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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?
305 pages, Paperback
First published July 31, 2018
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Felicia Davin
15 books198 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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August 6, 2025
Feelings were chaotic and terrifying and inconvenient.
Oof, another fantastic book that languished in my TBR way too long!
Fun, exciting, geeky, SciFi romance, with an evil corporation and villainous scientists.
And sex pollen in the form of new world berries! But Emil had to pull his considerate consensual crap and ruin everything. 🙄
Every time those fingertips brushed his lips, Kit’s urge to swallow more than just the berries got a little stronger. He wanted to lean forward and take two of Emil’s long, thick fingers into his mouth.
AND! And just the other day I was making a list of subgenres that don't often get mixed, and I was thinking it would be interesting to read a Scifi sports book.
May I introduce you to–
"Low-gravity asteroid hockey soccer," Lenny said, in his most serious voice. "Or as I like to call it, the beautiful game.”
This was fucking hilarious and it's played on a basketball court, with rules made-up on the fly, drinking is encouraged (don't drink too fast or too slow or spill), you can leapfrog other players, and you can't actually win. 🤣
"Implying that hockey soccer is not a sport is disrespectful," Lenny said. "Implying that drinking games are somehow inferior to sports is also disrespectful.”
The points system–
"Two thousand to Jacob McCreery for cat-burglary levels of stealth, three thousand to Miriam Horowitz for that beautiful shot, five hundred to Caleb whatever-your-last-name-is for bringing some fresh-faced optimism into this tragically jaded crowd, and ten thousand to Lennox Malcolm Beck III for leapfrogging me and not spilling a drop!"
Felicia Davin has a very very cool ('cool' here means geeky, nerdy, wordy) website and newsletter where she bedazzles with word origins and recommeds books I wouldn't normally be interested in, but sound great.
All of their books are on Kobo+ or buy them on Smashwords!
He’d even started keeping the gross candy that Laila and Travis both loved—chocolate-covered wafers called Zings that looked good on the outside but contained some kind of red-dyed, cinnamon-and-cayenne-flavored syrupy goo that made your mouth go numb—but he supposed he could throw them away now.
I am oddly repulsed and interested in this candy thing. Also, isn't it interesting that using the word 'goo' makes something sound disgusting or unpalatable, but 'gooey' is normally associated with amazing things, like caramel or fluffernutter sandwiches.
Tags: SciFi romance, futuristic, year 2093, bi rep, sex pollen, accidentally high, trapped in a closet, huddling for warmth, pining, friendship, found families, goofy made-up sports, goofy made-up physics, sinister corporations, teleportation, space, plant nerd, fast-track relationship that doesn't feel all that fast, purple hair, POC MCs, hand-feeding, Tennessee, asteroid living, 9-year age difference (21 & 30), dual POV
MC Names: Kit & Emil
Oof, another fantastic book that languished in my TBR way too long!
Fun, exciting, geeky, SciFi romance, with an evil corporation and villainous scientists.
And sex pollen in the form of new world berries! But Emil had to pull his considerate consensual crap and ruin everything. 🙄
Every time those fingertips brushed his lips, Kit’s urge to swallow more than just the berries got a little stronger. He wanted to lean forward and take two of Emil’s long, thick fingers into his mouth.
AND! And just the other day I was making a list of subgenres that don't often get mixed, and I was thinking it would be interesting to read a Scifi sports book.
May I introduce you to–
"Low-gravity asteroid hockey soccer," Lenny said, in his most serious voice. "Or as I like to call it, the beautiful game.”
This was fucking hilarious and it's played on a basketball court, with rules made-up on the fly, drinking is encouraged (don't drink too fast or too slow or spill), you can leapfrog other players, and you can't actually win. 🤣
"Implying that hockey soccer is not a sport is disrespectful," Lenny said. "Implying that drinking games are somehow inferior to sports is also disrespectful.”
The points system–
"Two thousand to Jacob McCreery for cat-burglary levels of stealth, three thousand to Miriam Horowitz for that beautiful shot, five hundred to Caleb whatever-your-last-name-is for bringing some fresh-faced optimism into this tragically jaded crowd, and ten thousand to Lennox Malcolm Beck III for leapfrogging me and not spilling a drop!"
Felicia Davin has a very very cool ('cool' here means geeky, nerdy, wordy) website and newsletter where she bedazzles with word origins and recommeds books I wouldn't normally be interested in, but sound great.
All of their books are on Kobo+ or buy them on Smashwords!
He’d even started keeping the gross candy that Laila and Travis both loved—chocolate-covered wafers called Zings that looked good on the outside but contained some kind of red-dyed, cinnamon-and-cayenne-flavored syrupy goo that made your mouth go numb—but he supposed he could throw them away now.
