Melting Iron by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Book 3 in the Cyborg Seduction series. 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!

Melting Iron

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.

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