Stealing Coal by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jill has learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted and sex only causes pain. In the lawlessness of space, women are a sexual commodity—to be used and abused. She’s doing a man’s job, with only her father’s brutal reputation and three androids to help keep her alive when she sees a massive, handsome cyborg chained to a freight table. The abusive crew plans to sell him to fight in gruesome death matches. It’s stupid, it’s insane, but Jill can’t leave him to such a horrible fate.

Coal has survived being a captive breeding slave and irreversible damage to his cyborg implants, but his honor is still intact. He’s grateful Jill saved him and he’ll repay her the only way he can. He’ll fix her—with his mouth, his hands and his body. He can teach the little human just how much pleasure she’s capable of feeling.

Stealing Coal

Coal’s story!

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

The heroine: Jill – her father died a year ago and was one of the most brutal men in the business. Jill now runs his trading business on her own, staying safe on the basis of her father’s reputation. She knows space isn’t safe for a lone woman. Women are used for one thing in space, so she adds to the cruelty of her fathers reputation whenever she can talk about it.

The Hero: Coal – he was a character in the last two books, we first saw him as a captive of all the cyborg women who were stranded on a desolate planet. He was used as their captive breeder and they made him father multiple children with the women. We next saw him in the last book when he bravely chose to stay behind on a ship that was on fire to give up the pods to our last books main couple. But when Meagan decided to go into a one-person pod with Ice, then Coal decided to do the same with a council member.

The story: While on a trading mission, Jill comes across Coal, a cyborg who was captured and is now chained to a freight table in the ship where she just conducted her business. The crew plans to sell Coal to fight in a gladiator type fight to the death. The men are punching Coal while he is chained up and have a much worse fate for him in mind. Jill wouldn’t want that fate for anyone, so she frees Coal and they escape together.

You have to feel for Coal and all he has suffered. He was held by the cyborg females for quite a long time and kept escaping them for months at a time. Those same women chained him naked to a bed and damaged the processors in his head so bad that the med teams were unable to fix them so now he can’t communicate with any onboard computers or any of his cyborg counterparts through his mind.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She has been doing a great job on this series and I like her voice and her narration. She doesn’t really have different voices for men and women, but she is still pretty good and there are a few different accents she uses for women.

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