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Nowhere #1
Edge of Nowhere
Kit Jackson has two talents in life. He can navigate the void known as the Nowhere to teleport himself across long distances and he can keep his mouth shut. These talents have earned him a reputation as a discreet, reliable Nowhere runner—he’ll smuggle anything for the right price—and that’s how Kit likes it. Morals don’t earn money, and neither do friends. When the private research firm Quint Services makes Kit an astounding offer for a mystery delivery, he says yes.
The parcel turns out to be an unconscious man, and even for Kit, that raises questions. When something monstrous attacks them in the Nowhere and throws them into an unknown wilderness, Kit and this stranger, a man named Emil, have to rely on each other. Kit just wants to make his delivery and get paid, but he finds himself increasingly entangled in Quint Services’ dangerous research—and his own attraction to Emil.
Emil Singh left his career in the Orbit Guard to work at Quint Services Facility 17, a base hidden in an asteroid, to prepare a team to cross the Nowhere into other worlds. It’s the chance of a lifetime and he can’t wait to explore the universe. But then Emil witnesses a terrible accident in a Facility 17 lab and gets sent to Earth for questioning. Something isn’t right, but before Emil can investigate, he and the Nowhere runner hired to transport him are knocked off course. Is the monster that attacks them a creation of Quint Services? What else is the corporation hiding? He has to get back to Facility 17 to protect his team and he needs Kit’s help. Can he trust the cynical young smuggler?
The parcel turns out to be an unconscious man, and even for Kit, that raises questions. When something monstrous attacks them in the Nowhere and throws them into an unknown wilderness, Kit and this stranger, a man named Emil, have to rely on each other. Kit just wants to make his delivery and get paid, but he finds himself increasingly entangled in Quint Services’ dangerous research—and his own attraction to Emil.
Emil Singh left his career in the Orbit Guard to work at Quint Services Facility 17, a base hidden in an asteroid, to prepare a team to cross the Nowhere into other worlds. It’s the chance of a lifetime and he can’t wait to explore the universe. But then Emil witnesses a terrible accident in a Facility 17 lab and gets sent to Earth for questioning. Something isn’t right, but before Emil can investigate, he and the Nowhere runner hired to transport him are knocked off course. Is the monster that attacks them a creation of Quint Services? What else is the corporation hiding? He has to get back to Facility 17 to protect his team and he needs Kit’s help. Can he trust the cynical young smuggler?
299 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 2018
About the author
Felicia Davin
15 books141 followersWhen not writing and reading fiction, Felicia Davin (she/they) can be found teaching or translating French. She loves linguistics, singing, and baking. She is bisexual, but not ambidextrous.
Originally from Kentucky, she currently lives in Massachusetts with her partner and their cat.
Originally from Kentucky, she currently lives in Massachusetts with her partner and their cat.
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December 21, 2021
I freakin' love corporate conspiracy storylines and weird physics shenanigans, and this M/M sci-fi romance combines both - along with the opposites attract trope and a hilarious game called "hockey soccer" (played on a basketball court) that you have to read about to believe. Good stuff!
June 28, 2021
3.5 Stars
The sci-fi story is pretty interesting, but the romance is rather 'meh' with the 'I love you' coming way too soon to be believable, even if the 2 MCs were in danger together. I totally get that 'danger bond', but not love. After less than a week. Actually, come to think of it, there is no romance at all in this story. One real conversation does not a romance make!
The sci-fi bit is about 'runners', people who can travel through folded space at will, and a big corporation that in one breath hates runners and in another wants to create them, and control them. So that's pretty interesting.
Kit is a born runner and has always valued money more than any other aspect of his life. He will transport whatever wherever and has some pretty flexible morals about it. He has no idea where he's from or who his parents are and has never had a relationship. Sex, sure, but he has made a point to never depend on anyone for anything, figuring everyone would leave him, anyway. Even the people who essentially raised him and are always there for him, he keeps at arms length.
Being hired, by Emil's employer, for an insane amount of money to transport Emil back to the asteroid lab where he works puts them both in danger and leads to the discovery of something very sinister.
Emil is thrust in the middle of all this because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and his superiors want to find out what he knows about the goings on (ie, does he have any idea what they've actually been up to?). He has had relationships, but nothing terribly long term with his lovers leaving him because of his over-dedication to his work.
Emil is a relationship kind of guy, but Kit simply doesn't trust people to stick around. I just don't buy his sudden change of heart and mind in the last minute or either of them actually being in love with someone they barely know.
The sci-fi story is pretty interesting, but the romance is rather 'meh' with the 'I love you' coming way too soon to be believable, even if the 2 MCs were in danger together. I totally get that 'danger bond', but not love. After less than a week. Actually, come to think of it, there is no romance at all in this story. One real conversation does not a romance make!
The sci-fi bit is about 'runners', people who can travel through folded space at will, and a big corporation that in one breath hates runners and in another wants to create them, and control them. So that's pretty interesting.
Kit is a born runner and has always valued money more than any other aspect of his life. He will transport whatever wherever and has some pretty flexible morals about it. He has no idea where he's from or who his parents are and has never had a relationship. Sex, sure, but he has made a point to never depend on anyone for anything, figuring everyone would leave him, anyway. Even the people who essentially raised him and are always there for him, he keeps at arms length.
Being hired, by Emil's employer, for an insane amount of money to transport Emil back to the asteroid lab where he works puts them both in danger and leads to the discovery of something very sinister.
