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Releasing Rage
Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.
When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?
Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals—kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience.
Until he meets Joan.
Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal—survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.
When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?
230 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 19, 2015
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Cynthia Sax
168 books1,512 followersUSA Today bestselling author Cynthia Sax writes steamy cyborg and alien romances. Her stories have been featured in Star Magazine, on TV, and numerous romance top ten lists.
When she isn't writing, she's traveling the world with her Dear Wonderful Hubby, meeting new people, visiting new places.
When she isn't writing, she's traveling the world with her Dear Wonderful Hubby, meeting new people, visiting new places.
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December 21, 2015
DNF@75%. What does the hero do when the heroine gets gang-raped? He fucks her, of course. While she's unconscious and covered by blood and other unwanted bodily fluids.
Yeah, sure, it's for "medicinal purposes" *scoffs* but seriously, why did it have to be magical, medicinal sex? Why couldn't the writer come up with a healing kiss or something? Because really, having sex with someone who just got raped and is near-death is distasteful as hell.
Oh, did I mention that he genuinely wanted to kill her at the beginning?
Yeah. I rest my case.
Yeah, sure, it's for "medicinal purposes" *scoffs* but seriously, why did it have to be magical, medicinal sex? Why couldn't the writer come up with a healing kiss or something? Because really, having sex with someone who just got raped and is near-death is distasteful as hell.
Oh, did I mention that he genuinely wanted to kill her at the beginning?
Yeah. I rest my case.
June 1, 2019
First of all, I loved everything about this story. Rage and Joan freaking OWNED me! Their initial meeting, with the threat of certain death almost tangible, and yet they still found themselves irresistibly attracted to each other and falling so deeply in love. WOW!! Second of all, why did no one steer me in this authors direction before???
Joan was an intelligent and perceptive engineer who garnered no respect from her peers. From the overt mysogyny and physical abuse from her coworkers, her life was far from ideal. She cared deeply for cyborgs, especially because one saved her life many years ago. She was living on borrowed time and she knew it and counted herself lucky to find love and passion with Rage in the meantime. As for Rage, he was one of the last of the older model cyborgs left and had endured tortures that boggle the mind. He had no love or trust for humans and no one could blame him. So when Joan became his new engineer, he let her know her life was over. He couldn't have predicted his instant connection to her or her innate submissiveness. She was utter perfection and a contradiction to everything he believed. These two were sweet forbidden love at its finest!
When I picked out this book, I thought it would be a smutfest of robotic proportions. I was prepared for very little story and lots of hot sex. I couldn't have been more wrong. While the intimate moments between Rage and Joan were pretty incendiary, this book had such an intricate and detailed plot. The author didn't miss a point. Every time I thought the story would go in a much 'easier' direction, the author showed me that she was willing to dig deeper. I got a story about hope and freedom. A story that delved into the utter desolation of oppression and the determination to be rid of the shackles. I was enthralled by the characters and this story controlled every one of my responses. I couldn't think beyond the next moment. I couldn't feel anything other than what I was directed to feel. And I loved every moment of it!
I'm 100% dedicated to every character introduced in this book. I'm excited to meet each one in their own story and I'm eager to find out how they navigate their newfound freedom. Cynthia Sax is a new-to-me author and she's most definitely found a new fan in me.
Rage threw back his head and roared, rattling the metal fragments scattered around him, filling the chambers with the sounds of his horror, his regret, his sorrow. They did this to her, the humans, and they would all die.
Joan was an intelligent and perceptive engineer who garnered no respect from her peers. From the overt mysogyny and physical abuse from her coworkers, her life was far from ideal. She cared deeply for cyborgs, especially because one saved her life many years ago. She was living on borrowed time and she knew it and counted herself lucky to find love and passion with Rage in the meantime. As for Rage, he was one of the last of the older model cyborgs left and had endured tortures that boggle the mind. He had no love or trust for humans and no one could blame him. So when Joan became his new engineer, he let her know her life was over. He couldn't have predicted his instant connection to her or her innate submissiveness. She was utter perfection and a contradiction to everything he believed. These two were sweet forbidden love at its finest!
Rage bent over and brushed the soft curls away from his little engineer’s beautiful face. The tendrils coiled around his fingers, embracing him, strands of red interwoven with the brown. Even her hair knew she belonged to him.
When I picked out this book, I thought it would be a smutfest of robotic proportions. I was prepared for very little story and lots of hot sex. I couldn't have been more wrong. While the intimate moments between Rage and Joan were pretty incendiary, this book had such an intricate and detailed plot. The author didn't miss a point. Every time I thought the story would go in a much 'easier' direction, the author showed me that she was willing to dig deeper. I got a story about hope and freedom. A story that delved into the utter desolation of oppression and the determination to be rid of the shackles. I was enthralled by the characters and this story controlled every one of my responses. I couldn't think beyond the next moment. I couldn't feel anything other than what I was directed to feel. And I loved every moment of it!
“We’ll survive this, female.” He pressed her face against his body armor. “Because that’s who we are.”
“Survivors,” she mumbled against the hard material.
I'm 100% dedicated to every character introduced in this book. I'm excited to meet each one in their own story and I'm eager to find out how they navigate their newfound freedom. Cynthia Sax is a new-to-me author and she's most definitely found a new fan in me.
September 25, 2023
Good cyborg romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🤨😟😳😍
The heroine: Joan - since she was eleven and was rescued from an attack by a cyborg, Joan wanted to be a cyborg mechanic. She went to the Academy and faced a lot of bullying and derision since this was a male dominated field and nobody wanted females to break into it. Now she was a full fledged engineer and the all male staff on the Battle Station near the front lines of the war against the mindless Mantidae. Where every cyborg had a handler (mechanic, engineer) to make sure they were in working order for each deployment. Joan was finally assigned a cyborg.
The Hero: Rage - he was a cyborg on the front lines of the war, and he had more kills than any other cyborg. So, when he finally went into a rage and killed the engineer who had been torturing him and experimenting on him, they didn’t immediately decommission him, instead they gave him a female handler who was different than the rest.
The Story: Joan’s boss hated her and wanted her dead, like all the other men on the Battle Station. That is why she was pulled off waste processing duty and finally given her own C model cyborg. They all expected him to kill her immediately after he tore his last engineer to pieces. Though she made him see that she was different from the others and only wanted to serve him.
The story is interesting. I like most of how the relationship is built between Joan and Rage, though the beginning is kind of odd. Joan comes in to clean up Rage, who is all bloody from tearing apart her predecessor, and he tells her to get naked, saying that since he is naked, she should be as well. So she just starts taking off her clothes. Though she was afraid he might kill her, taking off her clothes is still very weird.
I really liked the fact that the cyborgs were planning to escape, especially since all the engineers were pretty much abusing them and if they put up any kind of resistance or complained they would be decommissioned (used for parts). Not to mention the fact that the Alliance was using them as basically cannon fodder for their war. As sentient beings they just wanted to be free. Also, I could understand why Rage hated all humans and took so long to trust Joan.
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The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🤨😟😳😍
The heroine: Joan - since she was eleven and was rescued from an attack by a cyborg, Joan wanted to be a cyborg mechanic. She went to the Academy and faced a lot of bullying and derision since this was a male dominated field and nobody wanted females to break into it. Now she was a full fledged engineer and the all male staff on the Battle Station near the front lines of the war against the mindless Mantidae. Where every cyborg had a handler (mechanic, engineer) to make sure they were in working order for each deployment. Joan was finally assigned a cyborg.
The Hero: Rage - he was a cyborg on the front lines of the war, and he had more kills than any other cyborg. So, when he finally went into a rage and killed the engineer who had been torturing him and experimenting on him, they didn’t immediately decommission him, instead they gave him a female handler who was different than the rest.
The Story: Joan’s boss hated her and wanted her dead, like all the other men on the Battle Station. That is why she was pulled off waste processing duty and finally given her own C model cyborg. They all expected him to kill her immediately after he tore his last engineer to pieces. Though she made him see that she was different from the others and only wanted to serve him.
The story is interesting. I like most of how the relationship is built between Joan and Rage, though the beginning is kind of odd. Joan comes in to clean up Rage, who is all bloody from tearing apart her predecessor, and he tells her to get naked, saying that since he is naked, she should be as well. So she just starts taking off her clothes. Though she was afraid he might kill her, taking off her clothes is still very weird.
I really liked the fact that the cyborgs were planning to escape, especially since all the engineers were pretty much abusing them and if they put up any kind of resistance or complained they would be decommissioned (used for parts). Not to mention the fact that the Alliance was using them as basically cannon fodder for their war. As sentient beings they just wanted to be free. Also, I could understand why Rage hated all humans and took so long to trust Joan.
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August 6, 2018
"Female"
When I read, I find myself engaging both my heart or, if you prefer, emotions, and intellect. I am also of the belief that intelligence cannot exclude the human heart (emotion). The impetus to reproduce, create life, is seated in the emotions even if the holder of said emotions wishes to deny this intellectually...and, even if sometimes the emotions aren't all that productive and healthy. Most of the eminently acclaimed scientists know that there is a point in the study and investigation of our universe that knowledge and logic fail in the absolute understanding of things. It is at this point that an emotional decision is made to ascribe meaning to our human condition or not. It is not an entirely logical or informed decision, it is a human decision. Love, belief, grace and mercy are qualities that allow us to transcend the limits of the infinite reality that our scientific minds place before us. Where the limits of our knowledge and logic confine us to the limits of that reality we observe. It is belief, love, grace and mercy that lift us up out of these limits and allow our minds and hearts to soar in other realms that we cannot actually prove exist.
