Story is ok. It’s part of a good erotic sci-fi series.

STORY BRIEF:
Rena is an insurance investigator. She is traveling on a shuttle with five armed men. Their job is to repossess a starship stolen by pirates. Cyorgs then stole the starship from pirates and plan to keep it. The cyborgs defeat the five men and take Rena prisoner. She’s horrified when she hears cyborgs talk about sharing her for sex. The cyborgs view humans as property and are debating who will get her. Steel is the largest cyborg. Rena believes he is less likely to share her, so she asks the captain to give her to Steel. She hopes Steel will protect her. Unfortunately Steel is not interested in sex with Rena. To ensure that he keeps her Rena makes the first move toward sex. She also makes the first moves toward a relationship. Steel repeatedly rejects her. He doesn’t want sex. He doesn’t want more sex. He doesn’t want a relationship. Many cyborg women want Steel and make suggestive passes at him. Poor insecure Rena is humiliated at his rejections and jealous of the other women. She’s also insecure due to sexual inexperience and a lying cheating husband back on earth.

REVIEWER’S OPINION:
This was pretty good, but it wasn’t as emotionally fulfilling as I’d like. Most romance books have a guy very attracted to the girl and wanting her. Much of this story appears to her to be “he’s just not into her.” There is plenty of erotic explicit sex.

Once they are a couple, Rena frequently calls Steel “babe.” That didn’t sound right to me. Someone who uses “babe” implies they’ve been in relationships before, or seen their parents that way, or something which did not fit Rena at all. It was a disconnect. But it could be my own inexperience. I don’t know any people who call their lovers “babe.”

OTHER BOOKS:
This is part of the Cyborg Seduction series. I have not read them in order. I read #4 and 5 first, and I was fine with that. But someone else recommended reading them in order, which might be a good idea. Concilman Zorus has a minor part in several books. His part would be better if read in order. My ratings so far are:
Burning Up Flint #1
Kissing Steel #2 (3 stars)
Melting Iron #3
Touching Ice #4 (4 stars)
Stealing Coal #5 (4 stars)

DATA:
Ebook story length: about 1 hour 50 minutes. Kindle count story length: 3099 (283 KB). Swearing language: strong. Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: 8. Setting: future time traveling on spaceships. Copyright: 2010. Genre: erotic sci-fi romance.