THE EDGE OF EVERYTHING
By Jeff Giles Bloomsbury, 359 pp.
There are definite shades of Twilight in this supernatural thriller ( that could be subtitled “Beauty and the Bounty Hunter.” The Edge of Every
thing centers on a 17-year-old Montana girl, Zoe, and her enigmatic savior. Still dealing with the loss of her father in a caving accident, Zoe and her brother are attacked by a former family friend and saved by a teen boy with otherworldly powers and no name. She gives him the name X, he turns out to be a guy from a hellish underground locale called the Lowlands who has been unleashed to capture the souls of evildoers, and there are complicated feelings all around. While Zoe’s story is pretty standard YA fare, the best part is time spent with X fleshing out the mythology of the Lowlands, a fantastical place with its own class system and family drama.