I am oddly repulsed and interested in this candy thing. Also, isn't it interesting that using the word 'goo' makes something sound disgusting or unpalatable, but 'gooey' is normally associated with amazing things, like caramel or fluffernutter sandwiches.
Tags: SciFi romance, futuristic, year 2093, bi rep, sex pollen, accidentally high, trapped in a closet, huddling for warmth, pining, friendship, found families, goofy made-up sports, goofy made-up physics, sinister corporations, teleportation, space, plant nerd, fast-track relationship that doesn't feel all that fast, purple hair, POC MCs, hand-feeding, Tennessee, asteroid living, 9-year age difference (21 & 30), dual POV
MC Names: Kit & Emil
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 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 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
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 12, 2021
This book had me totally hooked from the beginning. I loved the world building - runners are such a cool concept, I want to be one! I found the writing to be so engaging I couldn’t put this down. The characters were charming. I loved the beautifully depicted diversity of the characters, both in space and on Earth. After flying through this, I jumped straight into number 2.
June 12, 2024
3.5 stars
This is probably more a sci-fi with a romance plot than an actual genre romance. The plot itself was enjoyable, the world building was solid, the cast was good and I really liked both MCs as characters.
The romance however is fairly limited. There's some depth but things go so fast between them and their connection feels quite instant though this is never really justified by any worldbuilding element as it can be in paranormal genres. It ends on a HFN, solid enough, but...I wanted more. It felt incomplete, but the sequels are about different couples, so that's all we get.
Most of the conflict is external to the couple which I do like and overall I thought this was cleverly written. It kept me guessing for a while, and as someone who previously read SFF rather than romance, I quite liked this, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to someone looking for romance.
This is probably more a sci-fi with a romance plot than an actual genre romance. The plot itself was enjoyable, the world building was solid, the cast was good and I really liked both MCs as characters.
The romance however is fairly limited. There's some depth but things go so fast between them and their connection feels quite instant though this is never really justified by any worldbuilding element as it can be in paranormal genres. It ends on a HFN, solid enough, but...I wanted more. It felt incomplete, but the sequels are about different couples, so that's all we get.
Most of the conflict is external to the couple which I do like and overall I thought this was cleverly written. It kept me guessing for a while, and as someone who previously read SFF rather than romance, I quite liked this, though I wouldn't necessarily recommend it to someone looking for romance.
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.
October 30, 2023
Nice Escape
I really enjoyed the warmth in the relationships represented in this story. The science was key to the plot and well done, but this was essentially a character driven story. There was some "insta-love" which I consider lazy writing and a few instances where the emotional conflict created did not ring true, but all in all this was a quick and fun read.
I really enjoyed the warmth in the relationships represented in this story. The science was key to the plot and well done, but this was essentially a character driven story. There was some "insta-love" which I consider lazy writing and a few instances where the emotional conflict created did not ring true, but all in all this was a quick and fun read.
August 24, 2019
Damn, this was pretty good...better than I expected, honestly.
June 1, 2024
After reading thousands of books, it's almost impossible to surprise me with a plot. Edge of Nowhere surprised me with it's fresh and inventive take on teleportation and alternate realities. Very well done!
The characters are well defined and they develop organically as part of the story. This is a subtle skill that transforms a story for me. Again, very well done!
The characters are well defined and they develop organically as part of the story. This is a subtle skill that transforms a story for me. Again, very well done!
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.
February 20, 2025
Kit was afraid to speak aloud what he’d seen—a man, trapped and screaming—because it sounded so crazy. And yet this was his life: teleportation, asteroids, other realities. What was one more thing in the mix? Why not a tortured ghost? [loc. 1966]
Kit is a runner, which means he can teleport to any coordinates he's given, usually with some illicit package, or a mob boss's gift (a stressed and vomitous dog) to his girlfriend. Runners, who teleport by moving through a dark featureless space called the Nowhere, are rare: they've made limited space colonisation possible. Dr Solomon Lange, a scientist working at QSF, an orbital facility in lunar orbit, has vanished while running experiments on the Nowhere: the sole witness to the accident, Emil Singh, has been thoroughly questioned by Quint Services. Now he's due to be returned to QSF, sedated and blindfolded -- and Kit is the runner chosen to transport him. But the Nowhere isn't empty...
Edge of Nowhere is an effective combination of M/M romance and science fiction. Emil is a sensible botanist who's loyal to his team, while Kit is a purple-haired, flamboyantly-dressed orphan who lives under the radar, mostly working on the wrong side of the law, unwilling to trust anyone. As Quint Services' nefarious schemes come to light, and Kit is menaced by some kind of entity in the Nowhere (could it be connected to the 'poltergeist' that haunts QSF17?), both men have to reassess their assumptions and prejudices -- and consider the possibility of a multiverse.
