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Wild Blood
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Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator.
Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death. It clung to her like a shroud, It followed her like the plague, and infected her like a parasite. When she overheard that the Monster Hunter needed an assistant, she took the job. And when the Cyborg’s eyes caught hers, she knew getting closer to death might just bring her back to life.
The Cyborg didn’t scare her.
So she followed him and left fate up to chance.
Warning: mature readers only, explicit sex scenes.
Book one of Cyborg Shifters, same universe as Stranded in the Stars, every book is a standalone that only subtly builds off of the others.
Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator.
Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death. It clung to her like a shroud, It followed her like the plague, and infected her like a parasite. When she overheard that the Monster Hunter needed an assistant, she took the job. And when the Cyborg’s eyes caught hers, she knew getting closer to death might just bring her back to life.
The Cyborg didn’t scare her.
So she followed him and left fate up to chance.
Warning: mature readers only, explicit sex scenes.
Book one of Cyborg Shifters, same universe as Stranded in the Stars, every book is a standalone that only subtly builds off of the others.
236 pages, ebook
First published June 1, 1996
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42 books1,625 followersNaomi Lucas is an indie author. She loves being creative whether it’s with painting, writing, or making little jingles about her dog, Barracuda, or her cat, Daliah, in the car.
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September 4, 2018
If you love cyborg stories AND
If you adore shifter stories AND
If you are not disgusted by a few cockroaches AND
If you are not afraid of big spiders,
Then most probably you will love this book, too.
The world building is excellent. I am looking forward learning more about the Ghost City and its part cyborgs/part shifters inhabitants.
Dommik is the perfect tortured hero cyborg/spider-shifter, created not born, who thinks that he is too much of a monster to be loved by anyone.
Katalina is the perfect heroine who is too afraid to get attached to anybody because everyone that she had loved died and left her alone.
Overall the book was a very enjoyable experience for me!
If you adore shifter stories AND
If you are not disgusted by a few cockroaches AND
If you are not afraid of big spiders,
Then most probably you will love this book, too.
The world building is excellent. I am looking forward learning more about the Ghost City and its part cyborgs/part shifters inhabitants.
Dommik is the perfect tortured hero cyborg/spider-shifter, created not born, who thinks that he is too much of a monster to be loved by anyone.
Katalina is the perfect heroine who is too afraid to get attached to anybody because everyone that she had loved died and left her alone.
Overall the book was a very enjoyable experience for me!
September 23, 2022
Kat and her monster!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Romance: 💚🖤💙💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 😤😥😊🤩😘
The heroine: Katalina (a.k.a. Kat) - She spent her life as a caregiver to the dying. The last one was her own grandmother who seemed to die of the same thing her parents died of which was a parasite. She feels she must have the same parasite inside her and that she also will die before her time. With her grandmother dead, she wants to travel the galaxy and find some sort of cure for herself.
The Hero: Dommick - He is a Cyborg shifter (part tech, part human, part spider DNA). They call him a Monster or the Monster Hunter and he knows it. He thinks he is a beast and that no woman could ever have feelings for him.
The Story: While at the spaceport, Kat sees the Monster Hunter and hears how every time he is in port, he drops off different creatures, plants and flowers to be studied and as he is walking by her, he hears his bosses tell him that he needs to hire an assistant. She is determined to be his assistant as she thinks that the flora and fauna he collects might be the answer she is seeking.
This was a very odd one. Dommick had a lot of secrets and doesn’t want Kat to know just how much of a monster he actually is. When I found out he was a spider cyborg shifter, I thought I wouldn’t like this one, but I thought Dommick was cute. Especially how he was such a loner and how he sat around braiding ropes in his ship and tied them all over like his own web. He was rough and tough and had a tender heart.
I read the third book, Shark Bite first and liked it because it was different than the average alien romance. This was the same. I really liked the story and the characters. Kat was extremely open minded but had a thing about bugs and she was a bit of a hypochondriac. But everyone has their own foibles, so I enjoyed it.
Like Shark Bite this book was dual points of view, dual narration and narrated by Hollie Jackson and Alexander Cendese who both did a great job with these non traditional characters.
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The following ratings are out of 5:
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Romance: 💚🖤💙💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌏
Character development: 😤😥😊🤩😘
The heroine: Katalina (a.k.a. Kat) - She spent her life as a caregiver to the dying. The last one was her own grandmother who seemed to die of the same thing her parents died of which was a parasite. She feels she must have the same parasite inside her and that she also will die before her time. With her grandmother dead, she wants to travel the galaxy and find some sort of cure for herself.
The Hero: Dommick - He is a Cyborg shifter (part tech, part human, part spider DNA). They call him a Monster or the Monster Hunter and he knows it. He thinks he is a beast and that no woman could ever have feelings for him.
The Story: While at the spaceport, Kat sees the Monster Hunter and hears how every time he is in port, he drops off different creatures, plants and flowers to be studied and as he is walking by her, he hears his bosses tell him that he needs to hire an assistant. She is determined to be his assistant as she thinks that the flora and fauna he collects might be the answer she is seeking.
This was a very odd one. Dommick had a lot of secrets and doesn’t want Kat to know just how much of a monster he actually is. When I found out he was a spider cyborg shifter, I thought I wouldn’t like this one, but I thought Dommick was cute. Especially how he was such a loner and how he sat around braiding ropes in his ship and tied them all over like his own web. He was rough and tough and had a tender heart.
I read the third book, Shark Bite first and liked it because it was different than the average alien romance. This was the same. I really liked the story and the characters. Kat was extremely open minded but had a thing about bugs and she was a bit of a hypochondriac. But everyone has their own foibles, so I enjoyed it.
Like Shark Bite this book was dual points of view, dual narration and narrated by Hollie Jackson and Alexander Cendese who both did a great job with these non traditional characters.
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June 13, 2022
Kat called after him, “What’s your name?”
The Cyborg paused, his back once again turned toward her. “Monster,” he said eventually. “Since that’s what I am.”
