Releasing Rage by Cynthia Sax

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers. 

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance’s most primitive cyborg, has two goals — kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that’s all he’s been programmed to experience. 

Until he meets Joan. 

Joan, the battle station’s first female engineer, has one goal — survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice. 

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage’s priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg’s heart for both love and revenge?

Releasing Rage

Good cyborg romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🤨😟😳😍

The heroine: Joan – since she was eleven and was rescued from an attack by a cyborg, Joan wanted to be a cyborg mechanic. She went to the Academy and faced a lot of bullying and derision since this was a male dominated field and nobody wanted females to break into it. Now she was a full fledged engineer and the all male staff on the Battle Station near the front lines of the war against the mindless Mantidae. Where every cyborg had a handler (mechanic, engineer) to make sure they were in working order for each deployment. Joan was finally assigned a cyborg.

The Hero: Rage – he was a cyborg on the front lines of the war, and he had more kills than any other cyborg. So, when he finally went into a rage and killed the engineer who had been torturing him and experimenting on him, they didn’t immediately decommission him, instead they gave him a female handler who was different than the rest.

The Story: Joan’s boss hated her and wanted her dead, like all the other men on the Battle Station. That is why she was pulled off waste processing duty and finally given her own C model cyborg. They all expected him to kill her immediately after he tore his last engineer to pieces. Though she made him see that she was different from the others and only wanted to serve him.

The story is interesting. I like most of how the relationship is built between Joan and Rage, though the beginning is kind of odd. Joan comes in to clean up Rage, who is all bloody from tearing apart her predecessor, and he tells her to get naked, saying that since he is naked, she should be as well. So she just starts taking off her clothes. Though she was afraid he might kill her, taking off her clothes is still very weird.

I really liked the fact that the cyborgs were planning to escape, especially since all the engineers were pretty much abusing them and if they put up any kind of resistance or complained they would be decommissioned (used for parts). Not to mention the fact that the Alliance was using them as basically cannon fodder for their war. As sentient beings they just wanted to be free. Also, I could understand why Rage hated all humans and took so long to trust Joan.

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