Emil is thrust in the middle of all this because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and his superiors want to find out what he knows about the goings on (ie, does he have any idea what they've actually been up to?). He has had relationships, but nothing terribly long term with his lovers leaving him because of his over-dedication to his work.
Emil is a relationship kind of guy, but Kit simply doesn't trust people to stick around. I just don't buy his sudden change of heart and mind in the last minute or either of them actually being in love with someone they barely know.
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July 30, 2018
This book hooked me right from the beginning, and while it may have slowed down a bit in the middle, I still enjoyed it.
Set not too far into the future, there are people in the world called runners, who can walk into this dark, vast, unknown space they call The Nowhere (maybe think of it a little like the Upside Down from Stranger Things). Runners can be anywhere, and in a snap of their fingers, they are in darkness and can travel anywhere they want in a matter of seconds. They describe it as swimming through the air - and as long as they know the coordinates or if they've been to the place before, they can get there.
Kit, one of our heroes, is a runner. They are far and few between, and no one knows why they have this ability. Kit makes a living by running errands for people. For example, he starts the book by taking a dog from one state to another, through the Nowhere. Traveling through the Nowhere makes runners tired and extremely hungry, so Kit is always eating to boost his energy. This is how the other hero, describes Kit when he first meets him:
The person in question—short and slender, purple-haired, tan-skinned—was young and androgynous. Unconscious, but alive and seemingly unharmed, as long as Emil didn’t count that eye-searing combination of color in the outfit as a form of violence. Logic told Emil this was the runner Quint Services had hired to take him back to QSF17.
The runner certainly didn’t look like anyone else who worked at Quint Services Headquarters, given the hair, the tight black jeans, and the t-shirt with orange slashes across the chest. Come to think of it, the runner didn’t look like anyone else Emil had ever seen. Emil studied the angle of the cheekbones and the small, rounded point of the nose as if they might offer clues. The runner had a nice face, but one that resisted categorization.
He gets asked to take a person from Earth to a faraway station in outer space - and it's for a really large sum of money so he goes for it. When he arrives to get the person, who happens to be our other hero, Emil has been sedated and is unconscious. Kit feels weird about transporting a person who doesn't give consent, but he can't pass up the huge amount of money.
Emil has been working on a team at a place called Quint Services Facility 17, a base hidden in an asteroid. His team is researching the Nowhere and trying to breach it, without being a runner. Recently, there was a large explosion at the facility, which injured Emil and he has been down to Earth to be questioned about why the explosion occurred. The explosion not only partially destroyed the main scientist's lab, but the scientist is missing and strange things are happening in his lab now.
Kit goes to take Emil back to his asteroid, but in the Nowhere, a strange lighted object attacks Kit and sends both Kit and Emil to a strange land. Together, they have to figure out how to get back to a place they recognize and figure out what is inside the Nowhere that is after Kit. Oh, and along the way they fall in love.
There are many things I liked about this book. First of all, it's diverse. There are people of color, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and people of all sizes. The world felt very well represented.
Kit and Emil are really sweet guys with flaws, that they overcome to love each other. There is a pretty intense attraction between them, and their chemistry and sexual tension are done well. Emil is more the strong protector type, who looks at Kit, who always seems to be fighting for his life in the Nowhere, and gets spit out tired and starving, and he takes care of him. Kit is more scrappy - orphaned at a young age, he has had to fight to survive. His fight continues at Emil's facility, where Kit hides out to try to figure out what is happening in the Nowhere. He meets Emil's entire team, and while it took me a bit to figure out everyone and settle down on who is who, the team plays a big part in this book.
It does slow down a bit in the middle - but overall there is a lot of action and a nice romance journey. There will be a book two with the same cast, but there is a solid HEA in this one. A nice sci-fi read - I like this author's voice a lot.
Grade: B
Set not too far into the future, there are people in the world called runners, who can walk into this dark, vast, unknown space they call The Nowhere (maybe think of it a little like the Upside Down from Stranger Things). Runners can be anywhere, and in a snap of their fingers, they are in darkness and can travel anywhere they want in a matter of seconds. They describe it as swimming through the air - and as long as they know the coordinates or if they've been to the place before, they can get there.
Kit, one of our heroes, is a runner. They are far and few between, and no one knows why they have this ability. Kit makes a living by running errands for people. For example, he starts the book by taking a dog from one state to another, through the Nowhere. Traveling through the Nowhere makes runners tired and extremely hungry, so Kit is always eating to boost his energy. This is how the other hero, describes Kit when he first meets him:
The person in question—short and slender, purple-haired, tan-skinned—was young and androgynous. Unconscious, but alive and seemingly unharmed, as long as Emil didn’t count that eye-searing combination of color in the outfit as a form of violence. Logic told Emil this was the runner Quint Services had hired to take him back to QSF17.
The runner certainly didn’t look like anyone else who worked at Quint Services Headquarters, given the hair, the tight black jeans, and the t-shirt with orange slashes across the chest. Come to think of it, the runner didn’t look like anyone else Emil had ever seen. Emil studied the angle of the cheekbones and the small, rounded point of the nose as if they might offer clues. The runner had a nice face, but one that resisted categorization.
He gets asked to take a person from Earth to a faraway station in outer space - and it's for a really large sum of money so he goes for it. When he arrives to get the person, who happens to be our other hero, Emil has been sedated and is unconscious. Kit feels weird about transporting a person who doesn't give consent, but he can't pass up the huge amount of money.