*biggest eye roll in the history of the world*
*facepalm*
“Everyone I care about leaves me…”
*new world record holder for biggest eye roll*
*playing world's tiniest, most sarcastic violin*
In addition to the joys I've shared above, you've also got:
1. Giggling
2. Mewling
3. An abundance of clichés
4. The absence of logic
Covers can be deceiving, especially on Unlimited. These authors have other jobs; they have no money for marketing. Even if a book looks like this one, like this dude dropped a bag of Skittles and can't quite make the connection between gravity and holes in candy bags, I never try to judge. I've found some gems that look atrocious. Unfortunately, in this case, what you see is what you're going to get.
As I understood it, the basic world-building here is kind of cool. In the future, science has advanced enough to grace us with cyborgs that possess animal DNA. If you can do that thing with your brain that allows you to board the Sure, Why Not train, you can accept that they've figured out a way to fuse man, technology, and spider to the point where someone can split his metal arms and legs in two and drip venom from his teeth. Whatever, it's cool, I can jive.
Now, say these "shifter cyborgs" have various odd jobs throughout the universe that capitalize on their strengths. The main dude in this book is a spider mix, and he's in (kinda) charge of finding and tagging dangerous creatures. Scientists on Earth want to study an ice dragon? He'll find it, bring it back, and set off again, going where he's told. I don't see what's so awful about that. Sounds like an interesting, inventive premise. Crazy new alien animals? Talk to me about this enhances scientific research. Talk to me about the black market that's popped up around trading them, the wild new circuses, the new animal rights protests for said circuses. I want it alllll.
The part about this book that makes me want to send it to bed without dinner is the girl. She ain't a woman. I won't waste much breath, but she's...naive? I can buy the whole "I am instantly attracted to this stranger" business (because who hasn't fallen in immediate, nonsensical lust with a hot person?) but I won't throw away my brain and abide a woman who doesn't bust a gut laughing when said attractive stranger says he wants to be called Monster. Get out of here with your Hot Topic, vintage band shirt, over-the-top man pain.
Everything is just turned to 11 in this book in an awful way. The man pain, of course, and it's subsequent "I must never form attachments because who could love me" trope. Instalust. The clichés. The plot holes. The drama. The stereotypical sex.
You know, I get that this is erotica. I hate erotica. I really hate sex just for sex's sake--not because I think sex is some dirty, shameful thing that should be hidden, but because I don't know an author who can do it without making me roll my eyes. If I don't care about the characters, I don't care what they get up to, period--sex or otherwise. I can make do with a bare bones plot, but it'd better be a compelling one, and it'd better be written with a modicum of skill. If the writing is bad, nothing can save it for me, and this book has bad, hasty writing.
The Cyborg paused, his back once again turned toward her. “Monster,” he said eventually. “Since that’s what I am.”
*biggest eye roll in the history of the world*
*facepalm*
“Everyone I care about leaves me…”
*new world record holder for biggest eye roll*
*playing world's tiniest, most sarcastic violin*
In addition to the joys I've shared above, you've also got:
1. Giggling
2. Mewling
3. An abundance of clichés
4. The absence of logic
Covers can be deceiving, especially on Unlimited. These authors have other jobs; they have no money for marketing. Even if a book looks like this one, like this dude dropped a bag of Skittles and can't quite make the connection between gravity and holes in candy bags, I never try to judge. I've found some gems that look atrocious. Unfortunately, in this case, what you see is what you're going to get.
As I understood it, the basic world-building here is kind of cool. In the future, science has advanced enough to grace us with cyborgs that possess animal DNA. If you can do that thing with your brain that allows you to board the Sure, Why Not train, you can accept that they've figured out a way to fuse man, technology, and spider to the point where someone can split his metal arms and legs in two and drip venom from his teeth. Whatever, it's cool, I can jive.
Now, say these "shifter cyborgs" have various odd jobs throughout the universe that capitalize on their strengths. The main dude in this book is a spider mix, and he's in (kinda) charge of finding and tagging dangerous creatures. Scientists on Earth want to study an ice dragon? He'll find it, bring it back, and set off again, going where he's told. I don't see what's so awful about that. Sounds like an interesting, inventive premise. Crazy new alien animals? Talk to me about this enhances scientific research. Talk to me about the black market that's popped up around trading them, the wild new circuses, the new animal rights protests for said circuses. I want it alllll.
The part about this book that makes me want to send it to bed without dinner is the girl. She ain't a woman. I won't waste much breath, but she's...naive? I can buy the whole "I am instantly attracted to this stranger" business (because who hasn't fallen in immediate, nonsensical lust with a hot person?) but I won't throw away my brain and abide a woman who doesn't bust a gut laughing when said attractive stranger says he wants to be called Monster. Get out of here with your Hot Topic, vintage band shirt, over-the-top man pain.
Everything is just turned to 11 in this book in an awful way. The man pain, of course, and it's subsequent "I must never form attachments because who could love me" trope. Instalust. The clichés. The plot holes. The drama. The stereotypical sex.
You know, I get that this is erotica. I hate erotica. I really hate sex just for sex's sake--not because I think sex is some dirty, shameful thing that should be hidden, but because I don't know an author who can do it without making me roll my eyes. If I don't care about the characters, I don't care what they get up to, period--sex or otherwise. I can make do with a bare bones plot, but it'd better be a compelling one, and it'd better be written with a modicum of skill. If the writing is bad, nothing can save it for me, and this book has bad, hasty writing.
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August 7, 2021Gonna just kinda truck through this entire series while waiting for more naga. :D
June 22, 2018
4 Not so steamy stars
To my surprise I liked Wild Blood. I do think it’s slightly misleading, the cover that is. The book is not steamy. Sure there’s some steamy parts, but it’s not an erotica novel, more like a NA. But maybe that is what it’s suppose to be. I always think with half naked guys on the cover there should be like tons of steam. THAT’s just me.
Anyhow that didn’t bother me at all because I wasn’t in that mood and I actually enjoyed the story.
I can see where the slightly not so high ratings come from. There’s a lot of character development and world building, but I really liked that.
Dommik is one of the oddest creatures I have read. I won’t give away what he is, but he’s at lest half human / half robot, well more robot that … wait for it… can shift. But what does he shift into?!!! no joke. I loved it. So random and so different.
Katalina wants an adventure and so she randomly gets on Dommik’s ship and wants to be his assistant.
