksuit and wearing a gold chain necklace that says "Mama", wielding a baseball bat at his side, X proceeds further into into the Lowlands into what only can be best described as the true Hell. And this is where the book gets dark dark dark. Cringe-worthy dark. Sad dark. Painfully dark.

When the book flips back to Zoe, it's a relief. She's got her own angsty stuff going on, but at least it's not Hell. True, her house was destroyed and the family has to live with Rufus, the laid back dude in love with her mother. Uhura, one of the dogs that Jonah loves is dying. And, worse, her friends, who now know about X, are pissed at her. Why? First, she never told them about him and isn't that what friends are for, letting them know you have hooked up with someone, even if they are from Hell? And second, he's a bounty hunter from Hell with an evil overlord who destroyed her house, almost killed her brother and, dude, in case she forgot, X is from HELL.

It's an awesome book. I tore through BOD, laughing out loud, gasping, and then hiding from everyone because I was crying. Again. The author, Jeff Giles, has a gift with words and story and characters that he needs to share with readers more often. I'll miss Zoe and X but I would love to meet who else he has waiting for us.