Pardon me, I digress. This book came out of the imagination of a skillful author who imagined a future world of new planets, new discoveries, new technologies, new alien enemies?, half-human/half-machine sentient beings. Some of the ideas were enchanting. Some made my blood run cold. Ultimately she fell a bit short in the actual world building.
I recall seeing a movie titled "A.I." (Artificial Intelligence). "The screenplay by [Steven] Spielberg was based on a screen story by Ian Watson and the 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss." - Wikipedia. This was a futuristic world wherein a technology company finally created a thoroughly convincing android with human emotions that imprinted upon its primary user emotionally and as it turns out, irrevocably for eons. The movie depicts how humans treated this android of a little boy as disposable when they had no longer any use for him and disposed of him as others disposed of their useless androids. Their owners thought to simply release them to be on their own instead of decommissioning them. These androids continued to learn from each other in their own rogue communities. They were rounded up, pulled apart and treated in grossly inhumane fashion. They were machines, right? Who cares? It was a spectator sport where folks visited their outrage at all the machines blamed for every misery or resentment at technology harbored by the "Average Joe or Jane". The androids from earlier to later models would huddle and comfort each other as the raucous patriotic? crowd did their worse to these beings. It is as if the more intelligent the androids became, they began to exhibit empathy, a thoroughly and completely human emotion. Again I digress but there is a point.
One of my guiltier pleasures is reading about the idea of a beautiful cyborg man and all the lovely possibilities that can be had if this half-man/half-machine loves, yes, his choice, loves and pleasures a woman . To this author's credit, she can write some mighty fine delectably dirty cyborg sex scenes that impart some incredible side benefits.
For example, Rage, the Model C Cyborg was a fierce beautiful, but really scarred battle and breeding machine. His new cybernetic engineer, Joan Tull is reverent of his being, aware of his sentient intelligence but startled at his lack of trust and overall hatred of human beings. Joan has dealt with the extreme of male misogyny. She had to literally physically fight to be trained as a cybernetic engineer. Males in her world where of the extreme view that "females" did not have the capacity to be engineers. Their brains were not capable as male brains.(Echos of a treatise recently written by a male engineer at Google?) At her duty station in space, along with openly calling her demeaning names, they were violent about it . Her commander instigated hate and violence against her with impunity.
When she met the violent cyborg that was to be her responsibility, she felt instant awe and began to experience desire for him. In her careful ministrations to clean and upgrade his mechanics, she discovered that his previous male handler had physically and sexually abused this being to the point of mutilating his genitalia. Furthermore, she discovered that the other male cybernetic engineers assigned to each cyborg did the same or worse to the half-human/half-machine beings that fought for them, provided them safety and kept them alive. I was sickened.
Is this going to be one the dangers to our human soul of having androids with artificial intelligence? For the most part, there does not seem to be an impulse by man to abuse any other machine or equipment used to insure survival within our story or without. Of course the author maintained continuity of the character of these particular men in their stupidity at abusing the lone female in their midst as they continued in their abuse of the the half-human machines entrusted to their care.
So while this was an erotic and futuristic tale of cyborg love and romance...(Eventually our heroine, Joan endures the absolute worse a woman can endure. The manner in which she was made whole again may upset some. In fact, the whole scenario of her attack is yet, another cause for concern.)
...ultimately, after I read this book, I felt a chill go up my spine and whether intentional or not, there are some warnings made plain by this story.
Judge your leaders by how they treat the most vulnerable around you. Sooner or later you will be vulnerable yourself. Speak out against cruelty to sentient beings. Cruelty is neither logical or good. Cruelty in the end destroys lives, characters and snuffs out the flames of compassion. Maybe if the human world...and the times before this futuristic time in the human world depicted in this book had the intellectual and emotional intelligence of "female" there would not have been so much war with interplanetary species and unnecessary killing. The cyborgs could go back to simply breeding. "Make love not war" ✌️
Always...always have the courage, whether man or woman, to speak out against language, actions and policies that hurt or injure another and have no basis in intellectual understanding...cannot be supported logically with that which we know to be empirically true. Perhaps in this way, our interstellar and interplanetary future will be far brighter than what is imagined so far.
I give this book a 3.5 stars. Again the author clearly has imagination. The erotic scenes sizzled. I thought a derogatory phrase ascribed to the human males was overused to the point of irritation. A huge plot hole or dilemma existed in my mind surrounding the healing substance the cyborgs had in their saliva and body secretions. Surely the men were not that stupid. The creation of new life was not given full attention, and the opportunity to say more was lost here. The ending felt rushed, the story incomplete and little was said about anything changing the future outlook of these worlds after all the meaningful drama.
I take no pleasure in expressing my negative impressions. I'm still soothing my broken heart wondering if all the trauma suffered was worth the read. I, as usual, tend to round up with my 3.5 to 4 stars.
When I read, I find myself engaging both my heart or, if you prefer, emotions, and intellect. I am also of the belief that intelligence cannot exclude the human heart (emotion). The impetus to reproduce, create life, is seated in the emotions even if the holder of said emotions wishes to deny this intellectually...and, even if sometimes the emotions aren't all that productive and healthy. Most of the eminently acclaimed scientists know that there is a point in the study and investigation of our universe that knowledge and logic fail in the absolute understanding of things. It is at this point that an emotional decision is made to ascribe meaning to our human condition or not. It is not an entirely logical or informed decision, it is a human decision. Love, belief, grace and mercy are qualities that allow us to transcend the limits of the infinite reality that our scientific minds place before us. Where the limits of our knowledge and logic confine us to the limits of that reality we observe. It is belief, love, grace and mercy that lift us up out of these limits and allow our minds and hearts to soar in other realms that we cannot actually prove exist.
Pardon me, I digress. This book came out of the imagination of a skillful author who imagined a future world of new planets, new discoveries, new technologies, new alien enemies?, half-human/half-machine sentient beings. Some of the ideas were enchanting. Some made my blood run cold. Ultimately she fell a bit short in the actual world building.
I recall seeing a movie titled "A.I." (Artificial Intelligence). "The screenplay by [Steven] Spielberg was based on a screen story by Ian Watson and the 1969 short story "Supertoys Last All Summer Long" by Brian Aldiss." - Wikipedia. This was a futuristic world wherein a technology company finally created a thoroughly convincing android with human emotions that imprinted upon its primary user emotionally and as it turns out, irrevocably for eons. The movie depicts how humans treated this android of a little boy as disposable when they had no longer any use for him and disposed of him as others disposed of their useless androids. Their owners thought to simply release them to be on their own instead of decommissioning them. These androids continued to learn from each other in their own rogue communities. They were rounded up, pulled apart and treated in grossly inhumane fashion. They were machines, right? Who cares? It was a spectator sport where folks visited their outrage at all the machines blamed for every misery or resentment at technology harbored by the "Average Joe or Jane". The androids from earlier to later models would huddle and comfort each other as the raucous patriotic? crowd did their worse to these beings. It is as if the more intelligent the androids became, they began to exhibit empathy, a thoroughly and completely human emotion. Again I digress but there is a point.
One of my guiltier pleasures is reading about the idea of a beautiful cyborg man and all the lovely possibilities that can be had if this half-man/half-machine loves, yes, his choice, loves and pleasures a woman . To this author's credit, she can write some mighty fine delectably dirty cyborg sex scenes that impart some incredible side benefits.
For example, Rage, the Model C Cyborg was a fierce beautiful, but really scarred battle and breeding machine. His new cybernetic engineer, Joan Tull is reverent of his being, aware of his sentient intelligence but startled at his lack of trust and overall hatred of human beings. Joan has dealt with the extreme of male misogyny. She had to literally physically fight to be trained as a cybernetic engineer. Males in her world where of the extreme view that "females" did not have the capacity to be engineers. Their brains were not capable as male brains.(Echos of a treatise recently written by a male engineer at Google?) At her duty station in space, along with openly calling her demeaning names, they were violent about it . Her commander instigated hate and violence against her with impunity.
When she met the violent cyborg that was to be her responsibility, she felt instant awe and began to experience desire for him. In her careful ministrations to clean and upgrade his mechanics, she discovered that his previous male handler had physically and sexually abused this being to the point of mutilating his genitalia. Furthermore, she discovered that the other male cybernetic engineers assigned to each cyborg did the same or worse to the half-human/half-machine beings that fought for them, provided them safety and kept them alive. I was sickened.
Is this going to be one the dangers to our human soul of having androids with artificial intelligence? For the most part, there does not seem to be an impulse by man to abuse any other machine or equipment used to insure survival within our story or without. Of course the author maintained continuity of the character of these particular men in their stupidity at abusing the lone female in their midst as they continued in their abuse of the the half-human machines entrusted to their care.
So while this was an erotic and futuristic tale of cyborg love and romance...(Eventually our heroine, Joan endures the absolute worse a woman can endure. The manner in which she was made whole again may upset some. In fact, the whole scenario of her attack is yet, another cause for concern.)
...ultimately, after I read this book, I felt a chill go up my spine and whether intentional or not, there are some warnings made plain by this story.