The interaction between Dommik and Katalina is really mild for the first half of the book, like I said, I didn’t mind. There’s a little chemistry and relationship building. I think I was mostly interested in the world building and seeing what kind of world the author created.
I really liked the read, I felt like it wasn’t so out there I couldn’t understand. I liked the characters. I liked the glimpse of the side characters which will lead to future books. I liked the pace, flow and the length of the book.
Overall, I like Naomi Lucas and I like this series. I will probably finish out the rest of the books.
To my surprise I liked Wild Blood. I do think it’s slightly misleading, the cover that is. The book is not steamy. Sure there’s some steamy parts, but it’s not an erotica novel, more like a NA. But maybe that is what it’s suppose to be. I always think with half naked guys on the cover there should be like tons of steam. THAT’s just me.
Anyhow that didn’t bother me at all because I wasn’t in that mood and I actually enjoyed the story.
I can see where the slightly not so high ratings come from. There’s a lot of character development and world building, but I really liked that.
Dommik is one of the oddest creatures I have read. I won’t give away what he is, but he’s at lest half human / half robot, well more robot that … wait for it… can shift. But what does he shift into?!!! no joke. I loved it. So random and so different.
Katalina wants an adventure and so she randomly gets on Dommik’s ship and wants to be his assistant.
The interaction between Dommik and Katalina is really mild for the first half of the book, like I said, I didn’t mind. There’s a little chemistry and relationship building. I think I was mostly interested in the world building and seeing what kind of world the author created.
I really liked the read, I felt like it wasn’t so out there I couldn’t understand. I liked the characters. I liked the glimpse of the side characters which will lead to future books. I liked the pace, flow and the length of the book.
Overall, I like Naomi Lucas and I like this series. I will probably finish out the rest of the books.
May 30, 2018
3.5 stars
Ideal for any looking for their next Cyborg hit. With an original(for me) twist and quite interesting world building, this set itself apart from others in it's genre. Some of the Cyborgs here are shifters. As is the leading man. No ow/om drama, a blend between the intrigues of space travel and all that it entails and the coming together of a Cyborg Shifter with a human female.
Ideal for any looking for their next Cyborg hit. With an original(for me) twist and quite interesting world building, this set itself apart from others in it's genre. Some of the Cyborgs here are shifters. As is the leading man. No ow/om drama, a blend between the intrigues of space travel and all that it entails and the coming together of a Cyborg Shifter with a human female.
September 4, 2018
I hate spiders. Just a picture of one will make me scream. So, the fact that the hero of this book was a shapeshifting spider cyborg should have had me all kinds of creeped out. It didn’t. Not in the least. The story and characters were flat and the performance of the narrators..unimpressive.
June 22, 2019
There are parts I enjoyed, instances I hated and a section I totally didn’t understand.
March 27, 2020
After her grandmother's death Katalina is without direction until that is she spots Dommik at the spaceport.
A hunter and procurer of exotic lifeforms and vegetation for the EPED Dommik is also a cyborg.
A cyborg with a unique designation along with a few others, he is a shifter.
But not just any shifter he shifts into a spider and before you go Ewww well I am as much not a fan of spiders as the next girl but the fact that he's a cyborg spider makes this well less spiderish.
What I did appreciate was Dommik's primal instincts and animalistic behaviour in regards to Kat and though he tries to fight his own instincts believing himself an abomination and a monster he's facing a losing battle.
I also liked how Kat accepts Dommik completely and though she is initially a tad wary she swiftly realises he means her no harm.
I did think the ending just didn't have quite enough closure and also Kat's behaviour also here I found a tad disappointing other than I had no complaints this was unusual and well written and so very unique.
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April 24, 2021
This was creepy and kind of dark, and I really enjoyed it!
I'm not thaaat afraid of , so Dommik's shifted form didn't freak me out so much as had me morbidly fascinated. And the sex scene in his monster form was surprisingly hot... Guess I have some latent monster-kink I didn't know about. Huh...
Weirdly, I almost wanted more monster sexy times, but the sex scenes we did get were really hot.
I have to detract a star because this book was in dire need of a good editor. The writing was really evocative and unique, but the punctuation/grammar mistakes really threw me out of the story. I almost DNFed at the first chapter, but I quickly got wrapped up in the plot, and my brain managed to ignore it after a while. With a good copy edit, this book could be a masterpiece, and it was too bad to see it not reach its full potential.
Still, I recommend it. The world is super interesting and I'm definitely going to read the next one! Bring on more creepy monster-shifter mechanical men!
I'm not thaaat afraid of , so Dommik's shifted form didn't freak me out so much as had me morbidly fascinated. And the sex scene in his monster form was surprisingly hot... Guess I have some latent monster-kink I didn't know about. Huh...
Weirdly, I almost wanted more monster sexy times, but the sex scenes we did get were really hot.
I have to detract a star because this book was in dire need of a good editor. The writing was really evocative and unique, but the punctuation/grammar mistakes really threw me out of the story. I almost DNFed at the first chapter, but I quickly got wrapped up in the plot, and my brain managed to ignore it after a while. With a good copy edit, this book could be a masterpiece, and it was too bad to see it not reach its full potential.
Still, I recommend it. The world is super interesting and I'm definitely going to read the next one! Bring on more creepy monster-shifter mechanical men!
July 15, 2017
I quite liked this. It's shocking because I love my OTT alpha's and tend to bore more easily with other H types. This book was not boring and the story was unique and interesting. The H is a shape shifting cyborg who shifts into a weird spider-cyborg. Yes, you read that correctly. It totally creeped me out. Spiders aren't sexy imo. I freaking hate them so for the author to write a story with a spider type H that interested me was unexpected. I figured I'd read a bit of it out of curiosity but certainly not the whole thing. Well, the author lured me in. (Haha!)
I consider this H more of a beta H because in the beginning, he tried to get the h to leave his ship a few times. When she didn't leave, he avoided her. The reason he does this is because he didn't want the h to hate him once she saw his "other" form. He feels he is a monster. (That seems beta-ish to me.) So initially, he resists the "pull" he feels towards the h. It was past the 50% mark before they had sex. Once they did, she was his. There are a few instances of him being jealous but unfortunately not a lot.
Giving this one 4 surprised stars.
