At the Edge of the Universe, by Shaun David Hutchinson → Start Date: May 25, 2017

[Vicki]

Please join Trisha and me when we read this one.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Thank you so much for making all these threads Vicki!!

[Vicki]

No worries, Trisha! ;o)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

plan to start Saturday!

[Vicki]

Sounds good :)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

i lied. I moved this one to Friday lol

it's okay, I won't speed through it friday or anything. but I think it's a longer one (at least 450 pages)

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

I was hoping to start this one tonight but I think I'm too tired
I'll hopefully (fingers crossed) start tomorrow....

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Vicki, do you have this one??

should we kick this date out? I'm good either way!

[Vicki]

No, it hasn't arrived. Actually, I checked yesterday & I have 5 books that are not in the system, one is lost (not this one), and I'm waiting on a couple so kicking it out would work!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

woop! perfect!

Is later in the month okay?

how about 5/25?

[Vicki]

Yes, that should work. That's the day before my last day of work!! Woo hoo!

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

Yikes, sorry, got a jump on this one today! It was the only book I had in the car when I went for an appointment....so I started...

No chapters, so I went about 100 pages

stopped at 5,560,000,000 LY

Calvin(view spoiler)[ I'm thinking Trent hurt him. He either raped him (or something close) or he actually cared for Trent and Trent used him. (hide spoiler)]

Tommy(view spoiler)[ So.......if he really existed, how would the whole town pull of lying to him?
OR....how would Calvin know about him too if he didn't really exist? (hide spoiler)]

Ozzie(view spoiler)[ tough name, but I like him so far (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

LOL No worries, Trisha, but what a strange stopping place. Maybe I'll understand when I start.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

hahah!! Right?! We don't have chapter numbers......so you'll see once you start reading. The BIG number counts down

I'm holding off reading more, though, until the official start date :D

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

around 200 page mark 255,024 AU

Calvin(view spoiler)[ I really like him but I'm not so sure his explanation for why things change is completely truthful
I did love his confession of his crush too (hide spoiler)]

Tommy(view spoiler)[ Oh my gosh, I can't figure out what's really going on here. (hide spoiler)]

Ozzie(view spoiler)[ I feel so bad for this kid. he really is struggling to keep the memory of Tommy alive. (hide spoiler)]

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

around 300 page mark 382,011 KM

Trent(view spoiler)[ what a jerk. he's been a jerk the whole freaking book. I hope he tries to stop being a jerk and start admitting that he's maybe curious about Lua (hide spoiler)]

Tommy(view spoiler)[ i'm still really torn here. I don't know what's real... (hide spoiler)]

[Vicki]

Would this book possibly fit for the genre challenge for

"Space Opera: A subgenre of speculative fiction or science fiction that emphasizes romantic, often melodramatic adventure, set mainly or entirely in space, generally involving conflict between opponents possessing powerful (and sometimes quite fanciful) technologies and abilities." ?

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

um....no lol
no space.

[Trisha, lives on coffee]

and I'm done!!

Ozzie(view spoiler)[ ah, I guess it makes a little sense. His world really did a shift when Tommy broke up with him - they really were almost unhealthy.
I liked how he coped with it all in the end
and I'm sad Calvin and he were not a real thing - not in this universe anyway - but I'm glad Ozzie is seeing who he can be (hide spoiler)]

Trent(view spoiler)[ it makes sense that coach was hurting him. I knew he was acting out and was overly mean about things
the coach storyline was awful and I'm glad he got caught (hide spoiler)]

all in all, i really liked this one!