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From the author of We Are the Ants comes “another winner” (Booklist, starred review) about a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as things he remembers are being erased from others’ memories.

Tommy and Ozzie have been best friends since the second grade, and boyfriends since eighth. They spent countless days dreaming of escaping their small town—and then Tommy vanished.

More accurately, he ceased to exist, erased from the minds and memories of everyone who knew him. Everyone except Ozzie.

Ozzie doesn’t know how to navigate life without Tommy, and soon he suspects that something else is going on that the universe is shrinking.

When Ozzie is paired up with the reclusive and secretive Calvin for a physics project, it’s hard for him to deny the feelings developing between them, even if he still loves Tommy.

But Ozzie knows there isn’t much time left to find Tommy—that once the door closes, it can’t be opened again. And he’s determined to keep it open as long as possible.

At the Edge of the Universe eBook Shaun David Hutchinson

I have no words to explain the level of awesome in this book, but I will try.

First of all, I'm so thankful to Jellybooks for giving me an advanced electronic copy to read. Last year I read We Are the Ants and it became one of my favorite books of 2016. I was eager to read anything else by Shaun David Hutchinson. I'll be buying a physical copy of this beautiful book as soon as it's released.

I have so much love for this book. It follows Ozzie, a boy who exists in a universe where all trace of his boyfriend has been erased from everyone he knows. Throughout the story, Ozzie theorizes on the reasons why this happened, as well as trying to figure out why the universe keeps shrinking in size. On top of adoring Ozzie, I fell hard for all of his friends and family. Ozzie's best friend, Lua especially stole my heart, my lovely gender-fluid rockstar. And Dustin, who I'm pretty sure was ace, also stole my heart. And Ozzie's brother, Renny. I mean, even Calvin was a small cinnamon roll, and I loved them all.

So aside from the characters, there were strong friendships and relationships that constantly shifted, and it all made sense, even though it shouldn't have. As the universe shrunk, Ozzie's world kept changing. It was frustrating, but also so relatable. I felt the same when I read We Are the Ants. It's one of those stories where you're aware something is off with the metaphysical world, but it makes perfect sense with the way you've felt mentally. It's hard to explain, but the author does beautiful things with his stories.

I don't think there's much of a plot to this book, which added so much more depth. It's a story about relationships, romantic and platonic. It's a story about love, loss, growth, courage, and moving on. It's about opening your eyes to the people in front of you, and showing them compassion and love. It's about life and death and the nothingness at the edge of the shrinking universe. As Ozzie lost traces of the life he'd always known, I mourned my own personal losses. When you lose a loved one, sometimes it feels as if the universe swallowed them whole.

I'm sad to have finished this book simply because I wanted to continue living in Ozzie's universe, as scary as it sometimes was. I wanted the story to go on. I'm looking forward to revisiting this book many times in the future. I think that's a trend with all of Hutchinson's books, actually. I think he's now one of my favorite authors.

I definitely recommend this to everyone. I would understand if other people didn't feel as strongly about this book. It resonated with me, but I don't expect it will with everyone. It's a very unique type of book. I'm glad I found it.

(Also, just have to mention the amazing, totally unexpected cameo of a certain pair from We Are in the Ants. It was a nice touch. It had me smiling like an idiot.)


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At the Edge of the Universe eBook Shaun David Hutchinson Reviews

As I read in Hutchinson's authors note, he's not one to shy away from topics of mental illness. And that comes across in this novel extremely respectful, truthful, and representative. And the struggles these characters go through aren't just a checklist to make characters seem more interesting, they're developed aspects of them as people, as part of their histories and personalities. This is a book about life, about finding yourself, and discovering what's important to you. And I'd be lying if I didn't say I was fighting years the entire last act. Beautifully written and wonderfully told.
The universe is shrinking and history is rewriting itself, and you don't know it because everything you are, and everything you remember, is being rewritten too. But what of you remembered the way things were supposed to be, the only one to remember? What if the guy you were in love with ceased to exist, and no one remembered except you? What would you do? How would you cope? This books is epic and beautiful, and I'm so sad that it's over. Love spec sci-fi and the surrealism of this. Love the gay characters and the romantic relationships. Love the friendships. Love the complexity of Lua, who is destined to be a rockstar, and who is also gender fluid. Also, the character dealing with being sexually abused by a teacher is handled carefully, realistically, and is devastating. Everything about this book puts Shaun Hutchinson on my automatic must-buy list forever.
What a remarkable book. I am a longtime fan of YA/LGBT books, and thus I am also fully aware of the tropes, the recurring similarities that are part of their very nature. I tend to be indulgent of all that sameness, and focus mainly on the author’s writing and his/her character development.