I consider this H more of a beta H because in the beginning, he tried to get the h to leave his ship a few times. When she didn't leave, he avoided her. The reason he does this is because he didn't want the h to hate him once she saw his "other" form. He feels he is a monster. (That seems beta-ish to me.) So initially, he resists the "pull" he feels towards the h. It was past the 50% mark before they had sex. Once they did, she was his. There are a few instances of him being jealous but unfortunately not a lot.
Giving this one 4 surprised stars.
June 15, 2018
Weird but had good smut.
Not gonna lie guys.. this is my first cyborg romance kind of book. I will obviously carry on with this series because the smut was really good.. but it was also kin of weird at the same time? I hope that makes sense because I just finished this book and I have no idea.
Wild Blood follows Katalina, aka Kat, and Dommik. Kat is a human who just wants to escape her family and earth. Then there's Dommik who is a cyborg but can shift into a spider thing? Again, it was weird but likable. When I first met these characters, well.. I liked them. Of course you see Kat driving away from her family because they were basically sucking the life out of her. She wanted out. Unsurprisingly, Dommik had secrets and was the mysterious bad boy - kind of? Okay, in a way.. they both have secrets which eventually come out throughout the book.
Kat becomes Dommik's new assistant without his knowledge and of course, the romance unleashes. I don't think it was super instant between the two but of course they had sparks. It definitely gets hot and heavy between the two - which made me love the smut. It was so good! Weird.. but good.
These two travel throughout space for missions and they end up travelling to a planet filled with aliens. Things got super intense and secrets definitely came out around that time too. It was a good and interesting book that kept me tapping the page on my kindle app. I will definitely be diving into the next book ASAP.
Not gonna lie guys.. this is my first cyborg romance kind of book. I will obviously carry on with this series because the smut was really good.. but it was also kin of weird at the same time? I hope that makes sense because I just finished this book and I have no idea.
Wild Blood follows Katalina, aka Kat, and Dommik. Kat is a human who just wants to escape her family and earth. Then there's Dommik who is a cyborg but can shift into a spider thing? Again, it was weird but likable. When I first met these characters, well.. I liked them. Of course you see Kat driving away from her family because they were basically sucking the life out of her. She wanted out. Unsurprisingly, Dommik had secrets and was the mysterious bad boy - kind of? Okay, in a way.. they both have secrets which eventually come out throughout the book.
Kat becomes Dommik's new assistant without his knowledge and of course, the romance unleashes. I don't think it was super instant between the two but of course they had sparks. It definitely gets hot and heavy between the two - which made me love the smut. It was so good! Weird.. but good.
These two travel throughout space for missions and they end up travelling to a planet filled with aliens. Things got super intense and secrets definitely came out around that time too. It was a good and interesting book that kept me tapping the page on my kindle app. I will definitely be diving into the next book ASAP.
August 12, 2018
I love myself some Cyborgs!!
Too bad this cyborg was a spider shifter...Yikes!! Kinda creepy and taboo...especially when he hooks up with his woman in his shifted form!
Too bad this cyborg was a spider shifter...Yikes!! Kinda creepy and taboo...especially when he hooks up with his woman in his shifted form!
August 8, 2025
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Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A touch
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? kind of a mix but maybe plot?
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: very soon in, Chapter 1 of
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after for the mains
Epilogue: Yes
Format: listened to an audiobook from my library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: I have liked Naomi Lucas in the past and want to read all her books!
Mains: Dommick and Katalina – This is a M/F relationship between a shifter cyborg hero and human heroine
(Descriptions found at end of my review)
Should I read in order?
This is book 1 of Lucas’ Cyborg Shifters series.
Basic plot:
Katalina needed a job so she sneaks on board with Dommick – a monster hunter and collector of plants and animals.
Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- futuristic setting – there’s ‘flyers’ with autopilot and higher technology and a ‘New America’ and interspace travel
- cyborg hero / human heroine
- heroine was a hospice home nurse and is now looking for a new purpose
- employer / employee – she lies her way onto a position on his ship
- he’s obsessed with her smell
- higher steam – 5ish full scenes in a shorter page count
Ages:
- didn’t catch either
First line:
Katalina, your laugh is worth more than this.
My thoughts:
I wanted to like this one so bad!!! And I wonder if part of it was just a narrator disconnect. I like Holly Jackson overall but I do find her male narration really monotone and it tends to not be my favorite. But in this one the male narrator (Alexander Cendese) made the hero sound like some kind of 1920’s gangster to me and it just sounded so out of place I couldn’t move past it….And his female voice made Kat sound super whiny and immature. I just really struggled with the whole narration sadly.
But still – there were some plot elements I just didn’t love either. I liked the set up for this one and especially loved the idea of a stowaway on a cyborg shifter ship. But the way Dommick was ignoring the heroine for long periods of time bothered me. And I really disliked the
Dommick seemed to have a lot of ‘dark desires’ that I wanted him to lean into more than he did. I liked a lot of the steamy scenes but they didn’t really go in a direction I wanted them to go in. I just found myself generally lightly frustrated with the story almost the whole time and wanted it to go differently.
Few random reading stats for this author
# of books read: 2
Average rating from me: 4 stars
Favorite book: A Gargoyle’s Delight
Cock/Hero Stats/World Building:
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Extra stuff like what my review breakdowns mean, where to find me, and book clubs
Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Readability: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Humor: A touch
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine
More character focused or plot focused? kind of a mix but maybe plot?
How did the speed of the story feel? medium
When mains are first on page together: very soon in, Chapter 1 of
Cliffhanger: No, this ends with a happily ever after for the mains
Epilogue: Yes
Format: listened to an audiobook from my library (Hoopla)
Why I chose this book: I have liked Naomi Lucas in the past and want to read all her books!
Mains: Dommick and Katalina – This is a M/F relationship between a shifter cyborg hero and human heroine
(Descriptions found at end of my review)
Should I read in order?
This is book 1 of Lucas’ Cyborg Shifters series.
Basic plot:
Katalina needed a job so she sneaks on board with Dommick – a monster hunter and collector of plants and animals.
