Loving Deviant by Laurann Dohner

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

After barely surviving a horrific accident, then being held captive for years by Earth Government, Venice must escape the planet. She thinks she’s found the answer to her prayers when she contracts to be a deep-space bride—only to find herself facing an even bigger nightmare. Hiding from her con man “husband” aboard his space station, she comes across an intimidating cyborg…one who could just be her last hope.

Deviant is humiliated when his father suggests he visit a pleasure center to make use of a sex bot. True, the defects he was born with have assured female cyborgs will never consider adding him to a family unit. But he still has his pride. The woman who enters the room, however, is incredibly lifelike, and she quickly has Deviant feeling things he’d never dreamed—right until the moment he finds out she’s human. Sort of…

Venice needs Deviant’s help to get off the space station. Deviant is lonely, and in need of someone to teach him how to pleasure a female. They strike a bargain, one that has Venice giving up her freedom. But soon it’s her heart that’s at greater risk. It’s easy loving Deviant…even when others are determined to make it difficult.

Loving Deviant

Great backstories!

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

The heroine: Venice – she is on a space station where she was running from Darvis who had charmed her via vid chats. Though he had been catfishing her to be his mail order bride. When she got there he was going to make her be his slave labor in his brothel. She’d been desperate enough to marry a stranger after being in an accident and trapped in a bed for four years. She had been scarred and crippled until she was given improved limbs.

The Hero: Deviant – he is a second generation cyborg, born as a free male on the planet garden where the cyborgs escaped to after escaping the government on earth. He is the son of Malvo who was friends and a father figure to Cyan in Taunting Krell. Now Deviant is a man in his own right and often goes on missions in space for the cyborgs, he has a high status in the community. Though he is considered undesirable among the female cyborgs because his skin is darker grey than most.

The story: Malvo takes his son Deviant to a pleasure ship to have his first intimate experience with a sex bot. Venice was hiding in a brothel for sex bots when she overhears Deviant and Malvo talking and she finds out Deviant is a 35 year old virgin who thinks no female would ever want him due to his imperfections. Venice knew immediately they were cyborgs and though Deviant was handsome.

Venice had a really cool backstory about how she got her upgrades and how she was treated after her accident. I liked her and her story. I also liked Deviant’s story about how the females on his planet didn’t want him. This was probably the best of the series so far.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She has done a terrific job with this series, I have listened to eight books in this series back to back and haven’t gotten tired of the narration at all. I usually dislike solo narration but haven’t minded this series at all. Similar to Laurann Dohner’s VLG series which I also loved.

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