Kissing Steel by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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.

Kissing Steel

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.

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