Emil has been working on a team at a place called Quint Services Facility 17, a base hidden in an asteroid. His team is researching the Nowhere and trying to breach it, without being a runner. Recently, there was a large explosion at the facility, which injured Emil and he has been down to Earth to be questioned about why the explosion occurred. The explosion not only partially destroyed the main scientist's lab, but the scientist is missing and strange things are happening in his lab now.
Kit goes to take Emil back to his asteroid, but in the Nowhere, a strange lighted object attacks Kit and sends both Kit and Emil to a strange land. Together, they have to figure out how to get back to a place they recognize and figure out what is inside the Nowhere that is after Kit. Oh, and along the way they fall in love.
There are many things I liked about this book. First of all, it's diverse. There are people of color, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and people of all sizes. The world felt very well represented.
Kit and Emil are really sweet guys with flaws, that they overcome to love each other. There is a pretty intense attraction between them, and their chemistry and sexual tension are done well. Emil is more the strong protector type, who looks at Kit, who always seems to be fighting for his life in the Nowhere, and gets spit out tired and starving, and he takes care of him. Kit is more scrappy - orphaned at a young age, he has had to fight to survive. His fight continues at Emil's facility, where Kit hides out to try to figure out what is happening in the Nowhere. He meets Emil's entire team, and while it took me a bit to figure out everyone and settle down on who is who, the team plays a big part in this book.
It does slow down a bit in the middle - but overall there is a lot of action and a nice romance journey. There will be a book two with the same cast, but there is a solid HEA in this one. A nice sci-fi read - I like this author's voice a lot.
Grade: B
July 12, 2021
I initially started reading this assuming it was YA/NA. I'd thrown it on my Kindle a few weeks ago and couldn't remember anything about it by the time I got around to opening it. Then around 10% there's a variation of the sex pollen trope, and I had to pull back to recall I'd gotten this as a freebie thanks to following romance reviewers who post about deals. This is for sure an "adult" book, haha. So, I had to readjust my expectations about genre and I'm not entirely sure I succeeded. Rounding up to 3* because if I'd had my romance glasses on from the start I would have given some of the stuff that annoyed me a pass, I think. This is definitely a notch above most cookie-cutter romance/erotica I've read, and the things I'm complaining about happen in most books in the genre tbh, including ones I've felt more warmly about. So this is a cranky review for a solid book of its type. View the rest accordingly.
On the positive side, this is good sci-fi for erotica. Yeah, yeah, it's that joke about reading skin magazines for the articles, but I really do care about worldbuilding and plot. This is a satisfyingly solid futuristic, low-sci-fi setting with just enough explanation to ground the reader without going overboard with infodumps. I was fooled into thinking it was standard SFF during the beginning. You've got mysterious tech, shady corporations, crazy ~science experiments, nothing wildly original but still a very good setup for the action/mystery plot the book promises, even if it fails on the follow-through. The main dudes are both POC, alas still unusual enough for me to make a note of it, but a pleasant surprise. I also liked the found family aspect and how many queer characters there were. Did not love how the team was clearly series bait, but the secondary characters had relevant roles to play and moved the plot forward, which made the "there's gonna be a book about these ones, pls buy them!" vibe less obnoxious than usual.
However, I deeply dislike instalove, and random sex scenes bore me. These characters are inexplicably deeply attracted both physically and emotionally from jump and I never felt like there was a good reason by the time the "I love you"s rolled around. Which, okay. That's how the genre works 99% of the time. Fine. But I found the pacing of the romance and the pacing of the overall plot completely at odds with each other, two gears that weren't fitting together, and eventually the lack of synchronicity made the entire thing fall apart in a most unsatisfying way. "But genre" doesn't excuse that, IMO.
Sex scenes are like any other action in fiction, and they need a.) reasonable build up and b.) to be relevant to the story being told at that particular point in the book. I shouldn't look at one and wonder why it's happening. Not only was every sex/Emotional Feelings scene here boring, but they always interrupted some high-stakes event going on that suddenly ceased to matter because it was time for dick dueling or a heart-to-heart. How am I, as a reader, supposed to care about the peril the characters are supposedly in, when not even the characters care about it because they're busy taking their pants off? It was such a massive letdown because actually, I did care about the plot, and there was enough of one to care about it vanishing in the first place! I'm not sure pure romance fans will be a fan of how much time was spent on non-sexytimes, and people looking for plot will be let down at how often that element disappears. Honestly, after the extremely disappointing resolution to Evil Corporation Shenanigans, when it was obvious they were going to bone lovingly and declare their eternal love for each other etc., etc., I wasn't cheering for it or eager to see them get their HEA, I put the book down and lost any desire to keep going because I flat out did not care anymore. That is the opposite of what I wanted to feel! Plus, the mystery the book opens with? Doesn't get resolved here, so again, it's like - the emotional arc gets wrapped up (they're talking meeting the parents and declarations of love after having known each other for what, a week) but the plot... doesn't.
Random:
- Some of the granular details didn't make sense, or sense was sacrificed for Tropes. Being a runner takes a tremendous amount of energy and runners are described as having ravenous appetites after they come out of the Nowhere. If they're too weak, they can't travel. This is a known fact. Kit has been a runner for years. So why doesn't he ever carry around protein bars or some jerky or whatever for emergencies? Instead he has to stagger around so Emil can feed him or they can cuddle or whatever the hell. I get it from that perspective, but in-universe, it only makes sense if Kit is a complete idiot or if portable snacks somehow do not exist in this universe. The latter is demonstrably untrue, as we find out later in the book. Jury's out on the former.
