Thursday, 9 April 2015

***REVIEW*** CODA by CD Reiss




Did you want a pat little ending about Jonathan and I riding off into the sunset? Did you want flowers and stars? Man, I wish it was all soft filters and violins. I wish we could fight about who cleaned the bathroom or who was cooking dinner. But I knew I was never destined for simple contentment. 


I almost committed murder for him. I almost tore us apart to save him. How do you get back on the horse after that? Because, I promise you, nothing is the same. Nothing. 

I’ve earned our happily ever after. Now I have to survive it. 

Coda the latest book by CD Reiss, the next story in the Songs of Submission Series.


I have loved the whole series so far and was so excited to know that CD Reiss was writing more on Jonathan and Monica.  They day it dropped into my Kindle I was giddy with glee and could not wait to dive in.

I would say though that you have to read the other books to get the gist of this book, I do not advise people to plunge straight into this book without reading the series’ first.

The whole series is set in Los Angeles; it deals with the instant and combustible attraction between two people Jonathan and Monica.  As much as Monica tries to deny she has feelings for Jonathan, the more she is pulled to him.

Monica is a musician and trying to make a name and career for herself, Jonathan is a high rolling business man with an incredible, kinky, dominating sex drive which he introduces to Monica who after some persuasion realises she loves this with him and gives up control of her body to Jonathan.  He is her King and she is his Goddess.

We meet up with these two after months of rehabilitation for Jonathan after heart surgery and we see at the beginning how frail he is. This annoys the living daylights out of both of these people, remember they had a very very active sex life and well after surgery it was lacking.  The dominance was not there.  That all changed one night after Jonathan had realised Monica was not happy, she was not his usual happy songbird.  It was then that Jonathan took back his control of his life, his lust and his dominating side, and took it back with a vengeance.

In the first sexual instance between these two, I must admit, I actually cringed but then came out from behind my kindle and saw how well fitted these two were and that this was exactly what they needed to survive and be happy together.

Nothing is always good and Monica still has fears that Jonathan’s new heart will give out, it won’t last long enough for them to have a good life and that holds her back on opening up more to him. Jonathan knew that first night back with Monica in his arms and doing what he demanded that this was the only way he was going to get her to open up to him.  Address her fears and deal with them as a couple.

“Hope was her power. Her way of coping. She’d do reckless things to keep it alive.
She’d murder and betray.
She’d be brave and strong.
All in the name of hope.
If I could take her hope and let it feed me, I might have a nourished life, no matter its length.”


Monica and Jonathan, both have demons & fears, they struggle to deal with them, especially Jonathan, I mean who wouldn’t, however, they both love and trust each other, they have that connection that they would be broken if they were apart from each other, they need each other with such a passion that it made you feel it in your bones. 

You cried when they were upset, you laughed when they did and boy did you get flushed when they had the most amazing sex I have read in a book for a long time.

Don’t be fooled in thinking this is just an ordinary love story, oh no, this is an intense love story and one I would recommend to everyone.

I leave you with something Monica gave to Jonathan.  These words to me just simply say it all.

“… I am your ever.
You are my after.
I am your alter.
I am your prayer. … … …
I am your heart.
You are my beat.
And I am your voice.
And you are my song. … … …”

6 STAMPS


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CD Reiss is a USA Today and Amazon 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 embed TV story structure in her head well enough for her to take a big risk on a TV series structured erotic series called Songs of Submission. It's about a kinky billionaire hung up on his ex-wife, an ingenue singer with a wisecracking mouth; art, music and sin in the city of Los Angeles.

Critics have dubbed the books "poetic," "literary," and "hauntingly atmospheric," which is flattering enough for her to put it in a bio, but embarrassing enough for her not to tell her husband, or he might think she's some sort of braggart who's too good to give the toilets a once-over every couple of weeks or chop a cord of wood.

If you meet her in person, you should call her Christine.













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