Monday, May 21, 2018

[Release Blitz & Book Review]: ROUGH EDGE by CD Reiss

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“My new obsession. I'm eating every word of this series and begging for more." 

— Alessandra Torre, New York Times bestselling author

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New York Times Bestseller CD Reiss goes back to her roots with a dark, intense tale that breaks boundaries and shatters expectations in Rough Edge.
Who do you love?
The decent man you married?
The surgeon shattered during the war?
The emotionless Dominant who appears in his eyes more and more often?
All of them?
Even when he breaks you?
Even when he makes you beg?
Is there no pain or pleasure he cannot deliver?
What will you sacrifice to heal him?
Will he sacrifice his sanity to protect you from the exquisite torture of his cruel hands?
This is more than a marriage.
It’s a crack at the edges of the mind and heart.
It’s a promise written in the heavens and a wound splitting the sky.
Love may be the death of both of you.

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Amazon Universal: http://mybook.to/RoughEdge
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About the Author
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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A brave endeavour by Reiss to delve into the psychological trauma of soldiers. Christine takes us behind the curtains of war into the realms of PTSD. It's not pretty at all. It's downright sinister and malignant.

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Drs. Grayson Frazier and Caden St.John are army doctors. He's a heart surgeon while she's a psychiatrist. They both finish their service and settle in Manhattan. Enviabley sexy, handsome couple, so deeply in love, considerate of each other's feelings, life should be smoothly successful and abundant for them.

“You know what I see when I look at you?”
“Your wife?”
“The worst decisions I’ve ever made, I made for a reason.
You. You rose out of the destruction.
Our life together will be built into the best from what survived the worst.”
 


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Alas, the dark memories of war somehow tentacle their way round their everyday peaceful existence and they start to grow into an entity that settles itself in the midst of their coupling like a third THING. It has it's own hunger, own agenda and own triggers. It grows and howls, remains in the periphery and sometimes jumps in their bodies to create havoc.

Every day, it got a little stronger. Every day I was a little more tense, a little more afraid , a little more uncomfortable. The Thing got harder to box away and cart off. Harder to hide behind a wall. Impossible to ignore . I was pressed in on all sides by a Thing I couldn’t even define. 

I don't wanna give anything away, since the essence of psychological thriller is in the mystery.
Christine is exploring very unpropitious territory. There are no set rules and limits, symptoms and cures(if there are any) are on case to case basis. The dark presence in this book, is very edgy, violent and though not malefic yet, is inauspicious for their marriage.

Every thought walked a razor’s edge between sanity and insanity, and the edge kept moving until I didn’t know which side was which. 

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How will it pan out and how will the "exorcism", for want of better word, take place, will keep me on tenterhooks. Cannot wait for book 2.
Just my own experience, maybe it's the first of 4 books, or the topic is very new and unrelatable to me, I felt a disconnect.
A remarkable start to a undoubtedly very tense story. Dealing with veritable disorder, very significant and very current, sometimes object of prejudice or ridicule, in some inappropriate hands, but I'm sure I'll emerge as a better informed and more knowledgeable of the dangerous traumas that are byproducts of uneccessary wars. 
4.5 "Major One More" Stars 

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