Sadly this book just annoyed me more than anything. The two main characters have a terrible relationship so buying into a spark eventually flaring between them just wasn't believable. Add in that half the time I was confused if I was reading this story or the story the heroine was in the middle of writing and my frustration level was off the charts. Normally I love this author but this book was a definite disappointment.

I have to admit, I had a hard time getting into this book from the beginning. But I decided to keep on trying. The story turned out to be pretty good although a bit different from most books I read.

After Glory’s mother passes away from cancer, her father decides to invest all of his money in a fixer-upper ski lodge in Montana. Glory is forced to go with him to help out even though she thinks it’s a bad idea. Glory has her own ideas of how she wants to live her life. She wants to be a romance writer just like her mother. So, she writes in her spare time. What Glory didn’t expect was to fall for Rolf, their new business partner. She hated from the start. He was stubborn and refuses to let anyone get in his way of building a world class ski resort. But as in a romance book, they finally end up falling for each other.

This book is like two in one, the main story and also the book that Glory is writing. The way it was written made it a bit more difficult to read. I had to keep going back and rereading parts because I would get confused. But all around, it is a good and interesting story.

What a poorly written book/romance. I have enjoyed some of this authors books in the past but this was a major disappointment.

The hero and heroine pretty much hate each other. The way they interact is pretty much toxic as far as I'm concerned. I enjoy romances were the two MC hate each other at the beginning and fall in love by the end, but at least there is a semblance of respect. Not between these two. The heroines character was weak and her development flatlined.

Heroine/Glory was pulled into her fathers business/scheme deal after her mothers death. She wasn't happy but went along with it. Her father wasn't much of a stellar character either and wasn't very respectful or caring towards his daughter.

Rolf, was pretty much a jerk. The way he spoke to and treated Glory with distain and was demeaning. I really didn't see and heroic actions from him through much of the book.

And I normally am not bothered with some swearing, but this one was over the top in my humble opinion. It became irritating and off-putting.

The writing was choppy and confusing as it went back and forth from the actual story to the story-line the heroine was writing (she was writing a romance). I at times felt lost.

Found it very difficult to finish but I did.

Not often I give this author such a low rating, but her track record is normally pretty good.

On the Edge by Dani Collins, a great start to the Blue Spruce Lodge Series. The story of Glory Comer who gets pulled into helping her Father in a good business he goes into with two brothers. A former championship skier Rolf and his younger brother Tripp, a championship downhill board racer. A story that will pulled in you from the first page. A emotional trip of restoring a ski resort and the people who do it. I look forward to future books in this series.

I found this book exhausting and not in a "wow, what a ride type of way." The crap and disrespect piled on Glory (our heroine) just exhausted me. Glory is a nice person but a door mat, and dang it if a lot of people don't wipe their feet on her.

Rolf, our hero, starts out almost completely devoid of any heroic tendencies or even much decency and is extremely difficult to like. He treats her with open distain to make sure she doesn't get any crazy ideas about hooking up with his level of perfection. He actually describes her as a scarecrow and doesn't spend any effort in being even remotely nice to her because why would anyone be nice to a woman who wasn't good enough to bang? 'Cause as any over inflated ego can tell you, if you're nice to an ugly girl they'll just follow you around.

Glory's father sucked too. He was a self centered bag of air. The way he was described made me envision the Disney professor duck character (Ludwig Von Drake) except he was a dick and not a duck. He mowed down anything Glory wanted to do and didn't care at all about how she felt, while displaying a toddler with a handgun level of decision making skills.

Also, I hated the duel storyline premise of a book within this book because it left me completely disoriented every time Glory would start writing or thinking about it. I actually only got through the book by skipping that part of the book completely. (Also, if I'm going to read a story about someone named Pandora she better have a laser gun strapped to her thigh or at least be a spunky Old West tavern owner.)

I can't really recommend this book, though, I will keep reading Collin's books.

