Melting Iron

Cyborg Seduction, Book 3

By: Laurann Dohner

Narrated by: Mindy Kennedy

Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Being a female mechanic on a space station for eight years has taught Dawn a lot of tough life lessons that have hardened her heart. She’s got a temper and a mouth to match her red hair and has never backed away from a challenge.

Then she’s kidnapped and blackmailed into agreeing to be a cyborg’s personal sex slave. Iron is one big bastard with long, fiery red hair, intense, dark blue eyes and a stubborn streak as thick as his dense muscles. If Iron thinks he can tame her, he’s about to learn that “meek” is not in Dawn’s vocabulary. But with that handsome face, a body to die for, a wickedly talented tongue and those magical hands, the guy just doesn’t fight fair.

Dawn is intent on melting Iron’s icy resolve to never fall in love with a human. He’s winning her heart and she’s determined to win his right back. These two redheads have just met their matches. Let the battle for love begin.

Reader Advisory: The big cyborg using his “research” on his new captive during a smoking-hot bondage scene. Woot!

©2010 Laurann Dohner (P)2013 Audible Inc.

Really hot!!

I didn't think I would like Iron, but he was a steamy surprise!! Hot, hot, hot!!!

melting iron!

I was skeptical but man oh baby! so far I think I like this hero best! his character development is so luscious sexy hot sweet and and and.......... I'm pleasantly surprised with this series I didn't think I'd like it this much super enjoyable!

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.

like all her series so far

lots of different scenes of how to get into trouble and then out of it

Iron can Melt me any day !!

Any additional comments?

Dawn has spent the last eight years working onboard a space station as chief mechanic on an all-woman crew. When she and four other women are grabbed off their shuttle by gray-skinned cyborgs – enhanced beings that aren't supposed to be alive anymore – and thrown into a cage on their ship, she's sure that they're all going to be killed for spare body parts. To save her young friend from such a horrendous death, she agrees to be Iron's personal slave. She'll do whatever he asks, including having sex with him, if it'll spare her young friend from being hacked up for useable parts. One look at Iron in the nude however, and she begins to wonder if slavery might have some fringe benefits.

Having no intention of cutting anyone up for parts, Iron doesn't mind taking advantage of the sexy little red-headed spitfire. All he wants is a human woman just like Flint and Steel have, but he's not about to let Dawn take over his life, like the women Flint and Steel have chosen. There is no way that he'll ever let Dawn get any closer to than sex allows. No sir, he wasn't about to let her get under his skin and make him need her worse than he needed his next breath. And he damn sure wasn't about to trust her. What he doesn't realize is, in Dawn's way of thinking, that road goes both ways. If he owns her, well she damn well owns him too. And not even the Cyborg Council is going to make her share him.

Good book but

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

No, because it's the same as book 1 & 2

Who was your favorite character and why?

none

Which character – as performed by Mindy Kennedy – was your favorite?

Iron

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

Breeding Pack

Any additional comments?

I have like all 3 books, but I think the author needs more imagination. They are all basically the same book revisited with different names.

Two people with iron wills!

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

The heroine: Dawn - she was a mechanic on a space station and had been for eight years. She had been out with some other women on a shuttle traveling back and forth between earth. She and other women from the shuttle were taken captive after their shuttle was boarded. She knew it wasn’t pirates that took her, since space pirates are humans that have been made crazy and deformed by radiation exposure. But the grey men that took her were something different.

The Hero: Iron - he is a cyborg. Cyborgs were created in labs on earth and were born with metal skeletons and computer chips in their brains. They are different than what we traditionally think of as Cyborgs which are humans with parts replaced with metal or computer chips. Though some of that was done as well, but they were born as cyborgs and can reproduce with other cyborgs. Iron is tall, muscular and handsome with grey skin and long hair.

The Story: Dawn thinks she will die soon after being captured by the cyborgs. She thinks they will be used for spare parts, like organs that they cyborgs may need as replacements. Though that is not what they use humans for. Cyborgs were mistreated by humans for years before humans found that cyborgs were born with souls, and they couldn’t control them. At that point, humans tried to destroy all of them, but many had escaped to outer space.

Dawn tries to escape and fights back against the cyborgs since she thinks she will die soon anyway. She takes one down and is ready to fight the next one that comes to get her from the cargo area where they are being kept. When she was caught by Iron, she had to give up and was afraid for the other woman who was with her, so she agreed to be owned by Iron and agreed to be in his bed in exchange for them not using the women for parts. Though that turned out to just be a rumor and not what cyborgs actually do with humans.

I am not sure I liked Dawn as a person. At times she acted so tough and almost like a guy because she has been a woman in a mans job and goes on and on about the fact that she is a mechanic. But she was too forward and man like for my tastes. At times, that is. Because before long she was whining over and over about the fact that Iron leaves her alone all day. Yet instead of asking if she could work on his ship, she just begs for him to spend time with her.

I also have a bit of a hard time with how easily the women in this series so far accept the fact that they are basically slaves. I mean even if the cyborgs they are with don’t see them that way, everybody else in the cyborg society sees them as owned by their mates. In this one, Iron even says that if Dawn ever killed a cyborg she would have no rights. Even true love wouldn’t be enough to be treated like a slave or be owned in any way.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She has a pleasant voice, though she sounds pretty much the same no matter what character she is voicing. So she isn’t one of my favorites, but I like this series so far, so I purchased most of them.

4 Melting Iron Stars

Iron… Iron and I don’t see eye to eye at the beginning and I think that is why I rooted for Dawn so hard, she was feisty. She doesn't let Iron walk all over her. She fights back. Fights for what she wants. I really enjoyed that part of their story.

Trust plays a big part of Cyborg life and past and present. Most all the stories have trust to be had and fight for. Really like that this is part of these stories. It’s not always about love and lust but trust on both sides really plays a big part. And I like that we see that with these big guys. When they have to learn to trust the humans just as the humans have to trust the Cyborgs not to hurt or harm them for being human.

Again a great book! I am looking forward to continuing my marathon of this series!

*You don't have to like my review but its 100% my opinion, and I am allowed to have it.*

Sweet Iron

Such a bad ass. That's how he wanted to come off. But you could tell that he was afraid of being rejected. He wanted his own little human. These cyborgs come off being all bad ass but underneath they really just want love and to be loved. I love me a cyborg.

I think I'm done reading this series

I am going against what most people think as the series has great reviews. I really enjoyed book 1 and book 2 was good but, the familar pattern started to appear. They are all from the same plot, but with each subsequent story the resolution becomes even more contrived. Its always the same thing. Hero gets saddled with heroine who doesn't want him either. Then the hero spends pretty much the entire book trying to win her over. When he does, they are hit with "his duty" to his people, she's upset, then some corney reason is put in place saving them from his fate. All of them follow the same storyline just change the names. The sex scences are very repetative and the same in very book.
I may give the series another try if, the books come on sale. But to me the rest of the books in the series would not be worth a credit.
I gave the book 3 stars rather than 2 because Mindy Kennedy is such a fantastic narrator and she made the book entertaining.