--- title: Review: Jeff Giles's The Edge of Everything description: What's a girl to do when she falls for an underworld-dwelling, superpowered bounty hunter tasked with wrangling sinful souls to a prison in the earth's... canonical: https://time.com/4649893/the-edge-of-everything-review/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-26T11:42:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:57:22.348Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Heartthrobs and Hellscapes in Jeff Giles's 'The Edge of Everything' og:description: What's a girl to do when she falls for an underworld-dwelling, superpowered bounty hunter tasked with wrangling sinful souls to a prison in the earth's... og:url: https://time.com/4649893/the-edge-of-everything-review/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Heartthrobs and Hellscapes in Jeff Giles's 'The Edge of Everything' twitter:description: What's a girl to do when she falls for an underworld-dwelling, superpowered bounty hunter tasked with wrangling sinful souls to a prison in the earth's... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Heartthrobs and Hellscapes in Jeff Giles's _The Edge of Everything_ > Sponsored content. 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The answer is in Jeff Giles’ new YA saga, [_The Edge of Everything_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1619637537/?tag=timecom-20), a novel as enjoyable for [teens](http://time.com/100-best-young-adult-books/) as it may be for older readers who gobbled up the likes of [_The Hunger Games_](http://time.com/4121206/hunger-games-ya-books/) or [_Twilight_](http://time.com/4053007/twilight-10-years/). The book opens on Zoe Bissell, a plucky 17-year-old Montanan who’s recently lost her dad and her beloved elderly neighbors in a string of freak accidents. As more catastrophe looms, lover boy “X” shows up on the scene and saves Zoe and her little brother from an evildoer, capturing the teen girl’s heart in the process. Zoe emerges as a badass heroine with a heart of gold who can navigate the boundaries of good and evil while maintaining a sense of humor: “Do not even make fun of my star-crossed supernatural love,” she chastises a friend. With imagination and verve, Giles delivers the goods required by the genre, creating a swoonworthy love interest with a sense of justice and old-fashioned charm. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4649893/the-edge-of-everything-review/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4649893/the-edge-of-everything-review/"},"headline":"Heartthrobs and Hellscapes in Jeff Giles's The Edge of Everything","datePublished":"2017-01-26T11:42:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:57:22.348Z","description":"What's a girl to do when she falls for an underworld-dwelling, superpowered bounty hunter tasked with wrangling sinful souls to a prison in the earth's...","url":"https://time.com/4649893/the-edge-of-everything-review/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4649893/the-edge-of-everything-review/","name":"Heartthrobs and Hellscapes in Jeff Giles's The Edge of Everything"}}]}] ```