- There are some continuity gaffes that an editor should've picked up, like when Emil is first told about Kit's runner friend and conjures up her full name and the crime she's famous for, and then a few chapters later he looks at her and is like "her name sounds familiar, no idea who she is tho".
- Not really a criticism, but there were CATS. I wish they hadn't been dumped out of the narrative once they stopped being plot useful!!! Are they okay? Where are they now! Did they get fed? Did they get all the pets after the (spoiler)? THIS WAS THE REAL CRIME OF THIS NOVEL, THE REFUSAL TO GIVE THE CATS ALL THE SCRITCHES THEY DESERVED.
- Caring about fictional pets is my passion.
On the positive side, this is good sci-fi for erotica. Yeah, yeah, it's that joke about reading skin magazines for the articles, but I really do care about worldbuilding and plot. This is a satisfyingly solid futuristic, low-sci-fi setting with just enough explanation to ground the reader without going overboard with infodumps. I was fooled into thinking it was standard SFF during the beginning. You've got mysterious tech, shady corporations, crazy ~science experiments, nothing wildly original but still a very good setup for the action/mystery plot the book promises, even if it fails on the follow-through. The main dudes are both POC, alas still unusual enough for me to make a note of it, but a pleasant surprise. I also liked the found family aspect and how many queer characters there were. Did not love how the team was clearly series bait, but the secondary characters had relevant roles to play and moved the plot forward, which made the "there's gonna be a book about these ones, pls buy them!" vibe less obnoxious than usual.
However, I deeply dislike instalove, and random sex scenes bore me. These characters are inexplicably deeply attracted both physically and emotionally from jump and I never felt like there was a good reason by the time the "I love you"s rolled around. Which, okay. That's how the genre works 99% of the time. Fine. But I found the pacing of the romance and the pacing of the overall plot completely at odds with each other, two gears that weren't fitting together, and eventually the lack of synchronicity made the entire thing fall apart in a most unsatisfying way. "But genre" doesn't excuse that, IMO.
Sex scenes are like any other action in fiction, and they need a.) reasonable build up and b.) to be relevant to the story being told at that particular point in the book. I shouldn't look at one and wonder why it's happening. Not only was every sex/Emotional Feelings scene here boring, but they always interrupted some high-stakes event going on that suddenly ceased to matter because it was time for dick dueling or a heart-to-heart. How am I, as a reader, supposed to care about the peril the characters are supposedly in, when not even the characters care about it because they're busy taking their pants off? It was such a massive letdown because actually, I did care about the plot, and there was enough of one to care about it vanishing in the first place! I'm not sure pure romance fans will be a fan of how much time was spent on non-sexytimes, and people looking for plot will be let down at how often that element disappears. Honestly, after the extremely disappointing resolution to Evil Corporation Shenanigans, when it was obvious they were going to bone lovingly and declare their eternal love for each other etc., etc., I wasn't cheering for it or eager to see them get their HEA, I put the book down and lost any desire to keep going because I flat out did not care anymore. That is the opposite of what I wanted to feel! Plus, the mystery the book opens with? Doesn't get resolved here, so again, it's like - the emotional arc gets wrapped up (they're talking meeting the parents and declarations of love after having known each other for what, a week) but the plot... doesn't.
Random:
- Some of the granular details didn't make sense, or sense was sacrificed for Tropes. Being a runner takes a tremendous amount of energy and runners are described as having ravenous appetites after they come out of the Nowhere. If they're too weak, they can't travel. This is a known fact. Kit has been a runner for years. So why doesn't he ever carry around protein bars or some jerky or whatever for emergencies? Instead he has to stagger around so Emil can feed him or they can cuddle or whatever the hell. I get it from that perspective, but in-universe, it only makes sense if Kit is a complete idiot or if portable snacks somehow do not exist in this universe. The latter is demonstrably untrue, as we find out later in the book. Jury's out on the former.
- There are some continuity gaffes that an editor should've picked up, like when Emil is first told about Kit's runner friend and conjures up her full name and the crime she's famous for, and then a few chapters later he looks at her and is like "her name sounds familiar, no idea who she is tho".
- Not really a criticism, but there were CATS. I wish they hadn't been dumped out of the narrative once they stopped being plot useful!!! Are they okay? Where are they now! Did they get fed? Did they get all the pets after the (spoiler)? THIS WAS THE REAL CRIME OF THIS NOVEL, THE REFUSAL TO GIVE THE CATS ALL THE SCRITCHES THEY DESERVED.
- Caring about fictional pets is my passion.
July 6, 2021
Good world building, quirky gifts - has these 'runners' who can run through space in seconds - nice crew. All in all a very satisfying and enjoyable space opera. Emile was a bit too perfect - but he knew that and didn't know how to make it better. Kit was delicious, all purple hair and ragged edges. I read it in a day and down loaded the second one the instant I finished this one. So I rate it a success! Always happy to find a new to me author!
Everyone is this book is bi or pan or straight or a bit of everything - it's a gender neutral kind of world. Our two mc, both male, start a relationship.
Everyone is this book is bi or pan or straight or a bit of everything - it's a gender neutral kind of world. Our two mc, both male, start a relationship.
December 12, 2021
I've only read one other novel that blends science fiction and m/m romance this well. (Taji From Beyond the Rings, by R. Cooper.) I am impressed.
