What if your husband came home a different man?Caden has shifted so far from the man Greyson married that she doesn’t know who her husband is any more. Is he the man she fears and desires? Or the swoon-worthy romantic she distrusts?Was he always both?Searching for the cause and the cure, the mystery brings Greyson to the heart of the US Army — an organization she once called home. There, she … organization she once called home. There, she finds an old friend whose soul may be beyond redemption, and whose need to make a difference may be the key to her husband’s identity.
Just when Caden and Greyson think they have it under control, duty calls and unless Greyson makes a dangerous sacrifice, they’ll be split forever.
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The Edge
Cutting Edge (prequel)
Rough Edge
On the Edge
Broken Edge
Over the Edge
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What am I reading!
My head is in a spin of epic proportions and I am so on board with that. CD Reiss has ignited something in me with this series and with each book I read I just want to bow down at her feet and pledge my undying love for this woman.
On The Edge is taking us further into the very complicated life of Caden and Greyson. It’s dark, it’s raw, totally memerising and absolutely mind blowing. CD Reiss you are an absolutely wicked evil genius. I don’t want to spoil it for you so the less said………
My only advice is start at the beginning.
Read it!
Devour it!!
Love it!!!
We continue on with Greyson and Caden’s story. And let me just say that this series so far has me on the edge of my seat. I don’t know what to expect and when the unexpected happens, BOOM I’m completely in AWW over it.
I have to say that as the series keeps developing, it just keeps getting better and better. I can’t imagine living a life with my partner the way Greyson is. She’s a tough little cookie in knowing how to handle her husband and what she’s going to expect out of him. At first she is confused by his behavior but when she has a little chat with her friend and her brother, they determine what the problem is with Caden and with that, Greyson kind of figures where she needs to go from that point on and how to handle this man.
If you like books that will give you a total adrenaline rush then this is definitely the series for you. CD Reiss so far has me completely enraptured in this series and I cannot wait to see where Greyson and Caden will lead us to with this extraordinary thriller.
4.5 stars!
On The Edge is hands down one of the best books CD Reiss has written to date. Quite honestly it is a modern masterpiece. I could not put this book down. It has haunted me for days. My head is been reeling. I don’t want to give any spoilers so I will not discuss the turn of events that unfold in this 2nd installment of The Edge Series. But be forewarned, have some tissues and a bottle of wine handy…your going to need them. Enjoy!
Ahhh, what the heck is going to happen now?! I’m really liking the whole buildup, and I can’t decide who I want more, Caden or Damon. I kind of feel bad for Greyson. I’d feel wrecked if I was her.
Book 2 in a 4 part series…..
*Book 1 was the introduction to a huge revelation.
*The Prequel set the stage of how this story started.
Book 2……..well it just solidifies the dark, sexual, troubling, volatile and loving relationship of Greyson and Caden and their life as they adjust to being civilians. The secrets and the dysfunctions are front and center and are enveloped in shades of gray. It’s shocking and disturbing at times as well as endearing and heartfelt. Emotions are taken on a wild roller coaster ride and sometimes it’s nauseating as well as thrilling. But mark my words, Book 2 squeezes your gut and never lets go!!!!
This series has a major twist. You learn about it in Book 1. But to discuss aspects of that spoiler would be a disadvantage to a reader. You, the reader, should experience the twist as you read the book. So my review ends here. Just know that when reading a CD Reiss book…. the passion, intensity, and sometimes depravity are worded in extraordinary beauty. She writes with a lyrical prowess that ignites a story beyond measure. The Edge Series is darkness and emotions at its best. A mind trip to rattle, grip and seize your emotions and well being.
This story ends of a cliffy of course. A cliffy that sets your imagination on fire trying to figure out scenarios for Book 3 that I’m sure will squeeze my gut even tighter than Book 2. CD Reis is both brilliant and depraved all rolled into one. A must read series so far!!