What struck me most, as I read through this substantial novel during a long series of flights across the United States, was that this has the classic YA/LGBT set-up but is in fact something a great deal more complex and thoughtful than a typical book of this genre. What at first seems to be a teen romance with a sci-fi overlay gradually reveals itself to be an existential exploration of what it is to be a teenager; and not just a gay teenager. It is a book that will make adult readers stop and think and relive the pain of their own teen years in interesting ways.

Oswald Pinkerton’s boyfriend, Tommy Ross, has disappeared. What’s worse, nobody, including Tommy’s parents, seems to remember that he existed at all. To make matters stranger, Ozzie has discovered that the universe is shrinking—fast.

What does all this mean? Well, the key is to look past the intense, witty character of Oswald Pinkerton, and to pay attention to the cast of characters around him his older brother Warren, his parents, his best friends—the gender fluid Lua and the adopted Asian genius Dustin. There’s even the standard YA jock bully Trent and the emo loner Calvin. And, of course, the vanished boyfriend, Tommy, who is mixed-race, as well as his mother. These folks are not just window dressing to bolster the spotlight on Ozzie. As it turns out, these characters are essential to the overall impact of Hutchinson’s story, although that didn’t completely dawn on me until quite close to the end.

Hutchinson weaves his tale of teen drama and (apparent) paranoia so deftly, that he deflects your attention from the real point, slowing turning up the anxiety and emotion, until a startling (yet, in retrospect, somehow obvious) reveal shatters the arc of the plot while simultaneously tying it all together.

It is poetic, and quietly terrifying. I found myself on the verge of tears almost constantly in the last part of the book, as the first real glimmers of understanding hit me. Hutchinson has written a story that seems to be about one very interesting gay teenager, but really turns out to be about each of us, in one way or another.
I have no words to explain the level of awesome in this book, but I will try.

First of all, I'm so thankful to Jellybooks for giving me an advanced electronic copy to read. Last year I read We Are the Ants and it became one of my favorite books of 2016. I was eager to read anything else by Shaun David Hutchinson. I'll be buying a physical copy of this beautiful book as soon as it's released.

I have so much love for this book. It follows Ozzie, a boy who exists in a universe where all trace of his boyfriend has been erased from everyone he knows. Throughout the story, Ozzie theorizes on the reasons why this happened, as well as trying to figure out why the universe keeps shrinking in size. On top of adoring Ozzie, I fell hard for all of his friends and family. Ozzie's best friend, Lua especially stole my heart, my lovely gender-fluid rockstar. And Dustin, who I'm pretty sure was ace, also stole my heart. And Ozzie's brother, Renny. I mean, even Calvin was a small cinnamon roll, and I loved them all.

So aside from the characters, there were strong friendships and relationships that constantly shifted, and it all made sense, even though it shouldn't have. As the universe shrunk, Ozzie's world kept changing. It was frustrating, but also so relatable. I felt the same when I read We Are the Ants. It's one of those stories where you're aware something is off with the metaphysical world, but it makes perfect sense with the way you've felt mentally. It's hard to explain, but the author does beautiful things with his stories.

I don't think there's much of a plot to this book, which added so much more depth. It's a story about relationships, romantic and platonic. It's a story about love, loss, growth, courage, and moving on. It's about opening your eyes to the people in front of you, and showing them compassion and love. It's about life and death and the nothingness at the edge of the shrinking universe. As Ozzie lost traces of the life he'd always known, I mourned my own personal losses. When you lose a loved one, sometimes it feels as if the universe swallowed them whole.

I'm sad to have finished this book simply because I wanted to continue living in Ozzie's universe, as scary as it sometimes was. I wanted the story to go on. I'm looking forward to revisiting this book many times in the future. I think that's a trend with all of Hutchinson's books, actually. I think he's now one of my favorite authors.

I definitely recommend this to everyone. I would understand if other people didn't feel as strongly about this book. It resonated with me, but I don't expect it will with everyone. It's a very unique type of book. I'm glad I found it.

(Also, just have to mention the amazing, totally unexpected cameo of a certain pair from We Are in the Ants. It was a nice touch. It had me smiling like an idiot.)