Bk 1: Burning Up Flint
Bk 2: Kissing Steel
Bk 3: Melting Iron
Bk 4: Touching Ice
Bk 5: Stealing Coal
Bk 6: Redeeming Zorus
Bk 7: Taunting Krell
Books by Laurann Dohner
This book review isn’t for just one book, it’s for all
seven. Because I assure you, if you read
the fist one you won’t stop until you’ve read them all. I have a long list of books I’m working
through so that’s the reason why I’m just now getting to review these
books. And had I known they were this
good, I would have read them a lot sooner!
Book One is titled “Burning Up Flint” and like any first
book in a series, it’s pivotal for setting up the tone of the forth coming
books. This book was good, not my
favorite, but I’ll get to that in a bit.
Flint is a cyborg and in my
opinion they just don’t make enough erotica romance books about cyborgs.
Ms. Dohner sets up a great world. Far in the future, Earth scientists created
one step above and beyond androids when they took human DNA and grew these
massive warriors in cryo tubes. Stick a
few microcomputers in their heads, add a few enhanced things like strength and
healing and you got yourself a breathing sentient person who demands basic
human rights. And what do the human do
when they realize they can’t control their creations? They tried to terminate the whole race, of course. Luckily many survived by fleeing Earth and
settling up home on a new world.
Flint is a
commander and on a raid to steel parts and items, his ship commandeers a vessel
holding Mira. Immediately, Flint
takes Mira as “his” and brands her. Many
misunderstandings later, the two finally admit their love and all ends well...with a few bumps along the way. Now I know I summarized this into a very
short couple of sentences, but I want to comment about the series as a whole,
and not just this book.
Like I said earlier, this wasn’t my favorite in the series
but it was interesting enough to keep me reading the next one. And I’m glad because by the time I rolled
into the third, I was in love! My
favorites have started from the third on because I think by this time Ms.
Dohner really discovered this world she created and went with the flow. I loved Iron and Coal, in particular, and the women who is able to fall in love with these two cyborg men.
Now, here’s what sets this series apart from the
others. In many series, the voice of the
author never goes away. So you read one,
you’ve basically read them all, just substitute some names and bam…a finished
book. But each character in this series
is unique and not cookie cutter. Even
though the cyborgs maintain a certain robotic intensity, they are written
distinctly, as are the women they fall in love with. For example, in book one Flint
is in a breeding pact and must serve women to make sure children are
produced. Mira would rather die than
witness that. But in book four Ice has
produced something like twenty-eight children.
In book two the female, Rena is an insurance claim investigator and in
book five Jill hasn’t even finished school.
There are so many flavors in these books that there’s something for
everyone.
I'm not sure if Ms. Dohner is planning to write any more, but based on this series I'm going to look in her others, notably the New Speices.
I'm not sure if Ms. Dohner is planning to write any more, but based on this series I'm going to look in her others, notably the New Speices.
You can read more about all the books at Laurann’s website: http://www.lauranndohner.com/cyborg-seduction-series.php
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