This is a story about a man who is an arrogant, full-of-himself jerk and a woman who is insecure and constantly blushes. Only an author as talented and versatile as Dani Collins could make me like this "as…" hero – too self-assured for my taste, but also so gentle and protective with the heroine – or this shy heroine (who is stronger than she thinks).
I loved to watch the cold, elusive Rolf melt. Glory's not so subtle appreciation of the Viking’s physical assets was also funny to watch. I found myself laughing several times while reading the book. I guess it takes a lot of work to write an arrogant alpha male whom we learn to love despite of all his flaws (because he really has a personality beyond being a self-assured alpha with a great ass).
The parallel story didn’t really grab my interest, at least not until the last part, but there were some really sharp and intelligent reflections about romance novel, readers’ expectations, escapism. I’ll just say that Dani Collins is a fine, experienced writer that knows her craft.
The brothers and father/daughter’s relationships were really well written. Murphy, the dog, is delightful. The setting is beautifull. I also loved Nathan and his little boy and I’m so glad he will be the hero in next Blue Spruce Lodge story.

DNF

As much as I wanted to like this book, as much as the blurb intrigued me, as much as I pushed myself on into the book, it just didn't work for me. I even tried skipping around the parts that truly troubled me and the end result was the same.
Part of what made it difficult was the writers flipping back and forth between the book she was writing and the story. It bothered me that she was a doormat, her father was painted as, hard to describe a cross between the village idiot and one of the Marx brothers. He constantly blew her off as did the rest of the characters in the book. The brothers weren't likable, to try to imagine that she and Rolf suddenly fell in love at the end. No, just NO. Summarizing the characters, unlikable.
I honestly think the story would have had a better chance had the author stayed with one story line.

I truly hate not finishing a book. This one just wasn't for me.

*advanced copy from NetGalley and Tule Publishing*
**I received an advanced copy of this book, the above review is my honest opinion and all thoughts are my own**

Whoa! There are some serious scenes in this book-the kind that make you wonder what you’ve been missing!
The scene is a ski resort I dire need of renovation because of an avalanche. A father/daughter combination invest in the resort with brother/skier-snowboarder professionals. The daughter, Glory, resents being pulled into the renovation because she feels her father is wasting the money her deceased mother earned through romance novels. The older brother, Rolf, resents his brother’s involvement and is dragging their company into what appears to be a losing proposition.
There is spark and chemistry between Glory and Rolf that neither can resist, try as they might. Both of them are fighting their own demons which cause the resistance. But there is no denying such a strong pull toward each other.
As a cute note: within the book, is the story Glory is writing in her first stand alone try as a novelist. This story reflects the emotions swirling around Glory and showing her what she really wants deep inside.

It was a bit strange how much I ended up enjoying this book when I started out not liking any of the main characters all that much. Glory Cormer has given up on having a career or life of her own to help her mother, a popular romance author, update and market her books. Then her mother died of cancer and Glory is left having to continue mining her mother’s backlist in order to earn enough money to take care of her father. Her mother left her fortune and rights to her father because he’s so immature and naive about money that she figured he needed it. Right there I had a problem with the set up. It’s as if the mother condemned the daughter to slaving away serving the mother’s legacy in order to provide for the father who was just going to spend the money. And right she was. Glory’s father, a university professor, decides to invest all the money into a sky lodge in remote Montana - something that neither of them has any experience in.

The family that is creating a supposedly elite ski resort that will provide the guests for this lodge is led by Rolf, a taciturn, arrogant hunky alpha guy. He was formerly a championship skier and now runs his family’s sports equipment empire. But he’s decided to take a pause from running that empire in order to get this ski resort off and running. He’s rude and downright nasty to Glory, but she can’t help lusting after him. He also has his own naive and idealistic family member to deal with, his younger brother, Tripp, who is a championship downhill board racer.

So these people move to this remote winter wonderland to try to build Tripp and the father’s dream. Glory feels roped into this to protect her father’s savings. Meanwhile, she’d like to write her own romance novels. So, interspersed with the story of her and Rolf’s mutual attraction is the novella that she writes about a pregnant waitress in Tahoe whose one-night stand from eight months ago shows up on Christmas Eve just in time to deliver a baby that isn’t his. That story has a HEA just as Glory and Rolf do.

