Redeeming Zorus by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Charlie’s brother has put her in the no-win situation of having to rescue a cyborg from Earth Government. It’s dangerous, she’ll become an outlaw on Earth, but it’s the only way to save her brother’s life. The imprisoned cyborg is rude, conceited, and probably the biggest jerk she’s ever had the misfortune to meet. His only redeeming qualities are his handsome face and sexy, muscular body. Just wow! Still, she can’t wait to be rid of him.

Cyborgs hate humans, but Zorus is consumed by it. Chained, enslaved and facing death on Earth once again, he vows revenge. To his utter astonishment, a human female comes to rescue him. She is mouthy, rude, and bossy. And very brave. She baffles him almost as much as she arouses him. Zorus cannot deny that he is fascinated by her. They are about to lock wills and ignite a firestorm of desire that defies every rule he lives by.

Redeeming Zorus

Zestful of rights undermining supremacy

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

The heroine: Charlie – she grew up in a poor neighborhood and lifted herself out, she is now working as a computer programmer for the government. Her older brother is always getting into trouble, and she always has to get him out of it. This time it is a gambling debt he owes and to get him out of it she has to break out a high value cyborg that is being held by the government.

The Hero: Zorus – he has featured in many of the previous books because he is on the cyborg council and is known for being a jerk. He hates all humans, and most cyborgs hate humans because they were created by humans, used by humans and nearly put to death by humans. However, Zorus hates them more than anyone, he hates and distrusts all humans even those that have helped the cyborgs, even human females that married cyborgs. He is the council member responsible for the law that says that humans on their home world are property and are basically slaves. Though in the last book, Zorus was sold to humans and is now back on Earth, being tortured by humans, so he has every reason to keep hating them.

The story: Charlie breaks Zorus out of the facility where she works and where he is being held. He doesn’t disguise his hatred of humans despite the fact that she is the only one around that is helping him escape. They bicker and fight the whole time, amid the danger and suspense of sneaking out. Charlie plans on leaving with her brother to Saturn after getting away and getting paid in order to start a new life.

Charlie’s brother double crosses her at the last moment and takes all the money for himself and sells her to her married ex-boyfriend who plans to keep her as a mistress on the moon. She will be a captive and not allowed to leave. Luckily, Zorus turns around and pays much more money for her than the wealthy ex-boyfriend. I liked how Zorus started to see a different side of humans through Charlie and when he found himself getting attracted to her, it was a great vindication after how he acted in the last few books.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. I find that I am liking her narration more and more as the series goes on. She has a great voice and has been getting better at having different voice inflections or accents for different characters. Also, I have been binging this series one after another and have not yet gotten sick of her voice.

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