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November 29, 2017
Review: Melting Iron
Melting Iron by Laurann DohnerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is story of Iron, the cyborg everyone wants to kill in the first book. However, this book might change your view on him. He is kind of lost and doesn't know how to take care of a human. He is adamant on getting a human slave for himself when Flint takes Mira back from him.
Dawn, however, I can say she is humorous, sarcastic with a temper. Iron struggles a lot to control her and it takes a while before he learns that he cannot control her. She is one of the best mechanic and he is in for a surprise. There isn't much different in the set up. As usual everything happens in the same set up, cyborg ship/world. More females show up with more twists.
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Review: Kissing Steel
Kissing Steel by Laurann DohnerMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book was better than the first one in the series.
Steel though looks hard on the outside, one of the sensitive cyborgs in the ship. He gets Rena from Flint and doesn't want to keep her, mostly because he didn't trust humans. Steel longs for a familial bond and the fact that his colony female replaced him so easily, create a scar so deep. Rena is afraid of what could happen to her if she were to given to another cyborgs. She also happens to know a secret code that would disable cyborg temporarily and she tries to seduce Steel to see reason to keep her as his possession.
The story follows Rena and Steel. Rena mostly trying to convince him and Steel trying to push her away. There are many characters I hate in this book. Flint is hardheaded as usual. I don't see much of a change in him.
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Review: Burning Up Flint
Burning Up Flint by Laurann DohnerMy rating: 1 of 5 stars
I did not know what to expect when I started reading this. Burning Up Flint is the first Cyborg book I read and it took a while to register the concept. It was confusing at most of the places and I couldn't help but hate Flint.
Flint kidnaps Mira, force her to have sex with him, treats her like a possession and keep her locked. When she tries to escape he solds her to another cyborg in the ship and takes her back after a lot of begging. The cyborg world the author created is good yet infuriating. I mean they care about nothing and their world is um... No comments. There is no real love between the characters, it is just based on sex. There is too much sex that at one point I just skipped whenever it came, which was too often.
After reading the other books by this author, my expectations ran high and I think that was one of the reason, I was disappointed with this one. I am sorry, I really do love New Species series and have ready every book at least twice. However, I can't say the same for this one.
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Review: Mating Brand
Mating Brand by Laurann DohnerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This is my favorite in this series.
Brandon and Charma has a past. Though they are enemies by nature, they fall in love during their younger years until fate tore them apart. Charma is now mated to a shifter of the same species. When she finds out about the secret plan of her pack to attack Brandon, she has no choice but to jump to his rescue. She risks her life just to warn him and when the lovers does comes face to face, Brandon doesn't let her go. It's mating season and the long lost passion is once again ignited under a single touch.
This book is really good. Brandon is a nice character and one of the characters that stands out in the pack. In the second book he reveals that he fell in love with another shifter and the readers could feel the pain and longing of his character, wishing in their minds that we have a story on him too. So here it is. Loved everything about this book. There is love, betrayal, pain, humor and action. I definitely recommend this book.
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Review: His Purrfect Mate
His Purrfect Mate by Laurann DohnerMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The concept is simple. Cats and Dogs, lol... Not literally but to some extent.
Shannon is a puma shifter who can't shift. Werewolves tend to hunt them down and kill them just for pleasure. Shannon lives away from the shifter community, but on one occasion, she is attacked and taken from the parking lot. Now perched on the tallest tree in the woods, she has no option to escape the werewolf shifters who are crazy.
Anton is line to be the next Alpha of the pack and he manages to save her the first time. The attraction between them is inevitable and she soon becomes his charge. He also decides to spend the mating season with her. Now, there are other puma shifters in this world. In a community were female non-shifting pumas were rare, they're used as breeding machines due to the higher success in pregnancy, unlike the shifter females.
This book has a graphic almost rape scene, so if you aren't comfortable with this stuff you should avoid it. Otherwise this story is far much better when compared to the first book in this series. It has more emotions and action to the story. The scenes between the puma and a werewolf is refreshing to read.
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Review: Hearts and Empires
Hearts and Empires by Cynthia GoMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
For everyone
who have their hearts broken,
their minds troubled,
their spirits crushed, and
their bodies trampled.
Hearts and Empires is divided into 5 parts:
(I) Love & Heartbreak
(II) Tales & Magic
(III) Grim & Darkness
(IV) Healing & Fire
(V) Love Letters To The Dead
After reading this, I honestly debated which part I liked more and decided I liked them all equally. I couldn't just pick one. The emotions in each part were raw. A few words conveyed thousands of unspoken feelings.
Each part, each prose/poetry left me with a longing. It left me wondering the fate of the individuals. I could feel their pain, their loss, their love, their longing. Some, where just magical, especially the Tales & Magic, it was that good. And some were just dark.
"Count my scars gently for it still hurts" made me so emotional. The single piece spoke volumes and gave me a full view into her painful past filled with agony and I felt my heart ache for her. I can list many more like "Forest Fire", "I love you as certain dark things are to be Love", "Love Letters to the dead", "Doubtful Heart", "Tell me something I didn't know", the list goes on. The beautiful choice of words made the reading experience delightful.
I've read a very few poetry and I can honestly say that this collection had my attention and it's a page turner, each word slowly seeping through your mind and settling down there. They are short and sweet.
I highly recommend this.
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