Steel's Edge

By: Ilona Andrews

Narrated by: Renée Raudman

Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…Charlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte’s life is turned upside down once again.

Richard is a swordsman without peer, future head of his large and rambunctious Edger clan—and he’s on a clandestine quest to wipe out slavers trafficking humans in the Weird. So when his presence leads his very dangerous enemies to Charlotte, she vows to help Richard destroy them. The slavers’ operation, however, goes deeper than Richard knows, and even working together, Charlotte and Richard may not survive...

©2012 Andrew Gordon and Ilona Gordon (P)2013 Recorded Books

MORE!

I WANT MORE! Would love to hear more of George, Jack, Lark and Gaston, their adventures and how they ended up in the Innkeeper Series!!

Love this team of Ilona Andrews and Renee Raudman

Another good adventure story narrated by one of my favorite narrators. I really enjoyed following Jack and George as they grew up as well as the rest of the Edge gang.

Love it love it love it

I am afraid this is the end and I do not want it to be over. I absolutely can't believe the amazing job Illona did in creating a world beyond what my mind is capable of conceiving. I loved this series and sincerely hope there is more to come.

steels edge

loved it. action plot n romance
it's got it definitely recommend. the magic pulled me in.

Book is great; narrator ruined it

I have bought every single thing that Ilona Andrew has published, and when steals edge went on sale, I thought I would try the Audible version. Ugh. Renee Raudman is really bad. She constantly mispronounces a key character’s name, completely dragging me out of the story to mentally correct it each time. Why, oh, why don’t narrators bother to get basic pronunciation guides before they take their contract? She also has a creaky quavery voice that doesn’t fit this fast-paced adventure story. I gave up in chapter 1 the first time I got it, and I should have just returned it then, but because I love the Andrews’ books so much, I gave it a second shot and grimly made it all the way through, but I will, never, ever buy a book with this narrator again. Two thumbs down. Buy the Kindle version and read it yourself. The books themselves are great.

Wished there were more books

I wish the series would have continued, we get to see the kids all grown up on the other series, but I do feel cheated of their own books.

Ilona Andrew's and Renée Raudman do magic together

Loved the 4th book as much as the first. I wish there were more.

Of course it's good!

I'm sorry they are not going to add to this series for the foreseeable future. I've really enjoyed reading the exploits of the Edgers. As with the others in this series, there are characters that you enjoy with a plot that is well done.

Renee Raudman does her usual great job and makes a good story better.

great series

Love these books. and Renee Raudman is great. I just wish somebody would teach her some proper French pronunciation, because she's killing it.

Great addition to the series! :D

This was a really good story. I've read the previous books in the series and love the series. While this isn't my favorite book in the series (Fate's Edge was my fave) it was extremely enjoyable and I'm really glad I read it.

Charlotte is pretty cool. She's a healer that goes to live in the Edge after a problem marriage. She's happy there until an encounter with slavers destroys her life and makes her vow to take the slavers down. During this time she meets Richard. He's on a mission to take down the slavers and she convinces him to let her help him on his mission.

Richard is a pretty good hero. He's been in the previous books but I never thought "Oh wow, Richard's so cool he should have his own book"...regardless of this, now that I've read it, I'm so happy that he did get his own book! For a number of reasons Richard decided to take on the slavers and take them out. When he meets Charlotte he doesn't want to take her with him because of what the fight against the slavers will do to her but she gives him no choice.

Richard is attracted to Charlotte but considers himself a monster for what he has to do to take care of the slavers so he doesn't think there's any way she'd want him in return. The funny thing is that she feels the same. She is very attracted to Richard but feels she's an abomination for how she's using her magic against the slavers and feels unworthy of Richard. Fortunately they eventually realize the mutual attraction and succumb to it. This does make their mission harder though because now they have something to lose and aren't as eager to risk each other. It's good to see their feelings grow for each other. It felt like they both needed to indulge in their feeling for each other to keep themselves from getting buried in the darkness (emotional darkness) that surrounded them. And those feelings ended up being their salvation later in the story.

The story is fast paced and pretty interesting. Charlotte and Richard are constantly on the move trying to accomplish what they need to. I loved seeing most of the characters from previous books in the story as well and some of the old story lines getting completed (so to speak).

Overall this was a really good story. I really enjoyed it and thought it was a great addition to the series. I hope there's more of the series because it's so good I'd hate to have it end. Ilona Andrews is a great writer and I'd recommend this book and the whole series. I'd buy them all again without hesitation. :D