Judge your leaders by how they treat the most vulnerable around you. Sooner or later you will be vulnerable yourself. Speak out against cruelty to sentient beings. Cruelty is neither logical or good. Cruelty in the end destroys lives, characters and snuffs out the flames of compassion. Maybe if the human world...and the times before this futuristic time in the human world depicted in this book had the intellectual and emotional intelligence of "female" there would not have been so much war with interplanetary species and unnecessary killing. The cyborgs could go back to simply breeding. "Make love not war" ✌️
Always...always have the courage, whether man or woman, to speak out against language, actions and policies that hurt or injure another and have no basis in intellectual understanding...cannot be supported logically with that which we know to be empirically true. Perhaps in this way, our interstellar and interplanetary future will be far brighter than what is imagined so far.
I give this book a 3.5 stars. Again the author clearly has imagination. The erotic scenes sizzled. I thought a derogatory phrase ascribed to the human males was overused to the point of irritation. A huge plot hole or dilemma existed in my mind surrounding the healing substance the cyborgs had in their saliva and body secretions. Surely the men were not that stupid. The creation of new life was not given full attention, and the opportunity to say more was lost here. The ending felt rushed, the story incomplete and little was said about anything changing the future outlook of these worlds after all the meaningful drama.
I take no pleasure in expressing my negative impressions. I'm still soothing my broken heart wondering if all the trauma suffered was worth the read. I, as usual, tend to round up with my 3.5 to 4 stars.
May 14, 2016
I honestly found this book disgusting. Can I give it minus stars?!
I admit I love an Alpha male as much as the next person but this book took it to an extreme. In my personal opinion this was not a romance it was abuse.
I'm not going to give any spoilers as I never want to repeat what I read.
If you love a good romance with a sexy alpha male you won't find that here move on to something else.
Please don't miss understand this is not a question of the male character being dominant. I have no problem and enjoy when a dominant character is properly written. There is a line between dominant and abusive and I feel that line was crossed in this book.
I admit I love an Alpha male as much as the next person but this book took it to an extreme. In my personal opinion this was not a romance it was abuse.
I'm not going to give any spoilers as I never want to repeat what I read.
If you love a good romance with a sexy alpha male you won't find that here move on to something else.
Please don't miss understand this is not a question of the male character being dominant. I have no problem and enjoy when a dominant character is properly written. There is a line between dominant and abusive and I feel that line was crossed in this book.
May 26, 2024
Tercer libro de la 'Lectura conjunta cochina' y de lejos, EL PEOR DE TODOS
Releasing Rage sucede en un mundo donde los viajes al espacio exterior y el contacto con alienígenas es algo que la humanidad ya alcanzó. La tierra está en guerra con unos insectos gigantes del exterior, y para combatirlos tienen diferentes satélites militares en el espacio donde mantienen unos robots con ADN humano (o humanos con ADN robot ¿A quién le importa?), que poseen extraordinaria fuerza, curación rápida y excelentes habilidades en batalla; unas máquinas creadas para matar bichos y a eso se dedican cada que los humanos los lanzan a cazar.
Rage, un modelo antiguo que fue diseñado exclusivamente para matar y reproducirse, odia a los humanos por la crueldad con que lo han tratado, por usarlo como herramienta y por mantenerlo cautivo. Su único deseo es matarlos a todos y huir a su "tierra prometida": un planeta donde solo habitan cyborgs. Solo hay una pequeña excepción... Joan, la ingeniera asignada a cuidarlo que no solo es muy buena en su trabajo, también es muy buena para otros "trabajos" y por eso no piensa dejársela a nadie. A NADIE.
Bueno, este libro es horrendo. Más allá de que la historia es nula, tiene más desarrollo de personalidad un cactús que sus personajes, las escenas sexuales son lo más normalito del mundo, los protagonistas son la epítome del cliché, y toda la relación de los personajes se sustenta en que están arrechos y cochar se les da muy bien... más allá de todo eso, el problema real de esta historia es que tiene escenas MUY PERTURBADORAS. MUYYYY.
SPOILER: Y no sé si es que yo ya estoy muy vieja y estas vainas a mí me dan ganas es de arrancarme el útero y volverme lesbiana, pero a mí cualquier libro donde agarren a una mujer inconsciente porque fue vi*lada hasta casi morir, y que su pareja la viol* también porque la trama indica que el semen de un robot tiene "nanobióticos" y es curativo, entonces para salvarla hay que vi*larla diez veces más porque así el fluido es más efectivo... YO ESE CUENTO NO ME LO TRAGO. ¿No podías hacer algo menos tétrico y psicópata? ¿La autora no pensó en tal vez no sé, darle a beber el fluido o algo más? LO QUE SEA MENOS ESO. No mor, para mí eso no tiene explicación. EXIJO TERAPIA PARA LA AUTORA Y TERAPIA PARA MÍ DESPUÉS DE LEER ESTA ATROCIDAD.
Y miren, que los que me siguen desde hace mucho tiempo saben que yo no suelo ser tan dura con los libros y menos usar palabras tan hirientes, pero es que con este no hay misericordia de mí parte. Solo una persona muy turbia puede leer esto y decir "ufas, qué erótico, amo a esta pareja".
Y quitando las horrorosas escenas donde el macho es el típico prota con estreñimiento emocional traumado por tener un pasado difícil entonces te hablo y te trato como la mierd* que dice frases de cajón como: ella es mía, quiero marcarla, solo deseo mirar a mi hembra, cállate hembra y sírveme etc., lo más decepcionante es que se supone que estos libros se basan en las escenas eróticas para enganchar a los lectores y que se devoren los caítulos sin parar, pero en esta historia la escenas "hot" son lentas, sosas, predecibles, pero sobre todo NADA excitantes; es más erótico jugar fortnite que este libro.
Un fiasco. 0,5 de 5 estrellas y quiero que me devuelvan mis dos horas gastadas leyendo esta mamarrachada.
Releasing Rage sucede en un mundo donde los viajes al espacio exterior y el contacto con alienígenas es algo que la humanidad ya alcanzó. La tierra está en guerra con unos insectos gigantes del exterior, y para combatirlos tienen diferentes satélites militares en el espacio donde mantienen unos robots con ADN humano (o humanos con ADN robot ¿A quién le importa?), que poseen extraordinaria fuerza, curación rápida y excelentes habilidades en batalla; unas máquinas creadas para matar bichos y a eso se dedican cada que los humanos los lanzan a cazar.
Rage, un modelo antiguo que fue diseñado exclusivamente para matar y reproducirse, odia a los humanos por la crueldad con que lo han tratado, por usarlo como herramienta y por mantenerlo cautivo. Su único deseo es matarlos a todos y huir a su "tierra prometida": un planeta donde solo habitan cyborgs. Solo hay una pequeña excepción... Joan, la ingeniera asignada a cuidarlo que no solo es muy buena en su trabajo, también es muy buena para otros "trabajos" y por eso no piensa dejársela a nadie. A NADIE.
Bueno, este libro es horrendo. Más allá de que la historia es nula, tiene más desarrollo de personalidad un cactús que sus personajes, las escenas sexuales son lo más normalito del mundo, los protagonistas son la epítome del cliché, y toda la relación de los personajes se sustenta en que están arrechos y cochar se les da muy bien... más allá de todo eso, el problema real de esta historia es que tiene escenas MUY PERTURBADORAS. MUYYYY.
SPOILER: Y no sé si es que yo ya estoy muy vieja y estas vainas a mí me dan ganas es de arrancarme el útero y volverme lesbiana, pero a mí cualquier libro donde agarren a una mujer inconsciente porque fue vi*lada hasta casi morir, y que su pareja la viol* también porque la trama indica que el semen de un robot tiene "nanobióticos" y es curativo, entonces para salvarla hay que vi*larla diez veces más porque así el fluido es más efectivo... YO ESE CUENTO NO ME LO TRAGO. ¿No podías hacer algo menos tétrico y psicópata? ¿La autora no pensó en tal vez no sé, darle a beber el fluido o algo más? LO QUE SEA MENOS ESO. No mor, para mí eso no tiene explicación. EXIJO TERAPIA PARA LA AUTORA Y TERAPIA PARA MÍ DESPUÉS DE LEER ESTA ATROCIDAD.
Y miren, que los que me siguen desde hace mucho tiempo saben que yo no suelo ser tan dura con los libros y menos usar palabras tan hirientes, pero es que con este no hay misericordia de mí parte. Solo una persona muy turbia puede leer esto y decir "ufas, qué erótico, amo a esta pareja".
Y quitando las horrorosas escenas donde el macho es el típico prota con estreñimiento emocional traumado por tener un pasado difícil entonces te hablo y te trato como la mierd* que dice frases de cajón como: ella es mía, quiero marcarla, solo deseo mirar a mi hembra, cállate hembra y sírveme etc., lo más decepcionante es que se supone que estos libros se basan en las escenas eróticas para enganchar a los lectores y que se devoren los caítulos sin parar, pero en esta historia la escenas "hot" son lentas, sosas, predecibles, pero sobre todo NADA excitantes; es más erótico jugar fortnite que este libro.
Un fiasco. 0,5 de 5 estrellas y quiero que me devuelvan mis dos horas gastadas leyendo esta mamarrachada.
June 2, 2019
Had to create a new shelf for his book. My first sci-fi romance!
