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An interesting book or, better said, an interesting life story.

Be aware there's a bunch of cursing and crude language, almost excessively. The appeal of the humor is all the messed-up/f'ed up junk that happened in Tiffany's life. Oh my God. Sometimes, it got heavy. Nothing is politically-correct and a lot of trauma is present through carefully covert in jokes.

But real life can't be censored.

Anyway, I like the choppy, episodic chapters because it's easy to put down and start reading again. Honestly, many of the sentences are written in AAVE, which is cool.

"'Why endanger yourselves?' he said. 'Why do all this for me
Zoe looked down at where his hand lightly gripped her. She gave him a smile, a trace of light in the darkness.

'There's nothing good on TV,' she said (page 87)."

STORY
The Edge of Everything by Jeff Giles (368 pages) has some good narrative(s) though a bit cringy at times.

"Zoe couldn't help it; she took a photo to put on Instagram later (page 41).

For me, the bounty-hunter moments are the best parts. The entire supernatural element to bounty-hunting is just mad interesting, and the ordeal with a character named Stan was my favorite part.

At times, the story falls into "slice-of-life" moments such as Zoe and her mom not seeing eye-to-eye about her father's death or caving, which is a huge part.

Now, a serious case of "instalove" is present in this book. AIN'T NO REASON X should've been that caught up and strung out on basic-behind Zoe that quickly. Perhaps, it is akin to baby chicks imprinting on the first image they see as their mother, but X was too into Zoe too fast.

This doesn't mean I don't like their little cliche romance, but it is worth noting.

CHARACTERS
Zoe is bland but the stuff that happens around her is what's interesting.

Jonah, the little brother, is a little cinnamon roll. :D

Bounty hunters seem really nice for this sort of story. Maybe too nice for me... I mean Zoe was talking to them like they couldn't have snapped her neck into two at will. Here, bounty hunters are basically the grim reaper.

X is fine with me but his backstory seems a bit like a cop-out, so we don't forget for a second his life's not like the other morally-gray bounty hunters. I liked his gentlemen-ly speech but it didn't feel consistent at times.

OVERALL
Well, The Edge of Everything reeks of instalove, but it has me hooked enough to read the sequel. The story's a bit of a slow burn but the plot twists keep readers engaged. It is worth a read, and you can tell early on whether you love/hate it.

Really good. extremely lengthy but good

Really cute illustrations but a boring execution. This would be cool as an anime but as a manga I was bored to tears