The Edge of Never Day 1

I paid $0.99 for The Edge of Never a while ago (I think it was actually over a year ago). I mean, hey, it had a nice cover (I’m superficial, okay?) and there were a ton of stellar reviews.

But then before I finally got around to reading it, I read some negative reviews and went aw, fuck.

Slut-shaming?! Sexism?! Terrible writing?!

Then I finally started reading it and went aw, fuck, why did I pay for this crap?

Some quotes:

The protagonist to her friend:

*”Next week I’ll be out of my mom’s house and living with a slut.” (The “slut” is the protagonist’s future roommate and friend.)

I know this was supposed to be a joke, but I still went, “Seriously”? I don’t like the word “slut” in general, but to call your friend that, even as a joke, just because she happens to have a boyfriend she has sex with and has said she enjoys such sex… It pisses me off. WOMEN CAN ENJOY SEX AND NOT BE SLUTS, OKAY????

*”Even before Ian died, I always kind of thought out-of-the-box. Instead of sitting around dreaming up new sex positions, as Natalie often does about Damon, her boyfriend of five years, I dream about things that really matter. At least in my world, they matter. What the air in other countries feels like on my skin, how the ocean smells, why the sound of rain makes me gasp. “You’re one deep chick.” That’s what Damon said to me on more than one occasion.”

First of all, what’s wrong with dreaming up new sex positions??? IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH A GIRL WANTING TO ENJOY SEX???? And thinking about how the ocean smells is somehow more important? Girl, please. You sound like a stupid hipster who tries to be deep but fails miserably. And Damon, you must have your head up your ass if you think this chick is even remotely deep. And red flag, red flag. I sense Damon has feelings for our protagonist. I HATE IT WHEN ASSHOLES GET BETWEEN 2 BEST FRIENDS. PLEASE DON’T LET IT BE SO.

*” He grows copious amounts of weed in his basement, but he’s not a pothead. In fact, no one but me and a few of his close friends would ever suspect that a hot piece of ass like Damon Winters would be a grower, because most growers look like white trash and often have hairdos that are stuck somewhere between the 70’s and 90’s. Damon is far from looking like white trash—he could be Alex Pettyfer’s younger brother. And Damon says weed just isn’t his thing. No, Damon’s drug of choice is cocaine and he only grows and sells weed to pay for his cocaine habit.”

Since when do weed growers necessarily look like white trash? I’m offended on behalf of all weed growers. Oh, and doing cocaine is SO MUCH CLASSIER. 

More like so much more dangerous, you fucking stupid young adults.

*” and then Christian Deering, my Ian rebound guy and the jerk who cheated on me with some red-haired slut.”

AG, THIS MAKES ME SO ANGRY. I read a lot of YA and NA fiction (and watched six seasons of Gossip Girl), so yeah, I should be used to slut-shaming, but no. I still get pissed every single time. Why is the girl your boyfriend cheats with automatically a slut? Okay, if she knew your boyfriend had a girlfriend, you’re entitled to be angry, but it seems the other girl is still automatically a slut regardless of whether or not she knowingly had sex with someone’s boyfriend. And it always seem like the girl who was betrayed always gets WAY angrier at the other girl than her boyfriend, even though her boyfriend is the one who made a promise to her, not the other girl. 

Seriously, this slut-shaming, this girl-on-girl hate… really, it honestly makes me sick. I used to love Gossip Girl, and while I still do find it entertaining, I recently re-watched the series and was appalled at how the girls were so fucking mean to each other and participated in so much slut-shaming among themselves, while the boys were just, well, boys.

Anyway…

So yeah, so far, I do not really dig this book, but I will probably finish it because hey, I paid for this. 

And it will at least be fun to rant about, if not exactly fun to read.

96% more of this crap!