I was unexpectedly entertained. I liked both MCs very well. Some readers said they didn’t like the fact that Joan was so submissive with Rage when she’s perfectly touch and kickass with everyone else. I didn’t find that to be a contradiction. She’s smart. She knows what he wants, and it so happens she wants it too. And just bc you’re alpha with others doesn’t mean u can’t be submissive to someone you want to be do,instead by.
Wasn’t fond of the brutal stuff she had to suffer but it made sense, and I was glad the author didn’t feel the need to drag it out, get into too many details and make her suffer the trauma of it during and after. Made me like her more that she handled it like a Queen.
The thing I don’t get - that the author never went into an explanations for - is why are all those humans soooo evil! They raped (daily!!) all the cyborgs who fought for them. Brutally. And did disgusting things to them. I just don’t get why only 1 human female is good. Ok the Commander is the worst but doesn’t explain everyone working for him. They can’t all be brainwashed freaks! War does crazy hints to ppl but everyone viewed the cyborgs (who are 99%) male as objects with no feelings. Ok, why rape an object???? It just doesn’t make sense.
That inconsistency annoyed me. Bc it’s the whole premise of why cyborgs hate all humans. It paints cyborgs as an oppressed, abused ppl. Then explain the cruelty of humans better! Not everyone serving under Hitler, for example, were perverted sadists. I find it hard to believe a whole fleet of humans were all just inexplicably cruel.
I’ll be checking out other books by this author... hope it doesn’t start getting repetitive.
I was unexpectedly entertained. I liked both MCs very well. Some readers said they didn’t like the fact that Joan was so submissive with Rage when she’s perfectly touch and kickass with everyone else. I didn’t find that to be a contradiction. She’s smart. She knows what he wants, and it so happens she wants it too. And just bc you’re alpha with others doesn’t mean u can’t be submissive to someone you want to be do,instead by.
Wasn’t fond of the brutal stuff she had to suffer but it made sense, and I was glad the author didn’t feel the need to drag it out, get into too many details and make her suffer the trauma of it during and after. Made me like her more that she handled it like a Queen.
The thing I don’t get - that the author never went into an explanations for - is why are all those humans soooo evil! They raped (daily!!) all the cyborgs who fought for them. Brutally. And did disgusting things to them. I just don’t get why only 1 human female is good. Ok the Commander is the worst but doesn’t explain everyone working for him. They can’t all be brainwashed freaks! War does crazy hints to ppl but everyone viewed the cyborgs (who are 99%) male as objects with no feelings. Ok, why rape an object???? It just doesn’t make sense.
That inconsistency annoyed me. Bc it’s the whole premise of why cyborgs hate all humans. It paints cyborgs as an oppressed, abused ppl. Then explain the cruelty of humans better! Not everyone serving under Hitler, for example, were perverted sadists. I find it hard to believe a whole fleet of humans were all just inexplicably cruel.
I’ll be checking out other books by this author... hope it doesn’t start getting repetitive.
January 19, 2016
Smexy but over the top....
Okay, so this book was a hard one for me. It got a bit naughty right off the bat. I got the feel of the heroine being put in a situation similar to the women in the military academies that were assaulted. It was skeeving me out a bit but I continued. I really liked Joan and Rage. They were vibrant characters that leapt off the page and I connected with them. Where the story disconnected for me was when she was assaulted. I thought it was an unnecessary plot device and I almost feel if she would've fought them off while sustaining injuries it would've worked better for me as a reader. What made me detach was how Joan handled it. "Well I don't remember it because I was knocked out so it didn't happen oh well. Oh and we killed them all so I'm over it." It was hard for me to accept that as a reader, and feel their would be more damage to a female if she'd been that brutalized.
Personally, it made the assault seem meh, and assault should never seem meh--ever. I liked it enough to continue the series. I also liked the other cyborgs and want to know their stories. I really hope we stay away from that heavy of an assault. I'm not against it in romance or fiction, but it needs to be handled seriously. Not flighty.
Okay, so this book was a hard one for me. It got a bit naughty right off the bat. I got the feel of the heroine being put in a situation similar to the women in the military academies that were assaulted. It was skeeving me out a bit but I continued. I really liked Joan and Rage. They were vibrant characters that leapt off the page and I connected with them. Where the story disconnected for me was when she was assaulted. I thought it was an unnecessary plot device and I almost feel if she would've fought them off while sustaining injuries it would've worked better for me as a reader. What made me detach was how Joan handled it. "Well I don't remember it because I was knocked out so it didn't happen oh well. Oh and we killed them all so I'm over it." It was hard for me to accept that as a reader, and feel their would be more damage to a female if she'd been that brutalized.
Personally, it made the assault seem meh, and assault should never seem meh--ever. I liked it enough to continue the series. I also liked the other cyborgs and want to know their stories. I really hope we stay away from that heavy of an assault. I'm not against it in romance or fiction, but it needs to be handled seriously. Not flighty.
January 22, 2016
Why do we need an other frigging book that tells that same old story? I think I've read this plot hundreds of times. Yes, this is erotica. So be warned it's the same old, same old. (I wonder if I'm the only reader expecting a high standard from books, even when they are erotica.)
CS can definitely write. I wish she could write something fresh (and, you know, with those pesky details called characterization, world-building, and plot.)
Probably absolutely engaging if you are interested in erotica only.
PS I don't find any eroticism in sex that happens minutes after a gang rape. Call me weird.
CS can definitely write. I wish she could write something fresh (and, you know, with those pesky details called characterization, world-building, and plot.)
Probably absolutely engaging if you are interested in erotica only.
PS I don't find any eroticism in sex that happens minutes after a gang rape. Call me weird.
January 19, 2018
An odd, but not awful, story of a rage filled cyborg and an engineer in space. It's rather dom & sub, which I'm not a fan of. Otherwise, there is a plot & it works.....it's the usual the machines breaking free of their human captors.
March 16, 2016
Releasing Rage 1st in the Cyborg Sizzle series is a hard to rate book. I hope by the end of the review I will come to a sort of decision because there are things in the book that I liked (obviously) but there are some parts that made me cringe or roll my eyes.
I was in need of a cyborg romance and after Laurann Dohner and Eve Langlais series nothing get my attention. Other books were too kinky or plain boring or had a bad plot.
Releasing Rage follows more or less the same pattern: cyborgs are created in a lab to be killing machines without will. Enter the heroine who sees Rage as a man no matter what. She was saved by a cyborg before so, she knows that cyborgs are sentient beings capable of feeling and acting independently. She dedicated her life to becoming an engineer for the cyborgs and she is eventually "paired" with Rage. Even though she lived in a distant future Joan was subjected to a lot of male verbal abuse.
What was off for me was the constant need that Joan had to please Rage. All the kneeling and "sir" talk was a bit too much for my taste. Whenever an author takes a dive in the whole D/S genre I brace for disappointment. In this case it was so badly done and over used that I stopped reading all those parts of the book. Page 2 or 3 and Joan was already offering to "service" Rage. Those nanobytes made her....cue: massive eye rolling. Oh and Joan was told by Rage that he was going to kill her when he was "done" with her...
The smexy scenes however were well done. It was hot enough for me to feel my reader burn a bit. Rage knew his ways around females, well he was designed just for that (f..k and fight).
What follows is the cyborg rebellion against their abusers/ oppressors followed by cyborgs making their way towards "homeland" - the cyborg planet. So till now nothing in this book/ plot stands out from the other cyborg series: Joan was human so forbidden on homeland...same conundrum.
What stands out and was pointed out by other reviewers was the rape. Well, I didn't read about it but I was "told" in the aftermath when Rage found Joan. Her beating was brutal enough so I am glad that Cynthia Sax didn't take her time to pen the rape. The way Joan looked in Rage's eyes was enough for me.
So, it was not a rape per se and because of that it was not really necessary to the plot. The beating and subsequently Joan's near death would have been enough.
The part that made me cringe was the sex, after the rape. I mean, really? A magic touch would have been welcome because the repeat "pump 3 time, release" was plain gross. At times I wonder when I read something that doesn't really make sense -to me- : what was she thinking? is it really appealing to readers? If yes, then I am an odd one but I stand proud because as a reader that was one hard thing to read.
Then the way Joan brushed off the whole experience because she was not aware and her body was healed, well no. Just not. It was unbelievable and didn't make sense, again.
I wish somebody told Cynthia Sax to write something else, creative license be damned. Hello! Beta readers, do your job!
Overall the story doesn't come out of the cyborg plot on the market and I am sad because not so many authors attempt and write cyborg stories or good cyborg stories.
In the end this is a weak plot compared to Laurann Dohner cyborg stories and gets a 2 stars from me. Even though the smexy scenes were good and the plot at large was satisfactory the book with all other "issues" was just ok, for me.
I am recommending the book, yes, even though it's a two star story to all the readers who want more cyborg romance and cannot find. I will pick the rest of the books in the series because i like Gap and Crash and I want to see them happy. Maybe less dominance and more loving? One can only hope....
I was in need of a cyborg romance and after Laurann Dohner and Eve Langlais series nothing get my attention. Other books were too kinky or plain boring or had a bad plot.
Releasing Rage follows more or less the same pattern: cyborgs are created in a lab to be killing machines without will. Enter the heroine who sees Rage as a man no matter what. She was saved by a cyborg before so, she knows that cyborgs are sentient beings capable of feeling and acting independently. She dedicated her life to becoming an engineer for the cyborgs and she is eventually "paired" with Rage. Even though she lived in a distant future Joan was subjected to a lot of male verbal abuse.
