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Desire's Edge (Edge Novel Book 2) Kindle Edition
One woman discovers the freedom of giving in to desire in the latest from the author of Pleasure's Edge.
Sexual dominant Dante De Matteo knew Kara Crawford back in high school, but he never imagined her darkest fantasies would align so perfectly with his.
When Dante lands a job at Kara's law firm, intense desire draws them closer while deep-rooted fears threaten to pull them apart- unless they can
embrace both the pain and pleasure of love.
**Winner of the 2011 Holt Medallion Award!**
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBerkley
- Publication dateSeptember 6, 2011
- Reading age18 years and up
- File size599 KB
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~Rendezvous Books
"This book was fantastic... I will definitely be reading more of Eve Berlin."
~Under the Covers Reviews
"Berlin's got a knack for tight plotting and hot sex. A truly erotic romance that will keep readers squirming as they race toward the pitch-perfect climax."
~RT Book Reviews-4 ½ Stars!
"This is definitely a quick, steamy read that erotic fans will love."
~Bookaholics Romance Book Club
"...superb erotic romance... Eve Berlin provides a heated but poignant BDSM romance."
~Genre Go Round Reviews
From the Author
About the Author
As someone who has been involved in BDSM practice for much of her adult life, she relates in particular to her BDSM and kink stories, infusing them with her own truth about kink practice from her life experiences.
Eden has appeared regularly on Playboy Radio's 'Night Calls' and the Hollywood In the Flesh readings. She loves art, shoes, tattoos, reading smutty books, chocolate and sex, of course, not necessarily in that order.
You can visit her websites: EdenBradley.com or her group blog Smutketeers.com
Product details
- ASIN : B0052RDIFA
- Publisher : Berkley; 1st edition (September 6, 2011)
- Publication date : September 6, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 599 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 304 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,365,872 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #6,360 in Erotic Thrillers (Books)
- #8,063 in Erotic Suspense (Books)
- #13,287 in Romantic Erotica (Kindle Store)
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About the authors
New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Eden Bradley aka Eve Berlin has written erotic romance for Berkley, Bantam, Harlequin Spice, Samhain Publishing, Black Lace, Red Hot Romance, GTB Publishing, as well as indie publishing. Her work has been called "elegant, intelligent and sensual". Her novel THE DARK GARDEN was praised as "a masterpiece". More recently, her novella GIRL (Book One in The Training House Series) has repeatedly been called "phenomenal", and BDSM author Jenna Jacob said "Nothing has touched me like this since 'Story of O'". Her novels and novellas have been translated into 13 languages.
As someone who has been involved in BDSM practice for much of her adult life, she relates in particular to her kink stories, infusing them with her own truth about kink from her life experiences. Eden speaks regularly on BDSM psychology and practice, as well as s3x positive culture for women. A California native, Eden lives in Pennsylvania. She loves art, shoes, tattoos, her Boston Terrier puppy, chocolate, and reading and writing smutty books, of course, not necessarily in that order.
To find out more about Eden, her books, or her workshops, visit her online!
I write lush and sensual erotic romance. I adore erotic fiction with a touch of the dark side, but I'm still very much focused on the romance. I truly believe there's nothing better--or more important--than love!
I was taught to read at age three when I complained there were never enough adults around to read to me, and began to write when I was eight years old. I've written a number of erotic and romantic novels, novellas and short stories as my alter-ego, Eden Bradley, and my 'Edge' series books are now available with gorgeous, sleek new covers with the Eden Bradley name. You can find my Eden books at your local bookstores and the usual online outlets. You can find all of my books on my websites: www.EveBerlin.com or www.EdenBradley.com.
I also blog as both Eve and Eden with my fellow authors R.G. Alexander, Crystal Jordan and Robin L. Rotham as the Smutketeers. You can find us there: www.Smutketeers.com.
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You don’t have to be disappointed when reading this book though. (I never had my doubts thought…I mean the title sets that one up for you.) In this story, we welcome Kara and Dante. These two actually knew each other years before the setting of this story. Going to high school together, they both secretly actually were attracted to each other, but due to timing, they never acted upon their desires. Well now they get a second chance!
Years later they’re reintroduced at a friend’s party, and the attraction is automatically there. Like it never died down and they’re back in high school again. They don’t wait long this time though to act on their desires, thank god because I don’t like waiting!
They soon come to find out though, that they share more than just an attraction towards each other, but they actually prefer BDSM play. Kara has never gotten to truly experience this though in any of her previous relationships, regardless of her “need” to, in fact that last guy that she was with took off whenever the word spank was brought up. Thought she was some sort of freak, and of course that took a toll on her mentally, because with desires like these, she already felt as though she didn’t fit in. Guys can be such dicks sometimes.
Apparently though, running into Dante was good for her, because with his experience as a Dom, he gets to show her all the things that she has longed to experience. He gets to bring the freak out in her! And she is all for it. She even got to experience an orgasm just with him playing with her nipples. I didn’t even know that was possible!
They’re perfectly content with doing what they’re doing, playing and experiencing more and more of each other physically; but what they didn’t expect was to end up working together. Both lawyers, so both very powerful and stubborn people, Dante ends up getting a job at Kara’s law firm. But that doesn’t have to be so bad. In fact, they make the best of it, and meet each other now and then for some fun play time in his office.
Although they never have sex at their office, she does have multiple orgasms everywhere else it seems like. She has plenty of orgasms under his hand in his office, but she also has mind blowing orgasms in restaurants, at the club, almost in a taxi on the way home from the club, and once he can’t even wait until they make it home, they f*ck in his car in the office parking garage! Whew talk about hot! I haven’t read a scene about sex in a car since Fifty Shades Freed.