Give this a try if you want:
- science fiction romance
- futuristic setting – there’s ‘flyers’ with autopilot and higher technology and a ‘New America’ and interspace travel
- cyborg hero / human heroine
- heroine was a hospice home nurse and is now looking for a new purpose
- employer / employee – she lies her way onto a position on his ship
- he’s obsessed with her smell
- higher steam – 5ish full scenes in a shorter page count
Ages:
- didn’t catch either
First line:
Katalina, your laugh is worth more than this.
My thoughts:
I wanted to like this one so bad!!! And I wonder if part of it was just a narrator disconnect. I like Holly Jackson overall but I do find her male narration really monotone and it tends to not be my favorite. But in this one the male narrator (Alexander Cendese) made the hero sound like some kind of 1920’s gangster to me and it just sounded so out of place I couldn’t move past it….And his female voice made Kat sound super whiny and immature. I just really struggled with the whole narration sadly.
But still – there were some plot elements I just didn’t love either. I liked the set up for this one and especially loved the idea of a stowaway on a cyborg shifter ship. But the way Dommick was ignoring the heroine for long periods of time bothered me. And I really disliked the
Dommick seemed to have a lot of ‘dark desires’ that I wanted him to lean into more than he did. I liked a lot of the steamy scenes but they didn’t really go in a direction I wanted them to go in. I just found myself generally lightly frustrated with the story almost the whole time and wanted it to go differently.
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# of books read: 2
Average rating from me: 4 stars
Favorite book: A Gargoyle’s Delight
Cock/Hero Stats/World Building:
Content warnings: (This should be taken as a minimum because I could have missed some!)
Locations of kisses/intimate scenes, safe sex, consent, pregnancy/child in the story:
Extra stuff like what my review breakdowns mean, where to find me, and book clubs
May 15, 2017
Katalina's last family member has just died leaving her with a windfall. Time for Katalina, call me Kat, to get out of her comfort zone and experience all that is out there in the universe. Fate seems to take an interest in her case when, at the space port ticket gate trying to decide on a destination, she watches as a cyborg vessel lands unloading a various shipment of plants, animals, and covered cargo. What must it be like to explore the universe unfettered and in control of your own destiny. Experiencing all that the universe has to offer returning with unique memories of your travels in the form of plants, animals, etc. Katalina can only dream.
Dommik-One is a unique cyborg. One of a few whose DNA was manipulated as an experiment in pushing the realm of possibilities in cyborg technology. Deemed a monster by some, he is tasked with finding high risk flora & fauna in the outermost regions of galaxies bringing them back to be evaluated. The risk involved in this makes it dangerous to include a humanoid crew yet that is what he's being told. That a second is mandatory if he's to continue.
Finding out the very cyborg she's jealous of now needs an assistant, Katalina, call me Kat, sneaks aboard his ship convincing the ship's onboard computers that she's just been hired. By the time Dommik finds out she's aboard it should be too late to do anything about it as even a cyborg wouldn't leave her high and dry on a random space port when it's obvious she's perfect for his needs.
* * *
New to me author and series that pulls in SciFi, cyborgs, paranormal (shapeshifting), adult content romance, and action adventure combined into one story.
This is a new release and in reviewing what others have said so far about this book (this is one time I looked as there is a hidden surprise that I needed to know if others have commented on) and found that there is a mysterious hidden element to this story that isn't being reveled so I'd like to keep it underwraps myself. For anyone who is seriously thinking about reading this book, it is ... different .... but how and in what way I won't say (PM me if this is a serious concern).
The author has taken an unusual route in featuring a circle of paranormal cyborgs who loosely band together for a common cause. Each is unique as they have shapeshifting abilities that originate from various animal based Primate, Carnivora, Reptilia, Chondrichthye, Arthropoda, Aves etc. families. In other words scientists manipulated animal based DNA with human DNA to create a new type of cyborg with the end result they are more suited to the end game requirements. Mad scientist 101.....
I can't help but feel that this story has a "Beauty & The Beast fairy tale vibe though not completely. At the core is Dommik who is perceived by outsiders as a monster predator so he keeps to himself living with computer, robots, fellow cyborgs who don't judge him. On the other hand is Katalina, call me Kat, who has known heartache and death all her life and now put in a position to change her future if she takes a chance to confront the beast head on. Interesting is that there are other cyborg beasts who are in the wings (of this new series) looking for the same.
The romance between the two are endearing, but, while the scenes themselves do include adult content, not to any overly graphic degree. D/s action that do have more a sensual slant with a side of shape shifting influenced advantages. hehehehe.
The secondary cast of characters for the most part is a roll out of future main characters for the series. Readers will have their own favorite based on personal preference animal base shifter origin. This is a risk for the author if she continues to keep those specifics a "secret" as not all readers will appreciate not knowing these details before the big reveal found within the pages of a story. Just sayin.
My problems with this story are a mix of lack of cohesive flow and editing. I first downloaded the 'sample' of this book off Amazon to make a decision to purchase. Liked what I read and so did the one click. The next 10-20% left me second guessing myself as the story drifted into cheesy content with a side of porn. I kept with it though as there WAS a mystery to discover and I'm a nut to know the rest of the story in any story I read. Glad I did as things got back on track as the action adventure/world building returned. I'm not a fan that the author kept the mystery reveal until later in the story and the manner in which it was received and all fall out related to that. However, I am a fan and will grab the next installment as the potential for the series get better is there.
I'm an eclectic reader who has a personal preference for SciFi. For other SciFi fans this is a book to check out though some may not get all warm and cuddly with the author's take regarding paranormal cyborgs. I did and look forward to the next installment which I don't see listed or with any publish date as of yet....
Dommik-One is a unique cyborg. One of a few whose DNA was manipulated as an experiment in pushing the realm of possibilities in cyborg technology. Deemed a monster by some, he is tasked with finding high risk flora & fauna in the outermost regions of galaxies bringing them back to be evaluated. The risk involved in this makes it dangerous to include a humanoid crew yet that is what he's being told. That a second is mandatory if he's to continue.
Finding out the very cyborg she's jealous of now needs an assistant, Katalina, call me Kat, sneaks aboard his ship convincing the ship's onboard computers that she's just been hired. By the time Dommik finds out she's aboard it should be too late to do anything about it as even a cyborg wouldn't leave her high and dry on a random space port when it's obvious she's perfect for his needs.
