On the Edge of Gone

by Corinne Duyvis

Book Overview

A thrilling, thought-provoking novel from one of young-adult literature's boldest new talents. January 29, 2035. That's the day the comet is scheduled to hit--the big one. Denise and her mother and sister, Iris, have been assigned to a temporary shelter outside their hometown of Amsterdam to wait out the blast, but Iris is nowhere to be found, and at the rate Denise's drug-addicted mother is going, they'll never reach the shelter in time. A last-minute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419719033
• ISBN13: 9781419719035
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 13 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12

Customer Reviews

On the Edge of my Seat

The world is ending, its a fact that humanity has been able to try and cope with for months. A comet is going to hit the Earth. People need to either be on spaceships bound for Earth-like planets or a shelter and hope they can survive. Denise and her family have a temporary shelter they can go to, but at this point, they're going to be too late. That is, until they find a generation ship that hasn't left Earth yet. That's where On The Edge of Gone begins. At first I was apprehensive about this book because I normally don't like apocalyptic media, but this is not an apocalypse movie, which may be why people claim nothing happens for 200 pages. Things do happen in the beginning, but in comparison to the comet and tsunami that happens in the first 100 pages or so, people may be annoyed it's more character based. Speaking of the characters, I loved the cast and even the secondary characters, I wanted them to succeed and live in this apocalypse (Apocalypse novels are weird like that, some times th eantagonist isn't evil, which I think makes for a better story. It's just humans acting out of survival, not wanting to hurt strangers, but putting strangers first). I loved Denise and loved how her autism wasn't an after thought; it was a clear constant throughout the novel and showed how her dealing with the apocalypse was different than others. Really overall, the novel showed how easy representation is to include, mentioning someone's hijab or that they're sitting Shiva, it's a quick way of making your characters not cis, straight, white, Christian, and abled and I loved it throughout the novel. It also made it clear how other books are lacking. Again, I loved this novel and I recommend it to people who don't usually read apocalypse fiction. Also to everyone else. Everyone should read this. It's just fantastic.