Edge of Nowhere has great worldbuilding, and great characters with some serious internal conflicts. Weird challenges! Danger! Weirder danger! Also, trust issues, ethics, found family, blood family, and morals. Also, for those of you who dislike sex scenes, they are few and pretty easy to avoid. But though I am tired of the usual, I enjoyed them specifically because they were Kit and Emil. That's excellent writing.
Edge of Nowhere has great worldbuilding, and great characters with some serious internal conflicts. Weird challenges! Danger! Weirder danger! Also, trust issues, ethics, found family, blood family, and morals. Also, for those of you who dislike sex scenes, they are few and pretty easy to avoid. But though I am tired of the usual, I enjoyed them specifically because they were Kit and Emil. That's excellent writing.
August 24, 2019
Damn, this was pretty good...better than I expected, honestly.
August 1, 2018
A Joyfully Jay review.
4 stars
This was my first book by Felicia Davin and I was drawn into this story from the very beginning. Davin does an amazing job with the world building here, setting up such a fascinating story that is sort of a cross between science fiction and alternate world. What I think Davin does so well is make this world well developed and complex, but not so overwhelming that it isn’t accessible. This is particularly the case as the story delves more into the science behind the runners, the Nowhere, and what is going wrong. I found myself engrossed in following along with all the intricacies of how things worked and Davin just has created a clever and nicely developed world.
Read Jay’s review in its entirety here.
4 stars
This was my first book by Felicia Davin and I was drawn into this story from the very beginning. Davin does an amazing job with the world building here, setting up such a fascinating story that is sort of a cross between science fiction and alternate world. What I think Davin does so well is make this world well developed and complex, but not so overwhelming that it isn’t accessible. This is particularly the case as the story delves more into the science behind the runners, the Nowhere, and what is going wrong. I found myself engrossed in following along with all the intricacies of how things worked and Davin just has created a clever and nicely developed world.
Read Jay’s review in its entirety here.
December 6, 2019
Very fun!
This reads like the 2008 movie, Jumper, with Hayden Christensen. Except its a lot more gay. It had some narrative flaws but it was exactly what it promised which was a fun, queer space romance.
This reads like the 2008 movie, Jumper, with Hayden Christensen. Except its a lot more gay. It had some narrative flaws but it was exactly what it promised which was a fun, queer space romance.
January 13, 2019
I am going to try my very hardest to make a coherent review, because this book deserves a review that would explain to potential readers why they should read it. Other than OMG!! THIS BOOK, THE FEELS THE WORLDBUILDING, THE CHARACTERS, THE DIVERSITY OMG OMG YOU GUYS.
So, I'm going to try.
This is a sci fy romance book, m/m and it has explicit sex. I have not counted, but it has a very level number of male and female characters (you know, like in real life, what a notion!). It has all types of people of colour, shape, ethnicity, sexual orientation (or lack thereof).
All of these I say so we are all on the same page. If you have a problem with the above, this is not a book for you. Also, don't bother on the comments, I'm entirely uninterested in your opinion on the book, and likely, most things in life.
The wold building is detailed without going into excessive tech detail, or description, enough to create a mystery and launch the action. It is very well written, people that are meant to be friends, read like friends, their relationships are shown on the page and it all contributes to show this large cast of characters as 2 families, coming together due to circumstances. They are flawed and make mistakes and are funny and sweet and, above all, people. Kit and Emil are truly amazing characters and their characters' journeys make sense, their evolution into more rounded people that can love each other is developed with skill and subtlety.
The sex is super hot too.
I'm off to get Felicia Davin's other books.
So, I'm going to try.
This is a sci fy romance book, m/m and it has explicit sex. I have not counted, but it has a very level number of male and female characters (you know, like in real life, what a notion!). It has all types of people of colour, shape, ethnicity, sexual orientation (or lack thereof).
All of these I say so we are all on the same page. If you have a problem with the above, this is not a book for you. Also, don't bother on the comments, I'm entirely uninterested in your opinion on the book, and likely, most things in life.
The wold building is detailed without going into excessive tech detail, or description, enough to create a mystery and launch the action. It is very well written, people that are meant to be friends, read like friends, their relationships are shown on the page and it all contributes to show this large cast of characters as 2 families, coming together due to circumstances. They are flawed and make mistakes and are funny and sweet and, above all, people. Kit and Emil are truly amazing characters and their characters' journeys make sense, their evolution into more rounded people that can love each other is developed with skill and subtlety.
The sex is super hot too.
I'm off to get Felicia Davin's other books.
August 31, 2019
kit and laila and dax and emil and lenny and chávez...ohhhhh man i would die for you...kiss
June 26, 2021
DNFed at 56% because the answer to the mystery is painfully clear already, the romance is instalove and there’s not much nuance. It’s a pleasant enough YA-feeling book about upstanding good guys, greedy rich bad guys and science experiments gone wrong. Also, if you need lots of calories to jump, why wouldn’t you carry protein bars on you at all times?
I’m too old and well read for this. Again, it’s me, not the book.
I’m too old and well read for this. Again, it’s me, not the book.
August 7, 2021
From the moment I read the blurb for EDGE OF NOWHERE I was excited and what was supposed to be a few chapters of reading turned into finishing this book in one sitting. Felicia Davin's writing and storytelling flows quickly and I was sucked into the mystery, the world, and the characters from the very beginning. I'm a huge fan of science fiction romance and EDGE OF NOWHERE is one that certainly stands out from the rest. This is such an interesting world that's been created and I hope to find out more in future books. Though a lot is covered about the Nowhere and the work being done at Facility 17 I did want a bit more about the world overall. What is shared is weaved into the story nicely so that I never felt like I was getting an info-dump and though I wanted more there was still plenty to understand the world and how it worked.
