Taunting Krell by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Krell hates humans. They left him scarred and undesirable to females. He’s lived a lonely existence in his home world because of their brutality. He is angry when he’s ordered to interrogate the captured human but she’s the enemy, a soldier from Earth. He’ll show her the same mercy they showed him. None.

Cyan didn’t expect to survive her mission against the Marcus Models but she was stunned and elated when she was confronted by cyborgs. The past and present collide when she sees Krell. He is part of a dangerous secret from another life but he is completely irresistible to her.

Krell is persuaded to keep Cyan in his home while he learns everything about her. He’s certain she can’t be trusted but she uses her body to distract him. He’s determined to keep her at a distance but Cyan is just as determined to get the big, sexy cyborg into her bed.

Taunting Krell

Cyan is so awesome!

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

The heroine: Cyan – After breaking a general’s thumb for grabbing her butt, she is sent on a possible suicide mission to recover Marcus model androids who were deadly, dangerous and nearly impossible to kill. The Marcus models all look alike, and their AI is all messed up. They became sentient and self-aware but have no morality. Cyan is a computer programmer and a spaceship pilot and was sent to a space station that was nearly decimated by the Marcus models.

The Hero: Krell – He is a cyborg who was in the rebellion on earth. He was tortured and scarred and hates humans because of it. Since then, he has become one of the best human interrogators on the cyborg planet. He can easily tell if a human is telling the truth or not by touching their pulse points. Many think he has become crazy recently.

The story: Cyan was sent on the mission without any armed soldiers to back her up. When she gets to the space station, she finds most of the humans had died and she finds one Marcus model near death, she puts it out of its misery. Though she finds out that someone else had docked on the station after her, so she isn’t alone. She is troubled when she sees the men are not Marcus models, but cyborgs. She was so surprised that they survived, and she surrendered to them.

There was some backstory in this book about who or what Cyan really is and what her father did to her to keep her alive. Even if she wanted to, she couldn’t tell the cyborgs because of something in her brain which prevented her from saying certain things. Krell is brought in to interrogate Cyan.

I must say that I loved Cyan. She doesn’t hold back when she tells the cyborg council what she thinks of some of their laws. The fact that she is singularly knowledgeable about the subject made that scene even better. I have been thinking all of those same things since the beginning of this series, so I was cheering her on.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She has done a great job and I am liking her more and more with each book in this series. She has a terrific voice and displays emotion through her voice very well.

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