What was off for me was the constant need that Joan had to please Rage. All the kneeling and "sir" talk was a bit too much for my taste. Whenever an author takes a dive in the whole D/S genre I brace for disappointment. In this case it was so badly done and over used that I stopped reading all those parts of the book. Page 2 or 3 and Joan was already offering to "service" Rage. Those nanobytes made her....cue: massive eye rolling. Oh and Joan was told by Rage that he was going to kill her when he was "done" with her...
The smexy scenes however were well done. It was hot enough for me to feel my reader burn a bit. Rage knew his ways around females, well he was designed just for that (f..k and fight).
What follows is the cyborg rebellion against their abusers/ oppressors followed by cyborgs making their way towards "homeland" - the cyborg planet. So till now nothing in this book/ plot stands out from the other cyborg series: Joan was human so forbidden on homeland...same conundrum.
What stands out and was pointed out by other reviewers was the rape. Well, I didn't read about it but I was "told" in the aftermath when Rage found Joan. Her beating was brutal enough so I am glad that Cynthia Sax didn't take her time to pen the rape. The way Joan looked in Rage's eyes was enough for me.
So, it was not a rape per se and because of that it was not really necessary to the plot. The beating and subsequently Joan's near death would have been enough.
The part that made me cringe was the sex, after the rape. I mean, really? A magic touch would have been welcome because the repeat "pump 3 time, release" was plain gross. At times I wonder when I read something that doesn't really make sense -to me- : what was she thinking? is it really appealing to readers? If yes, then I am an odd one but I stand proud because as a reader that was one hard thing to read.
Then the way Joan brushed off the whole experience because she was not aware and her body was healed, well no. Just not. It was unbelievable and didn't make sense, again.
I wish somebody told Cynthia Sax to write something else, creative license be damned. Hello! Beta readers, do your job!
Overall the story doesn't come out of the cyborg plot on the market and I am sad because not so many authors attempt and write cyborg stories or good cyborg stories.
In the end this is a weak plot compared to Laurann Dohner cyborg stories and gets a 2 stars from me. Even though the smexy scenes were good and the plot at large was satisfactory the book with all other "issues" was just ok, for me.
I am recommending the book, yes, even though it's a two star story to all the readers who want more cyborg romance and cannot find. I will pick the rest of the books in the series because i like Gap and Crash and I want to see them happy. Maybe less dominance and more loving? One can only hope....
July 11, 2015
A new series from this author who has previously entertained with hot alien romance and even dominant billionaires but as far as I know this is her first foray into a full length cyborg romance and what a doozy it is! From the first pages it's obvious that this futuristic world is a violent one where unspeakable atrocities occur and this author does not shy away from the darker elements . That being said this story is about hope and how no matter what you face anything can be overcome .
Ok so yes there's a lot of sexy elements in this book and right from their first scene together Rage and Joan share much more than just a handshake ! Rage has reasons not to trust the humans and even though he starts to see more in Joan than he expected his refusal to trust her absolutely has truly dire consequences . Joan believes in the Cyborgs and wants nothing more than to serve and help protect Rage but the prejudice she suffers is off the charts! Her fellow humans behave in a way that leaves me with no words as I hesitate to ruin this book for others but warning this author goes into the darkest place in humanity but fortunately does not wallow explicitly.
Can I believe that Joan loved Rage? Yes absolutely because he doesn't abuse or mistreat her in any way and in point of fact they clearly do bond. As for Rage and his fellow cyborgs I loved their interactions and it allowed the author to add humorous elements to the story. So a winner for me because I do enjoy a sexy cyborg romance but more importantly the first of what could truly be an excellent series and I'm definitely onboard for more!
I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review
Ok so yes there's a lot of sexy elements in this book and right from their first scene together Rage and Joan share much more than just a handshake ! Rage has reasons not to trust the humans and even though he starts to see more in Joan than he expected his refusal to trust her absolutely has truly dire consequences . Joan believes in the Cyborgs and wants nothing more than to serve and help protect Rage but the prejudice she suffers is off the charts! Her fellow humans behave in a way that leaves me with no words as I hesitate to ruin this book for others but warning this author goes into the darkest place in humanity but fortunately does not wallow explicitly.
Can I believe that Joan loved Rage? Yes absolutely because he doesn't abuse or mistreat her in any way and in point of fact they clearly do bond. As for Rage and his fellow cyborgs I loved their interactions and it allowed the author to add humorous elements to the story. So a winner for me because I do enjoy a sexy cyborg romance but more importantly the first of what could truly be an excellent series and I'm definitely onboard for more!
I was gifted a copy in exchange for an honest review
May 31, 2018
A good Cyborg romance is very hard to find and voilà I accidentally did!
I was bored with my usual book offerings so this came as a pleasant surprise.
Joan was appointed as Rage’s new handler+engineer after he brutally killed his previous one who constantly tortured him. Joan was the only female in their station and was constantly degraded by her boss and colleagues. Misogynistic jerks each and all of them. But she is a survivor with steel spine. She fought with her gentle nature and plotted against them cunningly. They all thought Rage will kill her instantly. But against their judgment they bonded slowly and sweetly. When all the cyborgs in the ship who are tortured and treated even less than slaves are put in danger Joan decides to help them and through that win the trust and loyalty of 500+ cyborgs. But not without a great personal expense.
I loved both main characters. They were made for each other. Joan especially is a kick ass heroine with gentle nature.All the cyborgs were ADORABLE! I loved their interactions and funny banter. Especially they way they treated Joan. How protective they all were.
Before you read please be beware of possible trigger. I didn’t like it one bit but author didn’t linger on it so I was ok. If anybody wanna know about it please message me.
Will read more from this series.
Absolutely recommended.
I was bored with my usual book offerings so this came as a pleasant surprise.
Joan was appointed as Rage’s new handler+engineer after he brutally killed his previous one who constantly tortured him. Joan was the only female in their station and was constantly degraded by her boss and colleagues. Misogynistic jerks each and all of them. But she is a survivor with steel spine. She fought with her gentle nature and plotted against them cunningly. They all thought Rage will kill her instantly. But against their judgment they bonded slowly and sweetly. When all the cyborgs in the ship who are tortured and treated even less than slaves are put in danger Joan decides to help them and through that win the trust and loyalty of 500+ cyborgs. But not without a great personal expense.
I loved both main characters. They were made for each other. Joan especially is a kick ass heroine with gentle nature.All the cyborgs were ADORABLE! I loved their interactions and funny banter. Especially they way they treated Joan. How protective they all were.
Before you read please be beware of possible trigger. I didn’t like it one bit but author didn’t linger on it so I was ok. If anybody wanna know about it please message me.
Will read more from this series.
Absolutely recommended.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 17, 2016
I completely loved this book even though something horrible happens in it. This book had me so nervous. I mean this freaking CYBORG story made me want one of my own. It had sex, battle of wills, killing and..... I just freaking loved it.
The plot was solid. The side character cyborgs were 100% likable and maybe even lovable. The heroine was the Bomb! Loved her. Every good man has a good strong woman by his side, right? This heroin was willing to die for this man, but it was not in the annoying stupid girl kind of way.
Now, there are a few annoying parts that made me roll my eyes and one part made me so angry I was ready to punch something, but that's to be expected.
I feel good because I've been going through book after book trying to find the one I could drown my own reality in, and for me this crazy read was it. Yep, I'm getting book two because I liked it that much. I'm not going to recommend this to my Lusty friends because it is completely out of their genres, but if I have a friend who's willing to take the challenge of reading something different, don't let me stop you from doing yo thang.
The plot was solid. The side character cyborgs were 100% likable and maybe even lovable. The heroine was the Bomb! Loved her. Every good man has a good strong woman by his side, right? This heroin was willing to die for this man, but it was not in the annoying stupid girl kind of way.
Now, there are a few annoying parts that made me roll my eyes and one part made me so angry I was ready to punch something, but that's to be expected.
I feel good because I've been going through book after book trying to find the one I could drown my own reality in, and for me this crazy read was it. Yep, I'm getting book two because I liked it that much. I'm not going to recommend this to my Lusty friends because it is completely out of their genres, but if I have a friend who's willing to take the challenge of reading something different, don't let me stop you from doing yo thang.
December 28, 2015
This was a seriously messed up read. The heroine is constantly doing anything and everything to please her cyborg, even knowing it is his goal to kill her when he's "done with her"? Ugh. I love the idea of a strong heroine, and I thought that was what I was going to get with this one, but sadly that wasn't the case. The story revolving around the cyborgs did have potential but other details in this read kept me from really liking it.
~SPOLIERS~
Please note, this book is not for sensitive readers..........There is rape. Lots of it (thankfully not between the hero and heroine though) and I found it quite disturbing. I never felt that it contributed much to the overall storyline though?? I think the story would have been much better had the whole gang rape thing not occurred.
This wont be a series I continue.
~SPOLIERS~
Please note, this book is not for sensitive readers..........There is rape. Lots of it (thankfully not between the hero and heroine though) and I found it quite disturbing. I never felt that it contributed much to the overall storyline though?? I think the story would have been much better had the whole gang rape thing not occurred.
This wont be a series I continue.
October 5, 2015
It's a man's world and no one knows that better than female engineer Joan Tull. Assigned to a outpost battle station, Joan is one step away from being assigned her own cyborg, her only obstacle being an all male staff who don't want women engineers in their ranks. Finally getting a chance to prove herself, Joan is assigned to cyborg model C899321.