The characters really set the tone for the overall story and I was so happy to see so much queer representation shown and in such a normal way. When authors write science fiction they are presenting a futuristic world and when diverse characters are left out it's like saying they don't exist in the future. That's not a problem in this book and it's filled with all the diversity one would expect to see in a future world. Both heroes were great but Kit was definitely my favorite. He has a strong wall around his heart but his actions speak louder than his unspoken words. After an orphaned upbringing Kit is used to keeping people at a distance but even he can't stand by when he figures out what's really going on at Facility 17. He might be a smuggler who works with criminals but there's a core of honor inside Kit that he tries to hide but it slowly emerges as the book goes on.
Emil is the quintessential protector always thinking about others and concerned with his team. This makes him a great leader but also means he's very focused on duty. From the beginning Emil is taking care of Kit but in a way that's sincere and caring instead of patronizing. Though Emil and Kit are quite different they fall in love pretty quickly and though circumstances can advance feelings, for their sake, I wish they had more opportunities to just be together. The romance may be fast but I felt like Kit and Emil really came to understand each other by the end of the book and they truly find comfort in each other . I can't wait for more books in this series!
ARC provided by the author for honest review
Content Warning: Kidnapping and starvation of secondary characters
The characters really set the tone for the overall story and I was so happy to see so much queer representation shown and in such a normal way. When authors write science fiction they are presenting a futuristic world and when diverse characters are left out it's like saying they don't exist in the future. That's not a problem in this book and it's filled with all the diversity one would expect to see in a future world. Both heroes were great but Kit was definitely my favorite. He has a strong wall around his heart but his actions speak louder than his unspoken words. After an orphaned upbringing Kit is used to keeping people at a distance but even he can't stand by when he figures out what's really going on at Facility 17. He might be a smuggler who works with criminals but there's a core of honor inside Kit that he tries to hide but it slowly emerges as the book goes on.
Emil is the quintessential protector always thinking about others and concerned with his team. This makes him a great leader but also means he's very focused on duty. From the beginning Emil is taking care of Kit but in a way that's sincere and caring instead of patronizing. Though Emil and Kit are quite different they fall in love pretty quickly and though circumstances can advance feelings, for their sake, I wish they had more opportunities to just be together. The romance may be fast but I felt like Kit and Emil really came to understand each other by the end of the book and they truly find comfort in each other . I can't wait for more books in this series!
ARC provided by the author for honest review
Content Warning: Kidnapping and starvation of secondary characters
February 15, 2020
solid 3 stars. I liked the main romance and the SF setting (near future, cool premise around essentially teleportation), but toward the middle about 10 new characters got introduced which I found really hard to keep track of and it took some of the enjoyment out of it for me.
August 17, 2018
I was drawn in from the start. Kit and Emil are lovable and the side characters are likable and witty. This Sci-Fi Romance is very gripping and a world tht is new and interesting.
March 21, 2019
4 stars, but closer to 4.5. This story was really quite close to perfect for me.
Edge of Nowhere has a very, very readable writing style. It was a compelling mystery and excellent detail in the world-building to support the science fiction setting. The romance was paced to move at the same pace as the mystery elements, giving proper levels of cause to the desire to fix or address a crisis with the love interest at each twist in the mystery plot. The bisexual and sexually fluid characters were handled with skill. I was pleased to see that the past relationships were addressed, the present one appropriately developed, and both the process of acceptance of queerness and acceptance of the whole person were integral to the character's self-image and behavioral reactions.
Edge of Nowhere has a very, very readable writing style. It was a compelling mystery and excellent detail in the world-building to support the science fiction setting. The romance was paced to move at the same pace as the mystery elements, giving proper levels of cause to the desire to fix or address a crisis with the love interest at each twist in the mystery plot. The bisexual and sexually fluid characters were handled with skill. I was pleased to see that the past relationships were addressed, the present one appropriately developed, and both the process of acceptance of queerness and acceptance of the whole person were integral to the character's self-image and behavioral reactions.
March 28, 2019
This is like if that movie Jumper were actually good or interesting. Actually, think of it as happening in a world where the whole Jumper thing took place over a decade ago and everybody knows it’s a thing now. Another possible comparandum is the Terry Pratchett/Stephen Baxter Long Earth series, due to the nature of the jumps, though to avoid spoilers I’m not going to go into detail about the nature of reality in that series vs. this one.
It is also Very Adult in places, so gird (or ungird, who am I to judge?) your loins.
It is also Very Adult in places, so gird (or ungird, who am I to judge?) your loins.
July 12, 2018
THIS WAS DELIGHTFUL! Sci-fi romance is not something I've read much of, and now I need to find out if this is a genre I've somehow totally missed. Delightful characters, thoughtful worldbuilding, all the stuff I'm used to getting from Felicia Davin, but also a really lovely romance and the teasing of a heist to come in the next book (I HOPE). Also a low-gravity sport with rules that make no sense in the best way.
GIVE ME BOOK 2.
GIVE ME BOOK 2.
March 22, 2021
A terrific love story set against a moderately futuristic backdrop, interwoven with compelling sci-fi. I enjoyed the moral issues the characters wrestled with, the team dynamics (I love a good team story), and the fact that a story featuring people who can jump through space using folds in reality didn't turn into a glamorized superhero saga. I'm looking forward to book 2.
