Imme van Gorp's Reviews > Edge of Forever

|| 3.0 stars ||

I really quite liked the writing here. The pacing was nice, the setting was interesting and the story was engaging. I definitely noticed that I truly felt a connection to this and that I was invested throughout.

The only continual problem I had with the writing was that there were a little too many tragic backstories. The main characters seemed to have undergone about a million different forms of trauma, and it was a bit much. I feel like it would have been better if the author had picked a few of these stories and put all the focus on that, since the vast amount of it now was rather overwhelming and some of these stories lacked depth by immediately being forgotten about after being mentioned for the first time.
I also wasn’t a big fan of the entire ending. It was over-the-top, rushed and could have held a little more emotion. It didn’t quite satisfy me and some of the confrontations I was waiting for all along either did not happen or were extremely mild.

Now, when it comes to the romance, I have to say I often felt frustrated. I really liked Pasha, as he was funny, genuine, strong-willed, sarcastic, quietly vulnerable and unique. It’s why I was a little annoyed that he let Levi push him around quite a bit and did not stand up for his own worth. Levi treated Pasha rather unfairly at the beginning, and after they got together, he still refused to commit and was very hurtful from time to time. I’m not saying Levi was ever a complete arsehole or anything; it wasn’t that bad, but I just truly felt like Pasha deserved better and I desperately wanted him to point that out. Unfortunately, he never did. In the end, Levi got his act together, but it was too little, too late in my opinion.
Despite not buying into their romance entirely, I still enjoyed a lot of their interactions due to their great banter and the interesting setting they were in.

As I said before, I was quite the Pasha fan, and I was entertained and intrigued by most of the things that had to do with him. His relationship with his father, Maksim, the animals or the other workers on the ranch; I wanted to know about it all, and was never bored by any of it. Pasha’s character and his interactions with others were definitely a big reason why I enjoyed this book.

Long story short, I didn’t think this was the best book ever, but I had fun with and was quite intrigued by it all.