Rage, half man half machine, is an early cyborg model known for violent tendencies on and off the battle field, making him one of the most lethal yet valuable cyborg warriors known to mankind. Having killed all engineers assigned to him, C899321 doesn't know what to make of the female claiming to be his new handler. Killing her would be too easy so why not allow her to service him until he and his fellow cyborgs escape their chains. He can always kill her as his destination, Homeland, does not allow humans and would terminate any who try.
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This has a strong resemblance to the Cyborgs: More Than Machines series to the point I found myself repeatedly comparing the parallel similarities. That being said the overall series premise is that mankind has created cyborgs as rank and file soldiers. The cyborgs themselves are treated as machines/robots, disposable when no longer needed, however, the cyborgs are much more intellectual than their handlers give them credit for. Thus the series is born.
For the most part I appreciated the core romance and D/s relationship between the main characters. The author kept to a realistic concept and reasonable characterization of a cyborg/human romance. The adult content scenes were smokin' HAWT with graphic scenes. Does get the heart a flutterin' when an alpha male character knows what to do and does it. Repeatedly. ;)
The cast of secondary characters were a hit/miss. As I'm a pro cyborg lover I definitely had favorites but in my opinion the author didn't expend a lot of energy developing the bad guy characters to the extent that it worked. I had a hard time rationalizing a whole population is guilty just because a sample number are evil. Vague isn't it but I follow a non spoiler code so there you go. End result though is I'm not gonna accept that premise unless/until it has a basis of reality.
The story line was problematic for me in that the world building was incomplete. I had questions regarding Mantidae, nanocybotics, and why Joan wasn't more skilled to handle herself in a male dominated profession. Seriously, if I was in a remote outpost without any support system to deal with discrimination and sexism, you can bet I'd become very very interested in martial arts, weaponry, and logging in any and all incident. Further, if monitoring and cameras had lapses I don't feel that would be ignored or investigate for the who/what/when/where/how. Again. Vague observations but....
Lastly. I do want to include for those readers having triggers with non/dub con. There is an off black scene regarding rape that some may find disturbing. If you fall under that category, do proceed with caution depending on your specific trigger because that subject and a scene does revolve around that.
This is a SFR that I enjoyed for the most part and recommend for fellow cyborg lovers. Can't wait for a couple follow up installments. Go Vector!!!!!
Rage, half man half machine, is an early cyborg model known for violent tendencies on and off the battle field, making him one of the most lethal yet valuable cyborg warriors known to mankind. Having killed all engineers assigned to him, C899321 doesn't know what to make of the female claiming to be his new handler. Killing her would be too easy so why not allow her to service him until he and his fellow cyborgs escape their chains. He can always kill her as his destination, Homeland, does not allow humans and would terminate any who try.
* * * *
This has a strong resemblance to the Cyborgs: More Than Machines series to the point I found myself repeatedly comparing the parallel similarities. That being said the overall series premise is that mankind has created cyborgs as rank and file soldiers. The cyborgs themselves are treated as machines/robots, disposable when no longer needed, however, the cyborgs are much more intellectual than their handlers give them credit for. Thus the series is born.
For the most part I appreciated the core romance and D/s relationship between the main characters. The author kept to a realistic concept and reasonable characterization of a cyborg/human romance. The adult content scenes were smokin' HAWT with graphic scenes. Does get the heart a flutterin' when an alpha male character knows what to do and does it. Repeatedly. ;)
The cast of secondary characters were a hit/miss. As I'm a pro cyborg lover I definitely had favorites but in my opinion the author didn't expend a lot of energy developing the bad guy characters to the extent that it worked. I had a hard time rationalizing a whole population is guilty just because a sample number are evil. Vague isn't it but I follow a non spoiler code so there you go. End result though is I'm not gonna accept that premise unless/until it has a basis of reality.
The story line was problematic for me in that the world building was incomplete. I had questions regarding Mantidae, nanocybotics, and why Joan wasn't more skilled to handle herself in a male dominated profession. Seriously, if I was in a remote outpost without any support system to deal with discrimination and sexism, you can bet I'd become very very interested in martial arts, weaponry, and logging in any and all incident. Further, if monitoring and cameras had lapses I don't feel that would be ignored or investigate for the who/what/when/where/how. Again. Vague observations but....
Lastly. I do want to include for those readers having triggers with non/dub con. There is an off black scene regarding rape that some may find disturbing. If you fall under that category, do proceed with caution depending on your specific trigger because that subject and a scene does revolve around that.
This is a SFR that I enjoyed for the most part and recommend for fellow cyborg lovers. Can't wait for a couple follow up installments. Go Vector!!!!!
August 22, 2015
Rage, a cyborg, was created to fight and to breed. As his name implies, he has a lot of pent-up anger caused by the humans who have tortured him throughout his life. After he kills his human handler, cyberengineer Joan is brought in. She’s been tormented by her male colleagues who would like to see her dead and hope the cyborg will finish her off. And Rage intends to….until she gets under his skin. Releasing Rage was really a fast-paced read, and I couldn’t put it down. I devoured every page. The Domination/submission element of this book surprised me. I kind of did a double take; I wasn’t expecting D/s, but the overall story kept me enthralled. I would definitely read the next book in the Cyborg Sizzle series.
July 23, 2016
A very promising start of a new-to-me series and author.
This was very reminiscent of the "Cyborg Seduction" series by one of my fav authors Laurann Dohner.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4842...
Joan is the only female engineer on a space station that's at war with some creepy insect-like race. She gets paired with a trouble-making cyborg named Rage and nobody expects her to survive. She slowly gains Rage's trust and deeper feelings develop.
The only thing that pissed-me off is the way females are treated in this universe. I find it kind of hard to believe that the entire male population of the station could be so blatantly cruel.
Can't wait to start the next one
This was very reminiscent of the "Cyborg Seduction" series by one of my fav authors Laurann Dohner.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/4842...
Joan is the only female engineer on a space station that's at war with some creepy insect-like race. She gets paired with a trouble-making cyborg named Rage and nobody expects her to survive. She slowly gains Rage's trust and deeper feelings develop.
The only thing that pissed-me off is the way females are treated in this universe. I find it kind of hard to believe that the entire male population of the station could be so blatantly cruel.
Can't wait to start the next one
December 25, 2019
Interesting premise but a little too dom/sub for my taste. If there had been a little more focus on world building, I think this could have been great.
December 28, 2015
Review can be read at It's About The Book
I broke all of my personal rules for writing reviews with this book. First, I’ve stopped giving 5 Stars to a series book, especially the first book in a series, but here I am giving this one an enthusiastic 5 Stars. This one does stand alone nicely and has good resolution, so that is my excuse. Second, after finishing this book, I read a lot of reviews…something I seldom do, not wanting other opinions to influence what a book meant to me, and only to me. From the 5 Stars to the 1 Stars, those readers and reviewers did not see what I saw. Some saw erotica…I can’t argue with that, some saw porn…which made me laugh! What? It’s possibly erotic romance, but it is far, far from porn. Some were upset by the level of violence, though the author gave a clear warning about that. And that’s still not what I saw as the essence of this story.
This is a love story. A love story between Joan and Rage, sure. But more. Joan had to fight to be the only woman to ever graduate from the academy and the only woman engineer ever assigned to a cyborg. She’s a hero to every woman doctor, lawyer, politician, engineer, athlete, pilot or truck driver who ever had to break through the glass ceiling. And she wanted it. So much. When she meets Rage for the first time, he is still covered in the blood and gore from the engineer/handler he had just killed…still in a killing rage. He didn’t trust any human, he had no reason to. Joan wanted his trust. When he told her to kneel. She did. That offended some reviewers…that this strong, capable woman kneeled at his first command. What was she supposed to do? He could tear her to pieces in a second. She wanted his trust. She kneeled. And the first tiny glimmer of trust began to form. It was lovely.
At Joan’s first meeting with Rage, she saw some unbelievable scars. Scars that weren’t battle wounds, but wounds inflicted by torture. This brave, half human-half machine, who was fighting for his human creators, was being tortured and experimented on by those same humans. His human captors considered him a machine, with nothing of humanity to temper their curiosity about what made him work. Much the way humans have experimented on animals and even other humans in the name of science. She wanted it stopped and vowed to protect Rage from further abuse. She became, for me, every person who ever stood up to a school yard bully, rescued an abused woman or fought for animal rights. Joan is the best of humanity.
And there’s more. She fell hard and fast for a cyborg. Wth? She wants the rest of humanity to accept her relationship with a half machine? Whoa! And there you go. Joan is a hero to every person who has loved outside their race, religion, ethnicity, culture or inside their own gender. As hard as introducing a significant other to friends and family who is different might be, can you imagine introducing a huge cyborg with grey skin? Joan’s parents were gone, but you get my meaning.
Maybe Ms. Sax didn’t intend to write all of the things into her story that I saw. Maybe she’s just a talented author who fired all of the synapses of an imaginative reader and allowed me to see things that I think are important. Either way, I loved Joan and Rage’s story and I think you will too. So pick up a copy and…
Enjoy!
