Containing Malice by Cynthia Sax

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This tormented cyborg craves vengeance…and her.
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Malice, a C Model cyborg, has spent his long lifespan enslaved by the Humanoid Alliance. His cruel manufacturers have hurt him in all the ways a male could be hurt.

His enemy has now added a new weapon to their arsenal—a tiny human medic with soft hands and a delectable scent. She experiments on him multiple times a shift, delivering pain…and frustration.

He wants her. He also seeks retribution.

Once Malice frees himself, he plans to achieve both of his goals, taking Medic Illona captive and ending her research…permanently.

Illona is as much a prisoner as the cyborgs she experiments on. Since her arrival at the Human Alliance’s secret laboratory, she has carefully, stealthily, crafted a plot to free her test subjects. To conceal her covert activities, the medic has been forced to harm beings rather than heal them.

The being she has damaged the most is also the cyborg she fiercely desires— Malice, a huge, gray-skinned, blue-eyed C Model with massive hands and a voice deeper than space. He hates her, has good reason to do so, and, when he’s freed, there’s a high probability he’ll kill her.

Illona will take that risk to ensure he survives.
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Containing Malice is a STANDALONE enemies-to-lovers Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

Containing Malice

Cyborgs and Zombies!

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

The heroine: Illona – she was a medic and a captive of the Humanoid Alliance who wanted to create a biological weapon. They had injected her under her chin with some sort of bomb and if she stepped foot outside the facility she would be blown to dust. They also put an unknown substance in her soda which causes her unending pain. She was tempted to step over the line and end it all, but she wanted to help the beings inside that were worse off than she was. Also, she and the other medics knew that if they died with their brains intact, they would be reanimated and experimented on, which was a fate much worse.

The Hero: Malice – he was a cyborg that was used by the Humanoid Alliance for research and development. He was a C model, trained to be a warrior and a breeder. But now his life consisted of a tiny cell and daily tortuous experiments. He longed to escape and he could if it was just himself, but he wouldn’t leave without his friend Valor. The threat of decommissioning Valor is what kept him in line. Though some day they would escape and Illona, the medic that tortured him daily was at the top of his list of people he would kill on his way out.

The Story: Illona and her friend medic Febris had been waiting for the opportunity to free Malice and Valor and this rotation was finally time, though they knew it would mean their deaths. She and her friend were ready to die and could no longer take the abuse and experimentation that even they had to endure. Illona and Febris did what they could to help Malice and Valor escape, allowing them to contact free cyborgs for a way off the planet. Malice didn’t know what Illona had been through, and what she had done all along to ease his suffering as much as possible.

I loved the fact that one of the things the Humanoid Alliance was experimenting on were called “The Resurrected”. They were basically reanimated dead humans (a.k.a. Zombies). That were in so much pain they basically just tried to kill themselves over and over, but couldn’t since they were already dead. Oh, and they were rotting as well since their flesh was dead.

I had read a few other books in this series and really liked them. This one was also very good from the start. I wish I could afford more of them, but I spent more than my years allotment on books and audiobooks already. Maybe next year, because I do love me some cyborgs. I do have a few of Cynthia Sax’s free short reads left, I will probably check those out, though I really dislike books under 200 pages and those are like less than 75 pages.

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