I felt that Glory was too weak and insecure to garner much admiration from me. Rolf was too obnoxious and cruel to Glory. But somehow, they clicked and I grew to like both of them a lot more. I don’t know if they just changed or I just lost my antipathy to them, but I ended up pulling for their future. The father still seemed like a spoiled dope who deserved to lose all his money; I wanted to smack him in each scene in which he appeared. Someone should have.

This is going to be a series and I find myself looking forward to reading the next one.

I was given a free ARC of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

‘On the Edge’ has me in a bind. Getting an antagonistic relationship—where 2 people truly don’t think much of each other in the beginning—to flip where both become lovers by the end is a favourite of mine. Throw them into a pressure-cooker environment and watch someone snap, even better.

But the story is much more than a secret-romance writer and introvert getting roped into her father’s whimsical project after her famous mother’s death, then getting stuck in someone else’s dream with a difficult business associate who shouldn’t be inspiring the tales in her head.

It’s not often when a tribute to romance authors is actually written into a story so distinctly. Or maybe it’s an ironic poke at the profession and the writers behind them, especially given the (unfair) flak that the romance genre always absorbs from its critics. No matter what it might be, I can’t help but think that ‘On the Edge’ is a sharp response to all of it.

As much as I like the self-reflexive bit that occasionally wiggles its way into a story however, there was just too much meta author-speak in ‘On the Edge’ for me. In fact, Glory’s own fictional characters were given too much free reign on the pages and the romance within a romance that Dani Collins wrote into this story, felt at best, like a distraction that broke up the main story as Glory wrote her attraction for the aloof and cold Rolf Johansson into a fictional couple who got down and dirty early on. If there was anything to prove that Glory had her heads in the clouds, this was it. At parts, it felt as though Glory was writing her own story into her fictional heroine’s story, and that exasperated me because I couldn’t find myself interested in the ’second’ romance at all that Glory had whipped up in her head.

Instead, I wanted to see the protagonist here (not in her story) who dug down instead of constantly blushing, the one who stood toe-to-toe to Rolf instead of stammering and losing the tail end of her speech simply because a hunky guy stood near her. But to slobber and be skittish over someone as terse, unkind and disdainful as Rolf was hard to read about, particularly when he looked down on her at the start and pretty much acted the bastard because he could.

Still, I felt for her. Stuck between her own failed career and relegated to a supporting character in her dead mother’s book sales, she had to wrestle a father who’d seemingly gone off the rails, hell-bent on an investment project deep in the mountains of Montana that he knew nothing about. Hemmed in by people who didn’t appreciate the work she did in the lodge, an arse of a hero who was all arrogance and no empathy and a father who brought down her ambitions, I thought she deserved way better than the crap she’d been dealt.

It isn’t to say ‘On the Edge’ isn’t a good read; in fact, I found it entertaining, riveting and sometimes even heartbreaking and Collins's writing was stirring enough to keep the pages turning. 

But like many books, I liked and disliked several things all at once. At the very least, I was engrossed in the hostile back-and-forth that characterised so much of Rolf and Glory. I loved how Glory finally stood up to Rolf, took him to task for being an insensitive and selfish clod, how Collins took her time to develop a burn that could only take time to start after an antagonistic first half, apart from the sudden TSTL move at the end that was nothing but Glory’s own insecurity showing. I did find myself skimming the distracting parts of this book however, and thought it would have been a better, more concise story without the secondary romance.

I really enjoyed this story. Rolf was hard to like at first but then I warned up to him. Glory was a character I rooted for from the beginning. Glory's father decides to help rebuild ski resort and quit his job and move to Montana and invest in said ski resort. Glory's mother has died and she is a little lost because she worked as her mothers assistant for years. After much debate she decides to go help her father out.

The story takes place while they rebuild the ski resort and at first Rolf has a lot of disdain for Glory. I did not liek how he judged her. But Glory is a fighter and also a hard worker and Rolf starts to respect her. This was an enjoyable story and I recommend it.

I did not like the story within a story, I found it distracting and I just wanted to read about Rolf and Glory instead.