This book…..this series….cannot be described in words. Caden and Greyson came home from the war but their personal war is not over. Their love for each other is so strong, it’s painful. Literally. You can’t describe this story without giving things away so I’m not going to try. If you are looking for a story that’s hearts and flowers, happy wife, happy life-this is not it. This is gritty and tough and hard to get thru at times. But so worth reading. Christine Reiss has this way of sucking you in. You hold your breath, you think you know what’s going to happen…..but then there’s a new twist, a new turn. I absolutely love this series. I love Caden and Greyson, praying for their HEA. Can’t wait for the next book to come out. It’s an emotional roller coaster and I’m on for the ride.
Sometimes words just aren’t adequate to describe my response to a story. This 4-book series, The Edge, is MIND-BLOWING, twisty and absolutely amazing, and I am totally and completely addicted. CD Reiss amazes me with her intricate, complex and layered plot that blends an epic love story with a psychological thriller, and her storytelling will leave you breathless. You NEED to be reading this. The next book, Broken Edge, releases July 10, and it cannot come soon enough.
ARC provided, but this review was voluntarily and honestly written.
NUMB. TWISTED.MADNESS. That’s what I think of this book, in a nutshell. The abyss of unending and conflicting emotions continued as I delved into Greyson and Caden’s world. My theories kept changing, and I suspect, devolving. Thanks for the basket of feels, Christine D. Reiss. The intensity of this series continues…
Here’s a quickie review.
If you thought Rough Edge left with you a mind fuck, well On the Edge will leave you stabby.
I am going to be vague.
Who did Greyson marry?
Can she help the man she married?
What does 9/11, the war in Iraq and other things have to do with Caden’s situation?
See what I did there? So many more questions.
CD Reiss has really taken this series on a whole different and new level that I am floored and excited to see what will happen in Broken Edge.
Having Caden suddenly morph into Damon almost turns Greyson inside out. Where Caden is cold, calculating and confident, Damon is warm, open and caring. Searching for answers and a way to fix him/them only seems to lead to more questions. Realizing Caden has dissociative disorder is a step in the right direction. Meanwhile Damon is trying to figure how to operate, literally at times, in Caden’s world and Caden’s jealousy of Damon’s time with Greyson drives him to becomw more sadistic with her. Damon knows trying to keep Caden at bay is a losing proposition. Greyson is a woman stuck in a psychological menage with two men who are the same yet so different. Finally confiding in her friend Jenn and brother Colin, they come up with another piece of the puzzle. Caden appears at sun up and Damon at sun down. Greyson also figures out this split in Caden started as a child and became full blown the one time he went out into the battlefield and came back in a fugue state. Caden quit the Blackthorne Project and agreed to see a dissociative disorder specialist and Greyson feels they may be headed in the right direction when the worst possible thing happens. Caden is called to active duty.
This book is as equally mesmerizing and enthralling as the first. Emotions run high and reactions are raw for these characters. At times, the storyline was positively gut wrenching and powerful as Caden/Damon continued in a downward spiral and Greyson tries desparately to navigate her husband’s condition while jkeping her own sanity in check.
This book!!!! OMG, it’s just amazing and raw and intense and it just drags you in, holds you hostage until your done. It is absolutely fascinating to watch Caden/Damon and how Greyson is dealing with the whole situation. CD Reiss is a writing genius!!!
This book…this series…holy hell everything about it is absolutely intoxicating!
The continuation of Greyson and Caden’s story had me in a constant state of intrigue and panty melting arousal once again. This complex, brilliant plot has me questioning everything. Has tested every boundary I thought I had and left me starved for more!
Keeping my review spoiler free is a legit struggle at this point. So much has been revealed about these magnificent characters, their backgrounds and relationship. Every aspect so thoroughly and intelligently articulated. I gasped in surprise. Panted while turned on. Rubbed my chin in contemplation. CD Reiss is so freakin’ talented I had to highlight words and look up the meaning while reading. Honestly that just doesn’t happen. Not because I am uber smart. No, it was because she chooses these amazing, uncommon words and I am addicted. I love this. Every word in every paragraph of this utterly intense, sizzling series!
Gah bring on book 3 and 4. I need my next fix. I am consumed with wonder. Must know how this story plays out.
I could not put it down. I think it’s breaking me! Greyson is a mess. Caden is lost. It’s like clockwork and so very self-destructive. My heart is breaking for Caden the man, the child. And even more so for Greyson because she loves so deeply and he’s just not capable since the war.