* * *
New to me author and series that pulls in SciFi, cyborgs, paranormal (shapeshifting), adult content romance, and action adventure combined into one story.
This is a new release and in reviewing what others have said so far about this book (this is one time I looked as there is a hidden surprise that I needed to know if others have commented on) and found that there is a mysterious hidden element to this story that isn't being reveled so I'd like to keep it underwraps myself. For anyone who is seriously thinking about reading this book, it is ... different .... but how and in what way I won't say (PM me if this is a serious concern).
The author has taken an unusual route in featuring a circle of paranormal cyborgs who loosely band together for a common cause. Each is unique as they have shapeshifting abilities that originate from various animal based Primate, Carnivora, Reptilia, Chondrichthye, Arthropoda, Aves etc. families. In other words scientists manipulated animal based DNA with human DNA to create a new type of cyborg with the end result they are more suited to the end game requirements. Mad scientist 101.....
I can't help but feel that this story has a "Beauty & The Beast fairy tale vibe though not completely. At the core is Dommik who is perceived by outsiders as a monster predator so he keeps to himself living with computer, robots, fellow cyborgs who don't judge him. On the other hand is Katalina, call me Kat, who has known heartache and death all her life and now put in a position to change her future if she takes a chance to confront the beast head on. Interesting is that there are other cyborg beasts who are in the wings (of this new series) looking for the same.
The romance between the two are endearing, but, while the scenes themselves do include adult content, not to any overly graphic degree. D/s action that do have more a sensual slant with a side of shape shifting influenced advantages. hehehehe.
The secondary cast of characters for the most part is a roll out of future main characters for the series. Readers will have their own favorite based on personal preference animal base shifter origin. This is a risk for the author if she continues to keep those specifics a "secret" as not all readers will appreciate not knowing these details before the big reveal found within the pages of a story. Just sayin.
My problems with this story are a mix of lack of cohesive flow and editing. I first downloaded the 'sample' of this book off Amazon to make a decision to purchase. Liked what I read and so did the one click. The next 10-20% left me second guessing myself as the story drifted into cheesy content with a side of porn. I kept with it though as there WAS a mystery to discover and I'm a nut to know the rest of the story in any story I read. Glad I did as things got back on track as the action adventure/world building returned. I'm not a fan that the author kept the mystery reveal until later in the story and the manner in which it was received and all fall out related to that. However, I am a fan and will grab the next installment as the potential for the series get better is there.
I'm an eclectic reader who has a personal preference for SciFi. For other SciFi fans this is a book to check out though some may not get all warm and cuddly with the author's take regarding paranormal cyborgs. I did and look forward to the next installment which I don't see listed or with any publish date as of yet....
September 4, 2017
Dommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator.
Dommik
Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death. It clung to her like a shroud, It followed her like the plague, and infected her like a parasite. When she overheard that the Monster Hunter needed an assistant, she took the job. And when the Cyborg’s eyes caught hers, she knew getting closer to death might just bring her back to life.
Katalina
The Cyborg didn’t scare her.
So she followed him and left fate up to chance.
Wow - an unexpected find! It was a compelling read - while the plot wasn't something unique - its a format I enjoy. The characters acted in a way that made sense to me as did the development of their relationship. As you'd expect the cyborg "monster" is animalistic: driven by smell and animal urges. Not a bad read. I would definitely recommend this book. There is lots of adventure with the same bit of romance.
July 2, 2018
Kat needs to get off Earth. Her grandmother just died and the rest of her family wants to control her. She's also got a horrible disease that is in remission inside her - she needs off the rock. She heads to the spaceport and an opportunity presents itself. She lies to get onboard the ship of the monster hunter. Once underway, she discovers that he doesn't only hunt monsters, he is one himself.
Alright, so I picked this one up to participate in a buddy read in one of my GR groups. It seems the consensus is - the smut is good but the book is just plain weird. I concur. There are so many things that happened that just had me wondering "what?". I'm not saying the book was bad, it was fine. I'm hoping that more explanation of what is going on occurs in later books in the series??
Alright, so I picked this one up to participate in a buddy read in one of my GR groups. It seems the consensus is - the smut is good but the book is just plain weird. I concur. There are so many things that happened that just had me wondering "what?". I'm not saying the book was bad, it was fine. I'm hoping that more explanation of what is going on occurs in later books in the series??
February 13, 2018
Decent sci fi romance. World building was okay. Nothing 100% stupid. We did have the humans called Earthians just WTF? so stupid. Terra and terran please. And the galaxy as a whole being small enough to be flown around in. Eh. I did like the idea of cyborg shifters though. That is easily the best shifter set up because science and not magic. The story was well enough plotted although I did wonder a bit at his occupation but okay. He hunts up stuff to be studied back on Earth. I guess I can buy that. Relationship was fine. I might read more in the series.
January 23, 2023
H is cyborg shifter and he expects others to find him revolting. The h tricked her way onto his ship so they are very awkward at first. I loved the H's passion for her as as he tries to keep some of his activities a secret to protect her.
August 21, 2017
It's rare that I read a book and think: holy fuck, this author has an unbelievable imagination. But holy fuck, Naomi Lucas has an unbelievable imagination! Superb world building, touching romance, hot cyborgs... this book has it all! Do yourself a favor and read it today.
September 6, 2017
I enjoyed this for what it was. Strange alien cyborg story. I probably would have enjoyed it more had he been anything else but a spider!! I hate spiders!!!
February 16, 2018
1.5 Stars
I've been on a Sci Fi romance kick recently and I wanted something a little different, which is why I picked up Wild Blood. A cyborg spider? I definitely haven't read that before and there's nothing I enjoy more than a weird alien hero, especially if the author gets me to fall in love with them. Sadly, in this book, that wasn't the case.
So, why didn't I fall in love? Was it because Dommik was too weird for me? Nope, I've read stranger. In fact, I got tired of Dommik monologuing to himself about how different and monstrous he was. I also found the heroine, Katalina, tiresome as well, she was either scared or horny, sometimes both. I found the whole thing, including the romance very melodramatic, she hated him, she loved him, she hated him again...by the end I didn't care.
