An Alien Cyborg for January by Lindy Moonhill
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A woman damaged by her past… January Jones had no idea her best friend’s destination wedding would end up with her lost in space, kissing an alien, kidnapped by space pirates, and evading being sold into slavery. The wounded warrior pledged to protect her…
An Alien Cyborg for January
Thankfully, Drax’ryl, a seven-foot tall, green scaled alien warrior cyborg won’t stop fighting for her until he’s found her and brought her safely home. And circumstances that thrust them together… Although sparks begin to fly, both January and Drax’ryl have reasons not to give into love. But when January and Drax’ryl find themselves evading the clutches of a mob boss who wants his own human pet, they’re forced to pretend they’re mated, and the lines between fantasy and reality begin to blur.
Can January and her alien cyborg let go of their insecurities and doubts long enough to experience true love? This spicy Alien Abduction of the Month romance is for mature adult audiences only.
Not as good as I had hoped!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗
World building: 🌏🌍🌎
Character development: 😔😘
The heroine: January – she went into robotics because she was an introvert with social anxiety who didn’t really like people. They made her feel self conscious and inadequate. She had been saving since college to open her own company but still didn’t have the funds. Her best friend, December was soon to become the queen of an alien planet and January was happy for her but still could barely believe aliens existed. Though January was soon to be the bonding witness at December’s bonding ceremony.
The Hero: Drax’ryl – he was a Rivian male and felt tremendous guilt because his ship crashed and he had life threatening injuries, which allowed slavers to capture the future queen. He was saved by robotic components and is now a cyborg and captain of the guard for the king and queen. He sees himself as less since he is part machine, a cyborg half-breed, even though he is now stronger and has more abilities than before.
The Story: Since Rivian’s were struck by a terrible plague, they don’t have enough females to continue their race and had been searching throughout the universe for compatible races. When they found Earth and December fell in love with King Ja’rynn, Drax’ryl had come to earth with the former Prince. They set up the Rivian-Earthling Attachmnet Program which offered high compensation for females to see if they matched with a Rivian Male. January didn’t sign up because she was afraid a match wouldn’t be found for her. Though thousands of women did sign up.
I liked the storylines in this book and loved the fact that January was into robotics, though some of the science fiction was far to fictional for my liking. For instance, the fact that they could travel between Rivia and Earth in less than a day. It would take longer by plane to go places on earth than it took them to travel to Earth from Rivia to pick up January for the bonding festivities. I can’t imagine that even with wormhole travel and hyper speed that a spaceship could move that far that fast, and there was no mention of stargates or anything of that nature.
It is also funny in science fiction how many things can be explained away by the use of nanotechnology. In this book, a nanite patch is used for a translator. I did like the fact that their clothes were made of some kind of temperature controlling technology so you would never be too warm or too cold. Though this isn’t part of the science, there was the fact that January’s best friend just happened to be named December? Unless their mothers were also best friends, that seems mighty coincidental. I actually rolled my eyes more than once while reading this, like when Drax’ryl had to give January a piggyback ride down a mountain while hiking and she ended up having the big ‘O’ the whole time.
“Why are you straddling my master’s exterior reproductive organs, human female?” the robot asked, tilting its head to the side. It continued, “And Master, why are your hands fondling her lactation ports?”
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