“This series grips you by the throat and refuses to let go—and you’ll be begging for more the entire time.” — Sierra Simone, USA Today Bestselling Author
Over the Edge, the stunning conclusion to the “intensely sexy” and “mind-blowing” Edge Series by New York Times bestselling author CD Reiss is available now!
The epic conclusion to the intense and dark Edge Series.
Limits tested.
Boundaries shifted.
Descend into sanity.
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This is Caden and Greyson's final story.
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About CD Reiss:
CD Reiss is a New York Times bestseller. 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.
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This review is by far the most difficult I've had to write. This entire series is far above my reader scale, so I hope I don't fall short in my attempt to analyse it.
The story is so large and so loaded, it has its own trajectory. Like a meteor hurtling towards the earth, the inevitable annihilation approaching, i could feel the crisis building up, climax almost writhin reach and yet I didn't know how it would end, the continuous mystery kept the danger alive and pulsating. it's heavily pregnant with fatigue and stress that the military personnel go through on a daily basis, the root cause of PTSD. This up, close and personal view is scary and dreadful and substantiates the immediate need to end the fruitless wars all over the world. The aftermath in losses and damages are just not worth it.
“If you took my arms and legs away, I’d know who I was.
Take my eyes, my ears, I’d still be me. But my sanity?”
“Who am I?”
Brain is merely 2% of total body weight,but the most complex and still uncharted and understudied organ of the human body. I can almost visualise christine with a magnifying glass, studying her subject matters' brains with a forceps in hand, looking in folds and crevices, pulling out threads of thoughts from their minds. She certainly has the ability to analyze and scrutinise shreds of emotions lying hidden in the nooks and crannies of the personality which could easily be overlooked by a simpler author, yet Christine's professional eyes catch them.
She was out of her mind. Free of sound judgment. Listening to voices that wanted her to act without thinking.
The difference between us was that for the moment, I was sane.
Are you? Are we? Are any of us?
Greyson has volunteered to be in clear and present danger at the end of book 3, the repercussions can be felt in this book. Threat is looming large like a sandstorm in this final chapter of the series. The sentiments are running amok, Greyson is edgy and shifty. Caden is feeling helpless and incapable. His lack of knowledge puts him on a back foot of competence, so confidence is his only tool to fight against this invisible enemy threatening to explode in Greyson's body and ultimately destroying their marriage.
My ignorance without confidence would break me.
Confidence without knowledge of my ignorance would break her.
Caden's love for her is unparalleled and indisputable. That's a given, but that also brings more responsibility and onus on him to protect her, not let go of her hand as she could be lost forever in the military experimental paperwork. I loved Caden and his dogged loyalty and sum total love that had him following Grayson over the edge of sanity, metaphorically and physically.
“You’re the one indisputable thing in my life.”
“The only thing I live for. It’s you, baby. You’re gravity. You’re the sky. You’re the air. You’re the first breath in the morning and my dreams at night. I’m sure of you because you’re mine.”
Oh to be the object of such a devotion!! You could climb mountains, fall from the sky, cross deserts, fight the demons wearing the kevlar of such all encompassing love. Caden holds her hand all the way into the darkness to pull her back into the light. I wish I could be Greyson for this book, even at the cost of losing my mind
“Who is it then? Because this is the real me. The other one is a shadow of me. Maybe a subset of things I haven’t done. Or have done. Or the bits I don’t like… or traits I don’t use… the waste all bundled up and shoved into the light. But she’s not me.”
Which brings me to the real malady. What if we could identify, seperate and seclude all the bad characteristics of our personalities and since we can't throw them out like garbage, we isolate them in a subdivision of our psyche. That part becomes an entity on it's own and what we have now is another personality living inside the same body.
Respite. A reprieve. A suspended sentence. And the name of mental discomfort. The name of its opposite.
It's one of the most toughest topic to even understand fully, Christine goes a step further and puts into a simpler context for us to decipher. I had to read hundreds of lines & passages twice, then pm her to feel & fully understand the intense impact of them
Her nuances are like pin pricks. They are physically just few mm in mass, but you can see the immense emotion and the sentiments hiding behind them. When Grayson talks about respite she says, "she's lying, Damon was unreliable, she's unreliable. she's manipulating you."
"she felt something, even if it was jealousy, it was something" /i>
Ahhhhhhh! That's the first thread, which Caden grabs and starts pulling. I swear i was shitting bricks as I raced towards the end, I didn't know how she will tie up the story, how does everyone get out of this fog !!!!. And then there's the heartstopping BOMBSHELL !!
I. Stopped. Breathing !.
**GASP ** GASP**GASP**GASP **
she did not......oh yes SHE DID😱😰! I couldn't believe what I was reading !!!
I'm dumbfounded! She makes me feel things that I didn't know I could feel she makes me see things I didn't know I could see and that's the ability of a genius author. Having said that, she also is pretty cruel when she toys with us, and her characters.
But what a fitting finale, a masterpiece comes to a deserving ending.
Of the characters, Caden is typically Reiss Alpha. He's take charge, strong, analytical, besotted man.
Greyson is strong, supportive, sacrificing and submitting. Her world is shielded by the blue sky, which resides in Caden's eyes. I mean how blindingly romantic is that!
But I have to mention here the unsung hero of the story. Older brother Jake. He's in the background but his sibling support and loyalty keeps him in the foreground always.
“I’ve been taking sniper courses. They make us think of them as targets. Not people. Like if we tell a part of ourselves that it’s really a person, it poisons the part that does the shooting. But I don’t know. I don’t know if I can do it. After this, I don’t know if I can lie to myself.”
Hats off, salute to him! He is a one man salvage and rescue team though things don't go as planned for Grayson, but that's a whole another story.
Everything was clear. And real. Clicking into place— Forgiveness matched with responsibility. Sorrow with hope.
Contentment with worry.
Death with love.
Acceptance with elation.
Caden with Greyson.
And for the record- you DIDN'T push the credulity too far in this or anything!💐
5 "Blue sky stars"
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