This book is about self-preservation for Greyson, and even for Caden but in a completely different way.
The ending?! My heart is literally broken. For her. For him. For them.
Books three and four cannot come soon enough. I cannot even anticipate the twists and turns that are yet to come after those in book two.
Even after finishing the last page of On The Edge, the continuation of Greyson and Caden’s story, the analytical nerd in me is still quite confounded with the dysfunctional and disturbing events that played out on the pages of the second book in The Edge series, and while I’m left feeling quite bereft due to the lack of answers provided, extending my already long list of questions, I can’t help but be in awe of the psychological warfare that CD Reiss has created for her characters and her readers to experience, and let me tell you, we all are lost in the mind-bending chaos that has become a part of Greyson and Caden’s lives.
What’s most interesting to me is the fact that amidst the twisted and toxic environment that the couple seems to live in, the sexual side of Greyson and Caden’s life is hotter and bolder than it’s ever been, allowing Greyson to unleash her sexual desires on an incredibly willing partner to the point that I can’t believe the heat doesn’t resonate from the pages of their story.
Sometimes I feel like a depraved lunatic because I’m obsessed with this couple, with understanding who they are and how they, especially Greyson, deal with the clusterfuck that has become their lives; I find myself meticulously analyzing the words that they say as well as the actions they take in order to understand any granules of truth that can be found, but I have NOTHING! Nothing that, I believe, leads me in the right direction because I seem to be going around in circles, acquiring little insight into how to find the path that Reiss is leading her characters as well as her readers. But because Reiss crafted Greyson and Caden’s story with multiple and complex layers as well as a psychological aspect that constantly manipulates the plot line as well as the mental state of its characters, which makes it almost impossible to understand the causes or the repercussions of Caden’s psyche and what and who Greyson must endure as she tries to stand by the man who needs her to be his safe place.
The title of book three seems to me extremely telling of where Reiss is taking her highly dysfunctional but incredibly intriguing couple…Broken Edge has several implications for Caden and Greyson and while I know I’m probably not prepared for just how fractured these two will be, I’d willingly endure it in order to unearth several of the questions that threaten to drive me batty until I know their answers.
4.5 Poison Apples
“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.”
Greyson and Caden are a love bigger than the sky…. the kind of love that is all consuming, so much so, that if one of them were broken apart that love would remain stronger than ever, maybe different for each broken part but no less consuming! And the other would do whatever it takes…. risk breaking their own self and go to the farthest edge to save the other, to save their all consuming love!! Their love, their war, it all keeps escalating with twists and turns between sanity and madness until it feels like that edge their on is at risk of crumbling to devastation or maybe they’ll fall in to perfect completion???
I feel like I’m trying to figure out a thrilling puzzle, one where I have the “EDGE” pieces and know when it’s complete it’s going to be a masterpiece (the kind of puzzle you want to frame and keep forever) but those beautifully flawed middle pieces are yet to be found or revealed….. Yeah my mind is completely “on the edge” and I’m loving every second of it!!!!
Holy Smokes!!! This series is one of the most intense series I have ever read!! boy, oh boy, does his book have the right title!! I was on the edge the entire time I was reading this installment in Greyson and Caden’s journey. OMG!! CD Reiss blew me away with this one. I did not expect any of the events that occurred in this one. Wow!! I knew Greyson and Caden were on a serious journey in trying to overcome the challenges being presented to them in their marriage, but this challenge is above and beyond. What do you do when the challenge comes from within? When the challenge is a struggle that the one you love is trying to battle from within, but continues to pull you into the struggle, because you are the one thing in that person’s world that helps to ground the person, but also causes the person some of the deepest and darkest struggles? This is the challenge that Greyson and Caden face. It is a real fight that they are engaged in to try to save their marriage, as well as each other.
On the Edge is absolutely brilliant. CD Reiss has done her research for this one. This chapter in the series will leave you stunned and wanting even more than Rough Edge did. If you have not started this series, please do. Wow!! The ride that I am on with Greyson and Caden is not one that I want to get off. I have been ensnared in their web of complication and love since I started reading Rough Edge and On the Edge only has me even more entrapped.
This. Series.