I broke all of my personal rules for writing reviews with this book. First, I’ve stopped giving 5 Stars to a series book, especially the first book in a series, but here I am giving this one an enthusiastic 5 Stars. This one does stand alone nicely and has good resolution, so that is my excuse. Second, after finishing this book, I read a lot of reviews…something I seldom do, not wanting other opinions to influence what a book meant to me, and only to me. From the 5 Stars to the 1 Stars, those readers and reviewers did not see what I saw. Some saw erotica…I can’t argue with that, some saw porn…which made me laugh! What? It’s possibly erotic romance, but it is far, far from porn. Some were upset by the level of violence, though the author gave a clear warning about that. And that’s still not what I saw as the essence of this story.
This is a love story. A love story between Joan and Rage, sure. But more. Joan had to fight to be the only woman to ever graduate from the academy and the only woman engineer ever assigned to a cyborg. She’s a hero to every woman doctor, lawyer, politician, engineer, athlete, pilot or truck driver who ever had to break through the glass ceiling. And she wanted it. So much. When she meets Rage for the first time, he is still covered in the blood and gore from the engineer/handler he had just killed…still in a killing rage. He didn’t trust any human, he had no reason to. Joan wanted his trust. When he told her to kneel. She did. That offended some reviewers…that this strong, capable woman kneeled at his first command. What was she supposed to do? He could tear her to pieces in a second. She wanted his trust. She kneeled. And the first tiny glimmer of trust began to form. It was lovely.
At Joan’s first meeting with Rage, she saw some unbelievable scars. Scars that weren’t battle wounds, but wounds inflicted by torture. This brave, half human-half machine, who was fighting for his human creators, was being tortured and experimented on by those same humans. His human captors considered him a machine, with nothing of humanity to temper their curiosity about what made him work. Much the way humans have experimented on animals and even other humans in the name of science. She wanted it stopped and vowed to protect Rage from further abuse. She became, for me, every person who ever stood up to a school yard bully, rescued an abused woman or fought for animal rights. Joan is the best of humanity.
And there’s more. She fell hard and fast for a cyborg. Wth? She wants the rest of humanity to accept her relationship with a half machine? Whoa! And there you go. Joan is a hero to every person who has loved outside their race, religion, ethnicity, culture or inside their own gender. As hard as introducing a significant other to friends and family who is different might be, can you imagine introducing a huge cyborg with grey skin? Joan’s parents were gone, but you get my meaning.
Maybe Ms. Sax didn’t intend to write all of the things into her story that I saw. Maybe she’s just a talented author who fired all of the synapses of an imaginative reader and allowed me to see things that I think are important. Either way, I loved Joan and Rage’s story and I think you will too. So pick up a copy and…
Enjoy!
May 8, 2016
DNF at approx. 60%
(Violent)Domination and Submission is difficult to describe. Domination without responsibility and care is abuse. Submission without self-confidence and self-esteem is abuse. And that is exactly what this book is about. Use and abuse. The hero is severely abused, the heroine is severely abused, they abuse each other and none of them is able to even try and break free of it.
Let’s start with Joan. She is the classic wimp who let herself be pushed around by everyone without even thinking of defending or protecting herself. Let’s hope the bullies get bored and leave her alone – yeah like that ever worked. I never had the impression that she actually really cares about Rage or is even able to develop real affection and feelings for him. She manipulates him to not kill her, she manipulates him for his attention, she manipulates him into sex. To do so she is willing to give up even that tiny bit of self-esteem and dignity she possesses. When she tries to save his live it is purely for one reason – so that SHE doesn’t loose him. Not a thought is wasted on his feelings or his happiness. She shows no interest in the fate of, or the justice for the other cyborgs, she just conveniently uses them to save her Sextoy.
The so called hero – Rage: Being a slave to the humans he jumps at the chance to hand out a bit of abuse to his human handler himself. Well, why not? Joan is his superior but she approaches him willingly on her knees, obeys every order from him, addresses him as “Sir”, and asks for permission to ‘milk’ him to gain his trust. Even when he makes it clear, that he will kill her the moment he gets bored she still continues. Ok, so let’s have some fun. Exactly in that moment where he shows some affection and is finally willing to do the right thing - namely to save her from some more abuse, he is betrayed by his fellow cyborgs. Seems they too have no problem to use him to their benefit.
That’s where I decided to stop reading. From other reviews it was quite a good decision, because I really don’t want to read about the rather innovative cure for a raped woman.
(Violent)Domination and Submission is difficult to describe. Domination without responsibility and care is abuse. Submission without self-confidence and self-esteem is abuse. And that is exactly what this book is about. Use and abuse. The hero is severely abused, the heroine is severely abused, they abuse each other and none of them is able to even try and break free of it.
Let’s start with Joan. She is the classic wimp who let herself be pushed around by everyone without even thinking of defending or protecting herself. Let’s hope the bullies get bored and leave her alone – yeah like that ever worked. I never had the impression that she actually really cares about Rage or is even able to develop real affection and feelings for him. She manipulates him to not kill her, she manipulates him for his attention, she manipulates him into sex. To do so she is willing to give up even that tiny bit of self-esteem and dignity she possesses. When she tries to save his live it is purely for one reason – so that SHE doesn’t loose him. Not a thought is wasted on his feelings or his happiness. She shows no interest in the fate of, or the justice for the other cyborgs, she just conveniently uses them to save her Sextoy.
The so called hero – Rage: Being a slave to the humans he jumps at the chance to hand out a bit of abuse to his human handler himself. Well, why not? Joan is his superior but she approaches him willingly on her knees, obeys every order from him, addresses him as “Sir”, and asks for permission to ‘milk’ him to gain his trust. Even when he makes it clear, that he will kill her the moment he gets bored she still continues. Ok, so let’s have some fun. Exactly in that moment where he shows some affection and is finally willing to do the right thing - namely to save her from some more abuse, he is betrayed by his fellow cyborgs. Seems they too have no problem to use him to their benefit.
That’s where I decided to stop reading. From other reviews it was quite a good decision, because I really don’t want to read about the rather innovative cure for a raped woman.
August 11, 2020
Sometimes I really wish I could shake myself and ask, "What the hell were you thinking?!"
This, would be one of those times.
I wanted to dnf this so bad and this was at not even 10% in. But I had this thought in my head that the reviews must have been good and that's why I got it, so it must get better later, just keep going Umaiya~
Well let me tell you, the reviews are not good and one must never trust my memory for that bastard is good for absolutely nothing!
1.5 "this was horrible" stars.
The shelves say it all. I can't even- Just scroll through the reviews (especially that top one by Daniella) they lay it all bare.
Now here's the kicker, all this pent up rage I've got (pun not intended) is only for this book. Cynthia Sax didn't come off as a bad writer, the MCs were just pure shit and the plot/execution belongs in the gutter. Crash and Gap proved to be a fun duo and which is why I'm gonna quit this series here and not read their books cause I don't wanna hate them, their books are "dark" eroticas probably done wrong.
I think I'll just stick with Laurann Dohner for my Cyborg romances.
December 21, 2015
I had hopes this would be another good cyborg story but I didn't like how it started, Joan who is supposed to be this very brave and eager engineer who wants to work on the cyborgs because one of them saved her. On their first meeting, she kneels, submits, gets naked, and does sexual acts with Rage, the primitive cyborg who just killed his last handler. It was just too fast. Then there's . The other cyborgs do interest me and I'd like to read more about their stories but won't be buying them quite soon.
November 30, 2023
I can’t torture myself anymore,I’ve got through 3/4 of this book and I can’t do anymore..it started off having potential and the concept of the story seemed like it would be interesting,but I feel like I’m reading a book that has been written by 2 people (one of a young teenager and the other an adult)..some parts seemed ok,but most of it was just silly..but at least I know not to read anymore in the series 🫤and the 2⭐️ is for the concept of the storyline and that it could have had potential if it had been written better..
December 9, 2017
In the Cyborg Sizzle universe, the Human Alliance have been producing cyborgs, who they believe to be just machines, to fight their wars, carry out their atrocities all whilst abusing them in the all the terrible ways you can think of. After all, they're just machines right? Wrong. The cyborgs are more than just machines and they will get them and their brethren out from the control of the evil Human Alliance to live their lives in freedom. And, when they find that special woman? She's coming right along with them.1 review...11 books - 8 full length and 3 novellas - normally I would do an individual review for each book, however, I read all of these in quick succession and I wanted to save you from essentially reading the same review 11 times. The review goes something like this: Me Love Sexy Cyborgs. Repeat. As well as this, the books all followed a very similar pattern, made very apparent by the fact that I literally read them one after another, which is an endorsement in itself. However, before you have gotten a few pages in you essentially know exactly what is going to happen when, but that didn't stop me from coming along for the ride anyways.
Like in all series, I had my favourites, my absolute favourite being Ghost of a Machine, and I had the ones I didn't gel quite so well with. But, as each book gave me a sexy cyborg to lust over I was happy with each instalment. And dayum them cyborgs...they know how to get a lady all hot and bothered. Whether it's by their clueless adoration, their sexy dirty talk or the mad oral skills they somehow managed to pick up I was a goner for each one of them.
So, if like me you enjoy s sexy sci-fi romance story - heavy on the sexy romance, light on the story - these books are a lot of fun. The cyborgs in it are both sweet and intense and the heroines run the gamut from sweet and submissive, sassy and impulsive, brainiacs and badasses. Now, that I have read everything out I am now itching to get my hands on the next in the series!
P.S. last time I checked Releasing Rage the first book in the series and all the novellas were free on Amazon.
