ON THE EDGE
by CD REISS
"I promised you a bed of rose petals." He grabbed my hand under the table, tightening his grip as if he were falling from a precipice and our connection was the only thing saving him from certain death.
"They were beautiful."
"You smell like apples. Roses were wrong." There was nothing soft about his tone, but his quiet words were for me alone. "I want everything to be right for you."
"Caden, look at me."
I caught his gaze and held it. He was confident. Arrogant. Sure he had a place in the world. And under that was the man who needed me to be that place.
"If I could…" He smiled and shook his head at a silly thought he wanted to dismiss but couldn't-a contradiction in keeping with the whole man I married. "If I could write my love in the sky, it wouldn't be big enough. I'd run out of room. I'd fall out of the air trying to say it all."
He was saying it all.
Every day.
And he was falling out of the sky to do it.
"You're the beating heart of my life. You're the blood in my veins."
If I thought Rough Edge had a 'rough' ending....On the Edge left me feeling exactly that: on the edge!!! OMGosh, what an ending. My heart was beating, my mind was racing, and my curiosity is piqued!! The way she writes these books, these endings, I am craving so much more and looking forward to starting the next one!! Completely twisted up right now wondering what could possibly be happening next!
Once again, Reiss's descriptions were so tactile and vivid. I saw everything. I tasted everything. I smelled, felt, heard it all as if I were there. To be able to not only have every sensory aroused with her words, but to feel all those emotions as if they were personally affecting me? Wow. Just wow. I was once again drawn in, completely addicted to this story that was taking me on a crash course in the depth of one's love for another, no matter the circumstances. Heavy, deep storyline. Wow.
"The kiss wasn't a kiss yet, and he owned me. Every touch was devotion and care. He took nothing for granted, and as a result, I was swept up in a whirl of his attention."
I literally want to crawl inside her brain (morbid!!) and see how she works!! How does one come up with this kind of story; the depth and the crazy, the heartbreak and the desire?? What a painful reality that Greyson has to deal with that I am not even sure I could pretend to accept....or learn to deal with. I couldn't begin to fathom the fear, let alone the turmoil of this crisis she was living through and dealing with. Her husband is one of the most intense men I've ever read, but he has a side of him that I love exploring through the pages of these books. I am completely mesmerized with the culpability that Caden feels for everything going on, yet there is so much more that we are exploring little by little with each new chapter Reiss brings us that I read with wonder as I turn the pages. Seriously...woah.
"If you're ever in the darkness again, don't ever doubt that I love you."
There is so much to ponder with this story as a whole. The what-ifs are astronomical. I can't even begin to imagine how I would deal with this type of mental invasion and be so collected about it. I think my favorite part about this book/series is the rate of information coming at me that is so overwhelming, and some of it, I'm strong enough to admit, confuses me. But that's why I cling to the story as deeply as I am. I want to read both sides and not have a bias, and the way Reiss set it up and delivered this one, it allowed me to read it with a certain amount wonder and intrigue, but also with a confident sense of concentration. Yes, my mind is racing the entire time.
I am thoroughly enjoying this series and I can't wait to jump into Broken Edge to find out what happens next. Total wide-eyed curiosity over here. These are quick, easy reads that will allow you to lose track of time while you are watching everything unfold. The discovery alone is amazing. I am so excited to start the next one!!!
"I wasn't important without you. I didn't even exist if you didn't."
~BEE
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(FREE and can be read anytime before book 3)
~MEET CD REISS~
CD Reiss is a New York Times bestselling author. She still has to chop wood and carry water, which was buried in the fine print. Her lawyer is working it out with God but in the meantime, if you call and she doesn't pick up she's at the well hauling buckets.
Born in New York City, she moved to Hollywood, California to get her master's degree in screenwriting from USC. In case you want to know, that went nowhere but it did give her a big enough ego to write novels.
She's frequently referred to as the Shakespeare of Smut which is flattering but hasn't ever gotten her out of chopping that cord of wood.
If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.
~CONNECT WITH CHRISTINE~
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