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August 12, 2018
I was given this ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Kit Jackson is a runner, who can travel through the Nowhere in an instant and usually uses this ability to export items illegally. Emil Singh is working for Quint, who is trying to create a group of runners for his own gain, disguised as a lab on an unknown satellite.
The story gripped me from the start to the end. There was a space 2/5 of the way through that was slower, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the physics and the simplified explanations. I loved the characters, especially Emil and Kit. I can't wait to read the next installment!
Kit Jackson is a runner, who can travel through the Nowhere in an instant and usually uses this ability to export items illegally. Emil Singh is working for Quint, who is trying to create a group of runners for his own gain, disguised as a lab on an unknown satellite.
The story gripped me from the start to the end. There was a space 2/5 of the way through that was slower, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the physics and the simplified explanations. I loved the characters, especially Emil and Kit. I can't wait to read the next installment!
November 25, 2018
I enjoyed this book and the sci fi concept of the nowhere.
Side note: I was a little off-put by the ending, mainly because I didn't realize this was the first book in a series. As the first book, it didn't have a true ending, providing closure to that portion of the story.
Side note: I was a little off-put by the ending, mainly because I didn't realize this was the first book in a series. As the first book, it didn't have a true ending, providing closure to that portion of the story.
June 10, 2019
Started out interesting. Then became a bit campy. Then became really mushy. Then the scifi part disappeared. Then I disappeared.
August 22, 2019
A fairly decent start to a new sci-fi series by a new author (to me). I would buy the next title in the series.
January 24, 2023
Series: Nowhere #1
Rating: 4 stars - It was really good
This was a fascinating and very unique world! Felicia Davin has done a wonderful job creating an interesting world and pairing it with wonderful characters. This is a future Earth with a group of people called Runners who can use the Nowhere to travel all over the world and into space almost instantly. This book does a great job at setting up this world, explaining the Nowhere, and the experiments going on in Facility 17 involving the Nowhere.
Emil and Kit were wonderful characters. Kit is a Runner who is tasked with bringing Emil to Facility 17 but during the jump they are knocked off course and thrown into another realm. This starts the events that lead to the truth about what Facility 17 is actually doing with their experiments. Kit was a wonderful character who had very strong barriers around his heart. I loved seeing Kit learn to trust Emil and open up to his adoptive parents.
Emil is a botanist for Facility 17 and quickly realizes after the failed jump that more is going on at the facility than what his team is being told. Emil is an extremely protective man who is always trying to take care of his team, and Kit. From the very beginning, Emil is constantly trying to take care of Kit and look after him, which is so sweet and wonderful. I loved seeing this protective man fall for Kit.
The best part of this book was how much queer representation was present. This is a future world where we know for sure queer people are accepted without any prejudices at all. That’s not to say this world doesn’t have its own prejudices though, because there is prejudice against Runners. Overall, this was a very complex and fascinating world. I loved these two characters and look forward to seeing what happens next in the Nowhere.
Trigger Warnings: accidental high from plant; emotional manipulation by foster parents; kidnapping; starvation; experimentation on humans (with and without consent); prejudice;
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Rating: 4 stars - It was really good
This was a fascinating and very unique world! Felicia Davin has done a wonderful job creating an interesting world and pairing it with wonderful characters. This is a future Earth with a group of people called Runners who can use the Nowhere to travel all over the world and into space almost instantly. This book does a great job at setting up this world, explaining the Nowhere, and the experiments going on in Facility 17 involving the Nowhere.
Emil and Kit were wonderful characters. Kit is a Runner who is tasked with bringing Emil to Facility 17 but during the jump they are knocked off course and thrown into another realm. This starts the events that lead to the truth about what Facility 17 is actually doing with their experiments. Kit was a wonderful character who had very strong barriers around his heart. I loved seeing Kit learn to trust Emil and open up to his adoptive parents.
Emil is a botanist for Facility 17 and quickly realizes after the failed jump that more is going on at the facility than what his team is being told. Emil is an extremely protective man who is always trying to take care of his team, and Kit. From the very beginning, Emil is constantly trying to take care of Kit and look after him, which is so sweet and wonderful. I loved seeing this protective man fall for Kit.
The best part of this book was how much queer representation was present. This is a future world where we know for sure queer people are accepted without any prejudices at all. That’s not to say this world doesn’t have its own prejudices though, because there is prejudice against Runners. Overall, this was a very complex and fascinating world. I loved these two characters and look forward to seeing what happens next in the Nowhere.
Trigger Warnings: accidental high from plant; emotional manipulation by foster parents; kidnapping; starvation; experimentation on humans (with and without consent); prejudice;
You can also find my reviews at Red-Haired Ash Reads.
January 21, 2019
This one was great! Another good surprise, after Skyward.
I have to say that I loved the storyline and all the mistery around this group of scientists. In this world, things like reality are something that some humans are capable of escape from. Runners are people who has the ability to move between places: between countries, houses, blocks or even planets, just crossing to the Nowhere, the space behind other spaces.
Of course, this ability is wanted for different kinds of tasks, legal or not so much. So, runners, like Kit, one of the main characters, have the option to live as obedients workers for the government or private companies, or live just outside the reach of law.
Is not easy to be a runner, wanted for everyone. But Kit's life gets even harder when he crosses paths with Emil, part of a space mission that investigates the Nowhere.