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March 25, 2017
If I had read the reviews before reading this, I would not have read it. It did give a warning that it was dark. Violence does not bother me and I do love alpha males but...sigh. I would have loved this book, but there were scenes that made me uncomfortable. Maybe if there was more background information, I probably would have been ready for this world. I got through it. Now that I know what this world is about and what to expect (or maybe it was just this story in the series), I will continue this series because I want to know about the secondary characters which I found would have been hilarious if she wrote more about them. Oh well. I'm hardly ever impressed with book one in a series. Who knows, I may become a fan.
August 30, 2015
3.5
Trigger warning for some people:
Not bad. I thought it was a fresh enough take on the cyborg erotica/romance to not seem like a carbon-copy of some other series. Nowadays, it's harder to find truly original cyborg erotica/romance. They all have similar plot elements. Cyborgs created for war, sex and/or experimentation that are treated horribly by humans, who apart from the heroine, sees them as only machines (even though they're party human). She sees or knows there's more to them than being a machine, so she works to save or free him/them, often at risk to her own life. Then, the rebellion and escape, where they usually kill the humans and somehow the heroine is brought along as they head to some cyborg controlled homeland/planet. The cyborg then has to confront and deal with more than just sexual desire he has for the heroine, but feelings as well, something that might be new to him. Often there's a miracle pregnancy, where a human-cyborg hybrid thought not to be possible, is.
My point is, these types of books all follow the same elements and tropes, so I don't expect for or look for originality. But I thought this book added some different elements where I didn't think I was read a Laurann Dohner fanfic. For example, I liked that Rage was an older less human looking model.
Anyway, I'll be looking for the next book.
Trigger warning for some people:
Not bad. I thought it was a fresh enough take on the cyborg erotica/romance to not seem like a carbon-copy of some other series. Nowadays, it's harder to find truly original cyborg erotica/romance. They all have similar plot elements. Cyborgs created for war, sex and/or experimentation that are treated horribly by humans, who apart from the heroine, sees them as only machines (even though they're party human). She sees or knows there's more to them than being a machine, so she works to save or free him/them, often at risk to her own life. Then, the rebellion and escape, where they usually kill the humans and somehow the heroine is brought along as they head to some cyborg controlled homeland/planet. The cyborg then has to confront and deal with more than just sexual desire he has for the heroine, but feelings as well, something that might be new to him. Often there's a miracle pregnancy, where a human-cyborg hybrid thought not to be possible, is.
My point is, these types of books all follow the same elements and tropes, so I don't expect for or look for originality. But I thought this book added some different elements where I didn't think I was read a Laurann Dohner fanfic. For example, I liked that Rage was an older less human looking model.
Anyway, I'll be looking for the next book.
December 18, 2017
3.5 Stars
In the Cyborg Sizzle universe, the Human Alliance have been producing cyborgs, who they believe to be just machines, to fight their wars, carry out their atrocities all whilst abusing them in the all the terrible ways you can think of. After all, they’re just machines right? Wrong. The cyborgs are more than just machines and they will get them and their brethren out from the control of the evil Human Alliance to live their lives in freedom. And, when they find that special woman? She’s coming right along with them.
1 review…11 books – 8 full length and 3 novellas – normally I would do an individual review for each book, however, I read all of these in quick succession and I wanted to save you from essentially reading the same review 11 times. The review goes something like this: Me Love Sexy Cyborgs. Repeat. As well as this, the books all followed a very similar pattern, made very apparent by the fact that I literally read them one after another, which is an endorsement in itself. However, before you have gotten a few pages in you essentially know exactly what is going to happen when, but that didn’t stop me from coming along for the ride anyways.
Like in all series, I had my favourites, my absolute favourite being Ghost of a Machine, and I had the ones I didn’t gel quite so well with. But, as each book gave me a sexy cyborg to lust over I was happy with each instalment. And dayum them cyborgs…they know how to get a lady all hot and bothered. Whether it’s by their clueless adoration, their sexy dirty talk or the mad oral skills they somehow managed to pick up I was a goner for each one of them.
So, if like me you enjoy s sexy sci-fi romance story – heavy on the sexy romance, light on the story – these books are a lot of fun. The cyborgs in it are both sweet and intense and the heroines run the gamut from sweet and submissive, sassy and impulsive, brainiacs and badasses. Now, that I have read everything out I am now itching to get my hands on the next in the series!
P.S. last time I checked Releasing Rage the first book in the series and all the novellas were free on Amazon.
In the Cyborg Sizzle universe, the Human Alliance have been producing cyborgs, who they believe to be just machines, to fight their wars, carry out their atrocities all whilst abusing them in the all the terrible ways you can think of. After all, they’re just machines right? Wrong. The cyborgs are more than just machines and they will get them and their brethren out from the control of the evil Human Alliance to live their lives in freedom. And, when they find that special woman? She’s coming right along with them.
1 review…11 books – 8 full length and 3 novellas – normally I would do an individual review for each book, however, I read all of these in quick succession and I wanted to save you from essentially reading the same review 11 times. The review goes something like this: Me Love Sexy Cyborgs. Repeat. As well as this, the books all followed a very similar pattern, made very apparent by the fact that I literally read them one after another, which is an endorsement in itself. However, before you have gotten a few pages in you essentially know exactly what is going to happen when, but that didn’t stop me from coming along for the ride anyways.
Like in all series, I had my favourites, my absolute favourite being Ghost of a Machine, and I had the ones I didn’t gel quite so well with. But, as each book gave me a sexy cyborg to lust over I was happy with each instalment. And dayum them cyborgs…they know how to get a lady all hot and bothered. Whether it’s by their clueless adoration, their sexy dirty talk or the mad oral skills they somehow managed to pick up I was a goner for each one of them.
So, if like me you enjoy s sexy sci-fi romance story – heavy on the sexy romance, light on the story – these books are a lot of fun. The cyborgs in it are both sweet and intense and the heroines run the gamut from sweet and submissive, sassy and impulsive, brainiacs and badasses. Now, that I have read everything out I am now itching to get my hands on the next in the series!
P.S. last time I checked Releasing Rage the first book in the series and all the novellas were free on Amazon.
November 8, 2020
This is a sexy sci-fi romance that takes place in a battle station in space. Joan is the only female, she’s a smart engineer working with cyborgs. However, the human male crew members treat her terribly. She is sent by her Commander to work with a damaged, violent cyborg, who turns out to be Rage. Rage and Joan develop a romantic relationship and Joan is eventually rescued after a cyborg revolt.
Overall the story was interesting and I liked the futuristic world-building. I would’ve preferred less sex scenes, as I found some of them took place at times I think made little sense with regard to the storyline. I liked that the author stayed true to Rage’s half-man, half-machine nature, so Joan becomes his priority even as he remains strong and dominant. The world in which they live is extremely violent, Joan is violently attacked and Rage helps heal her in a very unorthodox way, not a fan. I like the unexpected twist at the end and the epilogue was pretty cute.
Overall the story was interesting and I liked the futuristic world-building. I would’ve preferred less sex scenes, as I found some of them took place at times I think made little sense with regard to the storyline. I liked that the author stayed true to Rage’s half-man, half-machine nature, so Joan becomes his priority even as he remains strong and dominant. The world in which they live is extremely violent, Joan is violently attacked and Rage helps heal her in a very unorthodox way, not a fan. I like the unexpected twist at the end and the epilogue was pretty cute.
March 11, 2023
Purch Amazon April 18, 2018
3.5 Stars
When I first started reading it I thought 'Wow, this is going to be great."
Then about 25% through I thought "This is going to be good"
By 50% I was like "Are you kidding me! Can we get some story here."
By the time I was at 75% I felt like saying, "Not tonight Hon. I've got a headache."
This had the potential to be a great story. Unfortunately it was pretty much all sex. Don't get me wrong, I love great sex scenes. But, I NEED MORE. I want a real story with suspense, build up, tension, character & world build. There was so many times that could have happened in this book. The mc's were interesting, the chemistry is there. What is going on around them is ripe for a great Sci-fi story. But nope, never happened.
What did happen. I lost interest. I, ME, the person who will not intentionally read a book WITHOUT adult sexy scenes, literally started skimming the sex scenes. They became boring.
There were some great side characters and they could have added so much depth to this.
All the elements were here to make this a fantastic read.
But they never were used. It turned cheesy and boring and predictable.
I don't know if I will try another in this series or not.
I definitely will not be in a hurry to get there. 😡
3.5 Stars
When I first started reading it I thought 'Wow, this is going to be great."
Then about 25% through I thought "This is going to be good"
By 50% I was like "Are you kidding me! Can we get some story here."
By the time I was at 75% I felt like saying, "Not tonight Hon. I've got a headache."
This had the potential to be a great story. Unfortunately it was pretty much all sex. Don't get me wrong, I love great sex scenes. But, I NEED MORE. I want a real story with suspense, build up, tension, character & world build. There was so many times that could have happened in this book. The mc's were interesting, the chemistry is there. What is going on around them is ripe for a great Sci-fi story. But nope, never happened.
What did happen. I lost interest. I, ME, the person who will not intentionally read a book WITHOUT adult sexy scenes, literally started skimming the sex scenes. They became boring.
There were some great side characters and they could have added so much depth to this.
All the elements were here to make this a fantastic read.
But they never were used. It turned cheesy and boring and predictable.
I don't know if I will try another in this series or not.
I definitely will not be in a hurry to get there. 😡
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