Kissing Steel

Cyborg Seduction, Book 2

By: Laurann Dohner

Narrated by: Mindy Kennedy

Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins

Publisher's summary

Book 2 in the Cyborg Seduction series.

All Rena wanted was to steal back a spaceship and earn enough money to buy her freedom from her travesty of a life. Her mission to recover stolen property from pirates backfired and she became a possession when she encountered cyborgs instead. Now, one of them will own her. Rena is a survivor…and she wants the very tall, big, brutally sexy cyborg who doesn’t like to share anything that belongs to him.

Steel is beyond irritated when he is maneuvered into ownership of a fragile human female. She’s not nearly big enough to handle his size or strength, yet she’s determined to get him into bed - into her. Steel realizes just what this little female is capable of when he awakens, chained to his bed, with her riding his very turned-on body. For a man who prides himself on his unyielding control, Steel soon finds Rena stripping him of it an inch at a time.

©2010 Laurann Dohner (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Among my top 10

I love this series. I have almost 600 books in my library & this series is among my favorites. I prefer smexy romances with a decent narrator, interesting story line & good character development of strong heroes & heroines. I detest whining & never ending introspection of insecurities. If you are like me this entire series is well worth the credits!!

Jeaniene Frost, Thea Harrison, Suzanne Wright & Diane Duvall are also among my favorite paranormal romance writers.

Trigger alert!

There is a scene that is a very violent almost rape Other than that the book is very good and I hope you enjoy the series as much as I am

Owned by the Cyborg!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😠😚😁☺️
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Rena - she was part of a six-man crew on a ship called the Britton. They were farther out in space than she ever was before, chasing a lost ship called the Star. Her company had taken a huge loss when the ship was taken by pirates, so Rena wanted to get the big bonus for recovering the ship and recouping the company losses. It was supposed to buy her freedom and her retirement from her company.

The Hero: Steel - he was a cyborg who traveled the galaxy with other cyborgs. He hasn’t been with a female for a while because his wife had cheated on him. He doesn’t want anything to do with women now. He was an ultimate warrior and a virtual weapon and is over 6 feet tall and muscular with enough metal in him to make him lethal.

The Story: The recovery mission for the Star went completely wrong because her boss didn’t trust her and sent a second team. Her jerk of a husband was her boss’s boss and Rena knew he didn’t know about this. Rena wanted to divorce her husband and start a new life, but this turn of events was killing that dream. When seven large cyborgs boarded her ship, she was surprised. They weren’t supposed to exist anymore. They were a brutal species who were supposedly eradicated.

The cyborgs immediately treated Rena as a pleasure worker even after she explained that she works for Demco Insurance and that the Star belongs to her company. Though they said she would be owned by one of the men, and she chose Steel since she knew about spousal betrayal, and she was attracted to him. She was now owned by Steel though he wasn’t happy about it.

This was an odd one, since the Cyborgs were treated horribly by humans before the ones left were all killed. They have good reason to hate humans, but Rena is the one that is paying for it. She gets a lot of flak from the cyborgs. Though it is a good storyline and I liked it.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She isn’t one of the best narrators I have heard, but she is not bad and has a nice voice. Though she doesn’t have a bunch of different voices for men and women, so it was often hard to distinguish who was talking at any given moment. You have to listen to the clues in the content. I don’t really like that, but at least her voice isn’t annoying.

Much better than Book 1

Much more likeable female character & storyline than book 1. This one works. This timeline seems to be after book 1, but has the briefest cameo by Flint, none by his annoying woman. Kennedy's narration works ok.

Shut up and take my money!

Stop what you are doing and get this series. It's very seldom that I devour a series this quickly. But this universe is well thought out and the characters have real fears and flaws. (Seriously, the ladies especially do insane things at times.) The cyborgs are really an entirely separate species that just happened to get their start from humans. Nothing is perfect and everyone is doing the best they can for their situation. I don't even blame cyborgs for hating humans. These stories have really captured something for me. Please never stop!

No so vexing

Ok book 2 was a lot better to enjoy.....now with the little sneak peak of book 3 this author is slowly realing me in and I think this book will be the determining factor in continuing the series. This jerk iron came across as mean in book 1 so I hope his chosen human, female slave , give him a much harder time before she falls in lust/love....

Love Steel

This was a great audio listen. Reason for the four stars is Rena. Steel's human, to me, was very annoying. She seemed to play with him and play with his "logical" thinking. I loved his persistence and goodness for that. All these Cyborgs have so much soul, it's makes you love all the more.

Silly

I've perused this series and found the writing to be silly and sophomoric. The heroines are brats and the heroes are 1 dimensional characters written solely to bounce off the actions and musings of the over-the-top, obnoxious heroine. Toss in a few bizarre scenes that feel like high school girl fan fiction and you have this series.

Naomi Lucas writes a more adult cyborg romance series.

Mindy Kennedy does a fine job narrating.

Dissapointed - This one was a little flat

This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?

I have read the books out of order so compared to the others, this one was a little flat. The story line was not that interesting and truthfully you could skip this one and not miss anything in the series.

What was most disappointing about Laurann Dohner’s story?

It really didn't have a story line and the hype regarding the love interest was not that intriguing. These character just didn't appeal to me. It appears that the author was a little confused as to how to develop the plot and the characters.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Disappointment

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