Of course, investigate is only the beginning of what happens in this space facility. And I loved the characters, their dynamic and chemistry, as everything gets harder and harder. Of course, the end only shows thar everything can get a lot worse, and I just hope that the good intentions do not end up with a great cost.
Along this story, we get to know a lot of characters, a cast full of diversity that I just loved. Yes, it has an m/m romance as the main relationship, but it doesn't ends there. Love can take a lot of forms, and in here, friendship and romance are well written and developed.
What do we have, in the end? A mistery, secrets, all sorts of dangers and, among all that, love and growth for the characters. Just great.
I have to say that I loved the storyline and all the mistery around this group of scientists. In this world, things like reality are something that some humans are capable of escape from. Runners are people who has the ability to move between places: between countries, houses, blocks or even planets, just crossing to the Nowhere, the space behind other spaces.
Of course, this ability is wanted for different kinds of tasks, legal or not so much. So, runners, like Kit, one of the main characters, have the option to live as obedients workers for the government or private companies, or live just outside the reach of law.
Is not easy to be a runner, wanted for everyone. But Kit's life gets even harder when he crosses paths with Emil, part of a space mission that investigates the Nowhere.
Of course, investigate is only the beginning of what happens in this space facility. And I loved the characters, their dynamic and chemistry, as everything gets harder and harder. Of course, the end only shows thar everything can get a lot worse, and I just hope that the good intentions do not end up with a great cost.
Along this story, we get to know a lot of characters, a cast full of diversity that I just loved. Yes, it has an m/m romance as the main relationship, but it doesn't ends there. Love can take a lot of forms, and in here, friendship and romance are well written and developed.
What do we have, in the end? A mistery, secrets, all sorts of dangers and, among all that, love and growth for the characters. Just great.
August 18, 2018
I likened the runners in this book to that of the time travelers in the 2012 movie Looper. The runners had the ability to travel through the Nowhere (open space in the universe) to get wherever they wanted. In this book, Emil and his team has voluntarily taken part in a experiment to test if runners van be created as opposed to born? But something goes wrong in the facility and one of the lead scientist is involved in an accident. Emil just happens to come across it and in the process knocked out. Not knowing if he was the cause of the accident he is than taken in by the higher ups to be questioned. This raises some questions in Emil's eyes. Kit is a runner who gets pulled in when he's hired to bring Emil back to the secret facility he works at. But the run doesn't go as expected and the two find themselves with more questions than answers.
I liked the chemistry between Emil and Kit, the interaction Emil had with his team and just the mystery of what was going on in the facility, what was wrong with the Nowhere and the blue balls of light . Emil's protectiveness over everyone and especially Kit was cute.
A free copy was provided to me in exchange for an honest review.
I liked the chemistry between Emil and Kit, the interaction Emil had with his team and just the mystery of what was going on in the facility, what was wrong with the Nowhere and the blue balls of light . Emil's protectiveness over everyone and especially Kit was cute.
A free copy was provided to me in exchange for an honest review.
August 12, 2021
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I was in the mood for something outer spacey, and this super cute queer romance fit the bill for sure. Our one hero is Kit, who has a rare teleportation ability and a mysterious background and an adorable found family! Our other hero is Emil, a large botany nerd who runs a crew on a space station doing weird experiments with the stuff Kit teleports through! Also, there are some cats! Pretty much everyone in this book is queer (Emil is definitely bi and I had the vague impression Kit was as well), the romance is cute, the adventures are fun, there is maybe a little too much made-up science about teleportation but it becomes relevant to the plot so whatever. This is the first of a trilogy and I am immediately starting book two. A-.
I was in the mood for something outer spacey, and this super cute queer romance fit the bill for sure. Our one hero is Kit, who has a rare teleportation ability and a mysterious background and an adorable found family! Our other hero is Emil, a large botany nerd who runs a crew on a space station doing weird experiments with the stuff Kit teleports through! Also, there are some cats! Pretty much everyone in this book is queer (Emil is definitely bi and I had the vague impression Kit was as well), the romance is cute, the adventures are fun, there is maybe a little too much made-up science about teleportation but it becomes relevant to the plot so whatever. This is the first of a trilogy and I am immediately starting book two. A-.
August 10, 2022
Interesting
Its a sci-fi story about people who can travel through the corridors between different realities called runners. Its an interesting idea. There are good guys, evil scientists, evil corporations, and cats.
The characters are likeable. Emil is an almost " too perfect" good guy who likes order and the gym. Kit is the crazy dressing runner who likes messes and who doesn't like commitment. I guess this opposite attracts them. It works so far with their budding romance in this story.
In the beginning of the story Kit and Emil are knocked into another reality by a ghost in the Nowhere. This leads to mystery that needs to be solved and it uncovers horrible evil experiments being done to unwilling people.
Its a decent beginning to a series.
Its a sci-fi story about people who can travel through the corridors between different realities called runners. Its an interesting idea. There are good guys, evil scientists, evil corporations, and cats.
The characters are likeable. Emil is an almost " too perfect" good guy who likes order and the gym. Kit is the crazy dressing runner who likes messes and who doesn't like commitment. I guess this opposite attracts them. It works so far with their budding romance in this story.
In the beginning of the story Kit and Emil are knocked into another reality by a ghost in the Nowhere. This leads to mystery that needs to be solved and it uncovers horrible evil experiments being done to unwilling people.
Its a decent beginning to a series.
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