Words can’t really capture how riveting it is. I’m still reeling. I’m still asking myself – what the Hell did I just read. It’s taken me days to be able to sit down and compose some coherent thoughts I’m so affected by this story and the latest developments in On The Edge. Ms. Reiss walks the fine line between deconstruction and dismemberment as she peel back the layers of Caden and Greyson, showing us the depth and richness of these characters, and tells us the story of their marriage. On the Edge is a seemingly quiet interlude after the chaos of war which anchors the early part of the story, cocooned in the brownstone that is both refuge and house of horrors. With every stroke of the pen and revelation, the reader gasps and our fascination grows. Caden and Greyson fit together like pieces of a puzzle, but it’s a puzzle that keeps shifting and changing shape, as the effects of their war time experiences are revealed. It’s so complex yet the depth of their love makes it all so simple. The characters Ms. Reiss has created are so vivid, deep, complex and relatable. They burrow into your soul and haunt your dreams. That is the mark of a master storyteller. Brava Ms. Reiss.
I NEED BROKEN EDGE NOW.
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I just can’t even begin to imagine being in Grayson’s situation!! Do you feel guilty? Do you feel angry or cheated….or even worse, occasionally relieved?? And Caden….how does he deal with all this? This book brings out all the emotions and confusion and feelings…oh my goodness!! I cannot wait to see how this all plays out, because that ending!! This book is going to make you feel everything imaginable, and then it’s going to make you wait on pins and needles for the next book to see what happens….but it’s worth it!!
5 “I’ve put my fingers on your heart and felt it beat.” Stars
Like many of of this author’s brilliantly told, psychological stories, I have no idea how to review this particular piece of work because I have no idea what in the name of anything is going on. The above quote I’ve titled this review with holds especially important to me as a reader. It shows the very tight yet withering tether of the cord connecting this to characters. It’s literal, this actually happened and the very precarious nature of having done this so accurately describes the very precarious nature of their relationship. While I don’t know how to review this, I do know I loved every twisted, toxic, sordid word of On the Edge. The whole thing from prequel through this book has been absolutely intoxicating. It’s different, it’s edgy (pun intended), it’s dark, it’s confusing, it’s blatantly sexual, and it’s powerful, desperate love surrounded in a cloud of mental instability, brilliance, and deep shadowed pasts.
“Everything could shatter.”
The importance of this quote compels me as much as I find it ironic. C.D. Reiss uses her words and phrases deliberately, keeping you hooked. This one, to me, because everything in the lives of Caden St. John and Greyson Frazier is in fact shattering. I don’t know how. I don’t know the true catalysts or the true meaning of why. I’m learning as much as I’m being entertained. And that’s the true beauty of this story. It’s a mind trip unlike any other but you’re completely consumed much like Greyson appears to be throughout the story. I applaud C.D. Reiss for this unique story and her intricately, delicate, and layered way of telling it. There’s a lot here and it’s not for the figuring out, really. It’s for the consummation of your mind while reading it. The journey here is not easy, it’s not light and fun, it’s intriguingly dark and psychological and beatifically complex but that doesn’t give this particular blowing of the mind any less impact. I’m completely invested in these characters and this author’s story of them. And I can’t wait for more.
It’s hard to review an early book in a series, and I’m not one to give a blow by blow of the plotline in a review, so I’ll leave you with some thoughts.
Caden and Greyson’s life together didn’t start out in a normal, boy meets girl, they go on dates and fall in love, kind of beginning. No. Their together, started out in wartime, bloody, traumatic wartime. What they brought back with them and how their “happily ever after” is affected is heartbreaking.
Thus far, this series is like a puzzle. We’ve managed to put all the outside pieces together and we have our frame and there in the middle, floating without a tether, is the heart. The pieces of Caden and Greyson’s love have fit together so well, but with all the twists and turns are we even sure all the pieces are still there?
I’m not a huge fan of cliffies, and if you’re not you may want to wait for the final release. This story is raw and psychologically stimulating (trying to keep it clean here..LOL) and it leaves you anxiously searching for the next piece, because we’re dying to see the full picture.
Whether you start now or wait for the final release, I highly recommend you don’t pass up this series.