Another thing they didn’t expect was to fall in love. But with both of their pasts, her dick of an ex, and his college ex (which you’ll learn about what happened with her); they fight this tooth and nail! She doesn’t want to feel like a sissy for falling for someone and giving someone else that power over her, and he doesn’t believe that he’s capable after what he’s been through. STOP FIGHTING IT!! That’s all I wanted to keep screaming at them.
All in all, I wasn’t disappointed with this book, and I have multiple others by Eden Bradley that I plan to read. So stay tuned for more, and remember if you’re looking for erotica in a book, this girl is the one to go to!
Maybe I'm just water-jealous. Set in Seattle, there's a lot of waterplay in the shower. For myself, living in SoCal, which is perennial drought territory, you would no more think of endless sexplay while RUNNING WATER in the shower than you would consider eating a kitten for breakfast. So I know, I had this big cultural taboo "thing" to try to get past that was bigger than any of the other BDSM issues.
I loved the sex scenes between Kara and Dante, but I didn't feel the barriers between them were big enough/believable enough. Which sapped some of the tension and the satisfaction level of the ending.
That said, both were interesting characters, and the sex scenes were hot, hot HOT. I'm still a major fan of Ms. Berlin and her work, and this is a book well worth reading.
The sex scenes were hot, but there was no actual conflict ... it was all internal (bs) conflict.
If you like reading about emotional angst with no true meat in the story - just all internal conflict ...if you like that stuff, this is the book for you because it has hot sex scenes and a lot of internal emotional angst.
For me though, whenever they were not boning (even the boning got repetitive), it was just BORING.
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- by Bo Bennett -
1 1/2 stars.
I am so proud that I could finish this book. It was painful and frustrating in a very bad way, and in the end I think this was a personal success because I was bored to the core. Desire's Edge couldn't live up to my expectations. Not by a long shot. I'm extremely disappointed.
Dante De Matteo is a Dom. He likes to have everything under control, and he prefers to not get emotionally involved. Dante plays out his fantasies at the Pleasure Dome - a BDSM club. Please note: there are only two sex scenes set up at the Pleasure Dome. Dante and Kara Crawford are meeting at a friend's party. Kara already had a crush on Dante during high school. They have a hot one night stand that turns into a 'relationship'. After her boyfriend dumped her, Kara is glad that she can finally play out her fantasy and be a sub. Later on, Dante is disturbed by his growing attachment. And so is Kara.
The book cover is hot but that's as far as it goes (the hero has a kink with water). I really LOVED Pleasure's Edge by Eve Berlin. This was the prequel to Desire's Edge. Usually I like this author's writing style. However, Desire's Edge is a huge disappointment! Jeez, I was on edge while reading this book, and my desire was jack shit. When I'm reading a good erotic book I can get all hot and bothered. Certainly this one here was a HUGE turn-off! Desire's Edge is neither sensual nor erotic.
The storyline is incredibly weak. To put it simply, Dante and Kara have the hots for each other and they have plenty of sex. The characters were less than convincing, they didn't have depth, and I didn't care for them. Like an afterthought the author mixed up the COUNTLESS sex scenes with a boring plot. This book is totally shallow and annoying. The spanking is overused and there's other pain play as well which I didn't really appreciated. And the sex scenes were utterly tedious. Frankly, there was too much sex and those scenes were badly written. After a while I didn't count anymore how often poor Kara had to bend over Dante's desk and spread her 'pretty thighs'. *rolls her eyes* I wanted it to be over! Dante calls Kara "my girl", "beautiful girl", "good girl"...gosh, I hate this! Why would a guy call a 29 year old woman "girl"???
I resent it that Kara is only the sex object during the play at the Pleasure Dome. She is the one who has to get undressed. Dante didn't have to get naked too. In real life it's absolutely the same: everyone can watch a woman's breasts and even more but when it comes down to men showing their goods (or lack thereof - oh, my gosh, I'm being mean)...yeah, and then what, huh? Get real here, Dante is the salacious and randy guy who loves to watch her. We're living in a modern world and we have equal rights - at least I thought so...but Kara is totally under Dante's command - not only in the bedroom. I know that he's the Dom and she's the sub. It's difficult to put the finger on it, but this felt not quite right. And they say that the sub's got the power. Jeez, where was her power? She's too weak, insecure and seems like a doll. He does what he wants and she's obeying. Even the hero was weak. He's scared and doesn't know how to deal with his feelings, and he didn't seem very mature. Good and proper communication is always the foundation of a good relationship. This is so essential. There's this saying "The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time. But also to leave the wrong thing unsaid at the most tempting moment."
There is something I was missing so much here: the atmospheric scenery. Ms Berlin/Bradley is absolutely able to write with such great care about the story's surroundings...and this was totally lacking here. Pity! I didn't even like the final part of this book. This was way too cheesy.
Ah, this was weird too. Kara's standing in his apartment. And here it comes: 'She was quiet, standing before him, her hands hanging at her sides. He could see that she was going down already, into subspace, that misty space in her mind where a bottom really began to let go.' Hello??? I mean they didn't do anything at all - they were only looking at each other. And he's already speaking about subspace. Yeah, I feel so spaced out when I have to read something like this. *rolls her eyes again*
He says a few times "Keep it under control, buddy." Yes, please, please - I even beg - keep your hard-on under control. I mean I don't have a c*** but it has to be really, really painful sporting a hard-on 24/7! *rolls her eyes once AGAIN*
Whichever way you look at it this book is bad, and I needed all my willpower to finish it.