I didn't really enjoy this book, from the blurb it sounded exactly like the kind of story I love, however, the delivery just didn't hook me and it needed editing properly. I don't usually comment on editing, however, in this case the strange sometimes nonsensical phrasing and dialogue helped with my overall dislike of this book. Overall I didn't like the characters, the story or the romance so I probably won't continue with this series.
February 23, 2023
2.5 stars!
Listen, maybe I didn't read the synopsis on this one properly, but I just didn't expect dude to be a spider.
I hate spiders.
I couldn't move past it.
The beginning of the book also had me blinking in confusion quite a lot. I felt like I was thrown into a world that had already been developed elsewhere and I missed the memo, as if this was the second or third book in a series rather than the first.
It's possible that this is a spinoff series that I read before the original? I'm not 100% certain, but if so, then I'd recommend starting off with the other series rather than this one because I was all sorts of bamboozled.
I didn't hate it by any means, but for me, the sticking points were just very... sticky and I couldn't brush over them.
Listen, maybe I didn't read the synopsis on this one properly, but I just didn't expect dude to be a spider.
I hate spiders.
I couldn't move past it.
The beginning of the book also had me blinking in confusion quite a lot. I felt like I was thrown into a world that had already been developed elsewhere and I missed the memo, as if this was the second or third book in a series rather than the first.
It's possible that this is a spinoff series that I read before the original? I'm not 100% certain, but if so, then I'd recommend starting off with the other series rather than this one because I was all sorts of bamboozled.
I didn't hate it by any means, but for me, the sticking points were just very... sticky and I couldn't brush over them.
June 23, 2018
BE WARNED: This book is all types of fucking WEIRD! And there is lots of spoilers in this review.
I don't even know where to start. How about the fact that Kat DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH knowing his mother fucking ass turned into a spider! A FUCKING SPIDER! Who tf wouldn't think that is creepy as all fucking hell!
And then let's talk about the fact that he impregnated her WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE! And then she just gets over it! WHAT! FUCKING WHAT!
But let's talk about the good. Which was the smut. That shit was on point. It was a little light for me. And it always ended waaay too soon for my liking. But it was still great! :D
All in all, this book is ridiculously fucking weird but the smut made up for it. So three stars it is. But probably not going to finish the series. Too fucking strange for my tastes.
I don't even know where to start. How about the fact that Kat DIDN'T EVEN FLINCH knowing his mother fucking ass turned into a spider! A FUCKING SPIDER! Who tf wouldn't think that is creepy as all fucking hell!
And then let's talk about the fact that he impregnated her WITHOUT HER KNOWLEDGE! And then she just gets over it! WHAT! FUCKING WHAT!
But let's talk about the good. Which was the smut. That shit was on point. It was a little light for me. And it always ended waaay too soon for my liking. But it was still great! :D
All in all, this book is ridiculously fucking weird but the smut made up for it. So three stars it is. But probably not going to finish the series. Too fucking strange for my tastes.
March 17, 2019
3.5 interesting stars
An intriguing twist on the usual cyborg sci-fi book by including a shape-shifting capability. Dommik seemed a little cruel to me at first and I could not figure out why Kat wanted to be with him. Sometimes their reactions were a little hard to follow and the plot jumped around some.
I will for sure check out the next installment.
An intriguing twist on the usual cyborg sci-fi book by including a shape-shifting capability. Dommik seemed a little cruel to me at first and I could not figure out why Kat wanted to be with him. Sometimes their reactions were a little hard to follow and the plot jumped around some.
I will for sure check out the next installment.
April 21, 2021
I didn't dislike this book by any means, but I felt like I was missing something as I read it. I don't know how to put it. I felt like there was a layer of world building I missed and I'm guessing it had to do with the companion series. I dunno. The Space Lords seemed to have things going on I wasn't aware of and that kind of took something away from the interactions he had with Dommik and Kat.
Beyond that, Dommik's ability to shift was...interesting. Not something normally seen, at least. Kat was kind of clueless when it came to the big, bad galaxy, but since that was something Dommik seemed to like, I guess it worked.
They clash. They find a grudging balance. They clash some more. Kat gets turned on. Dommik can't quite believe it. Honestly, Dommik's not the best at interacting with humans and his way of doing things isn't easy. But, again, Kat seemed to like that about him, so...there you go.
I did like the other cyborg shifters Dommik came into contact with and I'm curious what their hidden abilities might be. They're rough and surly and not always nice, but they intrigue me.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
Beyond that, Dommik's ability to shift was...interesting. Not something normally seen, at least. Kat was kind of clueless when it came to the big, bad galaxy, but since that was something Dommik seemed to like, I guess it worked.
They clash. They find a grudging balance. They clash some more. Kat gets turned on. Dommik can't quite believe it. Honestly, Dommik's not the best at interacting with humans and his way of doing things isn't easy. But, again, Kat seemed to like that about him, so...there you go.
I did like the other cyborg shifters Dommik came into contact with and I'm curious what their hidden abilities might be. They're rough and surly and not always nice, but they intrigue me.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
December 3, 2023
2.5 ⭐️
I’m still searching for a cyborg story that I can say I loved..but they seem to be hard to come by..anyway this was just okay..
Dommik is part human,part cyborg and part spider,which he can shift into..Kat is human and when her grandmother dies,she decides to leave and go into space and seek adventure,she arrives at the spacecraft terminal and sees Dommik and over hears that he is being made to take on an assistant,she asks him if she can be his assistant,but he refuses her and tells her that he doesn’t want one..so when Dommik is out of sight,she sneaks her way on to his space ship…and then the story begins between the two of them…
I’m still searching for a cyborg story that I can say I loved..but they seem to be hard to come by..anyway this was just okay..
Dommik is part human,part cyborg and part spider,which he can shift into..Kat is human and when her grandmother dies,she decides to leave and go into space and seek adventure,she arrives at the spacecraft terminal and sees Dommik and over hears that he is being made to take on an assistant,she asks him if she can be his assistant,but he refuses her and tells her that he doesn’t want one..so when Dommik is out of sight,she sneaks her way on to his space ship…and then the story begins between the two of them…
September 7, 2020
2020 PopSugar Reading Challenge
A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
The writing wasn't great. There was some really weird word choices (like using words like 'assault' during smut scenes) and awkward sentences that I had to reread. I couldn't stand the generic, lazy naming of things (Space Lords and Space Knights). There was also some cringey stuff going on (like Dommik covering Kat's mouth during sex). BUT the novelty of a cyborg spider shifter was amazing enough to compel me to finish. I think I will also continue with rest of the series.