I liked this enough to immediately buy the sequel. There is a delightful (though outrageously neglected) cat named Niels Bohr; a former pop star who runs a bar with her wife; some extremely extra fashion choices; a lightly-sketched future (the end of the 21st century) in which climate change seems to have destroyed New York City; an appalling techno-trillionaire; and a light sprinkling of romance tropes. The science-fictional side of the novel was satisfactory -- yes, the science of the Nowhere is a bit handwavy but that's as much to do with our viewpoint characters as with the underlying logic -- and the romance works nicely. I'm not sure who recommended this to me, but thank you!
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.
September 14, 2025
Thoroughly enjoyable.
May 19, 2023
From the moment I read the blurb of 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 in exchange for an 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 in exchange for an 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.
October 25, 2023
Excellent M/M SF w/appealing characters & intriguing world/plot
I enjoyed this well-written and well-proofread book, my first by Felicia Davin — it won't be my last.
Colorful Kit's armored heart and reluctance to consider ethics in favor of survival were understandable, and even Emil had a troubled past eventually revealed to Kit (and us readers) and his own ethical compromises. His wincing away from being called "perfect" is only natural; no one should put that expectation on someone. Their dynamic develops in believable ways, not without complications (of course), leading to a sweet ending on the personal front.
Kit's unofficial adoptive mothers are a delight, and the closeness and humor of Emil's diverse team (diverse in skills, personalities, backgrounds, sexualities, ...) worked for me.
This 'verse's near-instant travel via "Nowhere", the accessible-only-by-a-few transitional space between dimensions, was not a mere copy of McCaffrey's dragons' "Between" or any other such I've encountered, with its unfolding/different-"native"-foldings paradigm (though I *was* also reminded of the somewhat-similar ability demonstrated in Koontz's By the Light of the Moon).
Human nature being what it is, of course there are some who see a minority with an ability that makes them difficult to control as a perfect target for fear-based bigotry, and the criminality which those targets' reduced opportunity and fear of sanctioned abuse/exploitation produces is only used to justify worse.
The over-arching plot reaches a sub-resolution, though there are major threads left for subsequent books, both in dealing with the rest of the now-mainly-understood ominous results of the lab accident (no spoilers!) and in seeking justice and restitution from the company and its megarich head for their criminal abuses and deceits.
There's a brief (kind of weird) excerpt of book 2 in the end, which picks up where this one left off, but moving two characters we didn't get to see a lot of in book 1 into the lead roles. It'd cost me a couple dollars more than this one did, so I think I'll hold off for the moment. If I wind up needing a reread to refresh my memory, well, that wouldn't be a hardship, now would it?
I enjoyed this well-written and well-proofread book, my first by Felicia Davin — it won't be my last.
Colorful Kit's armored heart and reluctance to consider ethics in favor of survival were understandable, and even Emil had a troubled past eventually revealed to Kit (and us readers) and his own ethical compromises. His wincing away from being called "perfect" is only natural; no one should put that expectation on someone. Their dynamic develops in believable ways, not without complications (of course), leading to a sweet ending on the personal front.
Kit's unofficial adoptive mothers are a delight, and the closeness and humor of Emil's diverse team (diverse in skills, personalities, backgrounds, sexualities, ...) worked for me.
This 'verse's near-instant travel via "Nowhere", the accessible-only-by-a-few transitional space between dimensions, was not a mere copy of McCaffrey's dragons' "Between" or any other such I've encountered, with its unfolding/different-"native"-foldings paradigm (though I *was* also reminded of the somewhat-similar ability demonstrated in Koontz's By the Light of the Moon).
Human nature being what it is, of course there are some who see a minority with an ability that makes them difficult to control as a perfect target for fear-based bigotry, and the criminality which those targets' reduced opportunity and fear of sanctioned abuse/exploitation produces is only used to justify worse.
The over-arching plot reaches a sub-resolution, though there are major threads left for subsequent books, both in dealing with the rest of the now-mainly-understood ominous results of the lab accident (no spoilers!) and in seeking justice and restitution from the company and its megarich head for their criminal abuses and deceits.
There's a brief (kind of weird) excerpt of book 2 in the end, which picks up where this one left off, but moving two characters we didn't get to see a lot of in book 1 into the lead roles. It'd cost me a couple dollars more than this one did, so I think I'll hold off for the moment. If I wind up needing a reread to refresh my memory, well, that wouldn't be a hardship, now would it?
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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November 10, 2024
Sci-fi with found family, queer romance, evil corporations, and emotional healing. That's four of my favorite ingredients in one of my favorite genres, so really, what's not to love?
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