Haunting Blackie by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Eve’s mission is to rescue cyborgs from termination centers on Earth. She is blindsided by the overwhelming attraction that draws her to one of them. He’s handsome, sexy, and she wants him, craves his touch as she has no other. She must send him to freedom but she makes him promise to wait for her.

Blackie cannot forget the courageous woman who saved him. He never learned whether she died during the rebellion or just changed her mind about leaving with him but he holds her within his lonely heart. He exists to serve the Cyborg Council and protect the new world cyborgs have created. This changes when he discovers the woman who haunts his dreams is alive and the cyborg leaders left her behind to die. He’ll never lose her again and he’ll fight his own kind to avenge and keep her.

Haunting Blackie

Blackie isn’t so bad!

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

The heroine: Eve – she worked in the cyborg termination centers and did her best to help and rescue the cyborgs, letting them out of their cages and giving them codes to transport vehicles. Though there was one that affected her more than any of the others. She planned to meet up with him again someday but never did. She was caught by the guards and severely punished for her part in freeing the cyborgs.

The Hero: Blackie – he is a cyborg that was thoroughly tortured by humans. They exacted revenge for his defiance. He refused a direct order by the guards, to step inside the large room that he knew was an incinerator. While he was down, a woman came to him showing compassion. She released him and helped get him out of there during the rebellion in which the cyborgs escaped. He never forgot that woman.

The story: Blackie escaped and hid out on earth with other cyborgs until they could all leave. He searched for the woman he knew as Hellfire, but she wasn’t on any of the ships that left earth and he assumed she died. Many years after the rebellion and the cyborgs escaped from earth to form their own home on a planet called garden. Blackie still wakes up from nightmares about the time he was tortured and escaped. He still thought of Hellfire and wondered if she died or was an older woman on earth now.

When Eve and her sister are out in space in a cargo ship, they get into a fight with some space pirates, their ship is no longer functional and stranded, when Blackie and his compatriots board the ship to see if there are any survivors. He finds Eve, whom he knew as Hellfire, but she has changed. She doesn’t look any older and there is a good reason for that.

This was quite a surprise and different than the other books, most of which have human females as heroine’s. The last book had a heroine that used to be human but was now part cyborg herself, but this one has the heroine as something completely different. I liked the characters, but didn’t really like what these girls are. Blackie was a bad guy in previous books, but he changed in this one and felt remorse for what he did. I liked him much better than I expected.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She has a great voice and I have listened to this entire series back to back and have not tired of her voice or narration style. Though I do like dual or duet narration much better than Solo, I have come to really enjoy Mindy’s narration.

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