A book with a robot, cyborg, or AI character
The writing wasn't great. There was some really weird word choices (like using words like 'assault' during smut scenes) and awkward sentences that I had to reread. I couldn't stand the generic, lazy naming of things (Space Lords and Space Knights). There was also some cringey stuff going on (like Dommik covering Kat's mouth during sex). BUT the novelty of a cyborg spider shifter was amazing enough to compel me to finish. I think I will also continue with rest of the series.
dnf
January 17, 2022DNF 65%
Oh man…I really wanted to like this. I did like it at first. It was the first cyborg story I’ve ever read, let alone, shapeshifter cyborg so I didn’t know what to expect. The premise was interesting and had potential to be really good. I was mostly disappointed by the characters. I’m not too sure why but I couldn’t connect to them, and there was no real chemistry between them either.
Dommik had potential but he fell flat. The fact that he is a shapeshifter cyborg, and could change into a spider, I think he should have been creepier. His ship is dark, the light is dim, he is a spider…I thought that the author would play on fear, and abstractedly make Dommik catch Kat in his web. There was a scene at the start when Kat goes back to her quarters, and looks left and right and feels a been scared…Imagine if she felt watched? Imagine if HIS attraction (he likes trapping his prey) started out like that? Attracted to the fear he instigated in Kat. I thought that, slowly, he would reveal himself, bit by bit. And Kat, albeit scared at first, would grow fascinated with him…Instead, he just thinks he’s a monster, and knows he will disgust her when she sees his animal form. He just stays away from her. There was no hunt or chase. Let him grow an obsession or make him stalk her, make him creepy yet caring. Make him interesting!
I didn’t sense that he cared about her, or even was attracted to her. The book SAID it, but didn’t SHOW it. I love the chase in a book. I love the H being tormented and feel his passion for the h. I didn’t feel any of that. And suddenly, he wants to claim her. Like what? Since when? Why? Cause she smells slightly good? What do you know about her? Would she even be good for you?
And don’t get me started with Kat. She was super dull. From out of nowhere, Kat was super into Dommik even suggesting him she could suck him out cause she was hungry and tired of eating peanut butter protein bars?
Excuse me lady, what? Sit your horny ass down. And overtime, she just annoyed me more and more. Their first time was also very anticlimactic. All she said was ''you have four hands'', while she had absolutely no idea what he was and it was the first time she seen him that way. Wouldn’t that freak out anyone? You think you know someone and suddenly they grow four arms and start groping you?
EDIT: He also purposely impregnated her just for a mission, without letting her know first.
It's frustrating because I love Naomi Lucas…this book just didn’t do it for me. Bleh. It wasn't terrible. The ideas were there, but I just can't read this.
Oh man…I really wanted to like this. I did like it at first. It was the first cyborg story I’ve ever read, let alone, shapeshifter cyborg so I didn’t know what to expect. The premise was interesting and had potential to be really good. I was mostly disappointed by the characters. I’m not too sure why but I couldn’t connect to them, and there was no real chemistry between them either.
Dommik had potential but he fell flat. The fact that he is a shapeshifter cyborg, and could change into a spider, I think he should have been creepier. His ship is dark, the light is dim, he is a spider…I thought that the author would play on fear, and abstractedly make Dommik catch Kat in his web. There was a scene at the start when Kat goes back to her quarters, and looks left and right and feels a been scared…Imagine if she felt watched? Imagine if HIS attraction (he likes trapping his prey) started out like that? Attracted to the fear he instigated in Kat. I thought that, slowly, he would reveal himself, bit by bit. And Kat, albeit scared at first, would grow fascinated with him…Instead, he just thinks he’s a monster, and knows he will disgust her when she sees his animal form. He just stays away from her. There was no hunt or chase. Let him grow an obsession or make him stalk her, make him creepy yet caring. Make him interesting!
I didn’t sense that he cared about her, or even was attracted to her. The book SAID it, but didn’t SHOW it. I love the chase in a book. I love the H being tormented and feel his passion for the h. I didn’t feel any of that. And suddenly, he wants to claim her. Like what? Since when? Why? Cause she smells slightly good? What do you know about her? Would she even be good for you?
And don’t get me started with Kat. She was super dull. From out of nowhere, Kat was super into Dommik even suggesting him she could suck him out cause she was hungry and tired of eating peanut butter protein bars?
Excuse me lady, what? Sit your horny ass down. And overtime, she just annoyed me more and more. Their first time was also very anticlimactic. All she said was ''you have four hands'', while she had absolutely no idea what he was and it was the first time she seen him that way. Wouldn’t that freak out anyone? You think you know someone and suddenly they grow four arms and start groping you?
EDIT: He also purposely impregnated her just for a mission, without letting her know first.
It's frustrating because I love Naomi Lucas…this book just didn’t do it for me. Bleh. It wasn't terrible. The ideas were there, but I just can't read this.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 13, 2018
I've been on a Sci Fi romance kick recently and I wanted something a little different, which is why I picked up Wild Blood. A cyborg spider? I definitely haven't read that before and there's nothing I enjoy more than a weird alien hero, especially if the author gets me to fall in love with them. Sadly, in this book, that wasn't the case.So, why didn't I fall in love? Was it because Dommik was too weird for me? Nope, I've read stranger. In fact, I got tired of Dommik monologuing to himself about how different and monstrous he was. I also found the heroine, Katalina, tiresome as well, she was either scared or horny, sometimes both. I found the whole thing, including the romance very melodramatic, she hated him, she loved him, she hated him again...by the end I didn't care.
I didn't really enjoy this book, from the blurb it sounded exactly like the kind of story I love, however, the delivery just didn't hook me and it needed editing properly. I don't usually comment on editing, however, in this case the strange sometimes nonsensical phrasing and dialogue helped with my overall dislike of this book. Overall I didn't like the characters, the story or the romance so I probably won't continue with this series.
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