Baring Grudge by Cynthia Sax

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

No one in the universe is more determined than a cyborg warrior tracking his female.
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Grudge, a C Model cyborg, has been assigned a mission – safeguard a Humanoid Alliance space station for his kind. Honor was once all he had, and he is determined to fulfill his duty.

That resolve is tested when a tiny human female enters the space station and sets the prettiest little explosives the warrior has ever seen. She is Grudge’s genetic match, the one being manufactured for him. He wants to touch her, kiss her, claim her in all ways, but first he has to stop her from blasting him into the next galaxy.

Taelyn has a self-appointed mission—to destroy every battle robot the Humanoid Alliance has ever manufactured. A huge gray-skinned, blue-eyed cyborg warrior with mismatched arms won’t prevent her from achieving her goal. She’ll escape him, leaving destruction in her wake.

Before she departs, she’ll experience one toe-curling moment of hatred-edged passion with her handsome foe. She’ll show him how skilled with detonations she truly is. He will have his universe rocked.

Then she’ll disappear.

Her cyborg, however, has no intention of ever letting her go.

Baring Grudge

One armed bandits!

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

The Hero: Grudge – he is a cyborg (a ‘C’ Model) and has mismatched arms since he was blown up on a mission for the Humanoid Alliance. After the cyborgs rebelled against the alliance and Cadet started to find and free more cyborgs that were left behind, she found Grudge in a used goods market for an embarrassingly low price. She bought him, put him back together and he was now a warrior for the cyborgs. He loved to blow things up, it was his favorite thing to do.

The Story: when Strain’s female told them that one of the 5 moons over her planet wasn’t actually a moon, but a huge Humanoid Alliance space station. Grudge thought of nothing but blowing up the planet sized station. Cadet said since the station held so many A class warships, they would have to have one cyborg stay behind to guard the station while the rest of them flew some of the warships back to their home planet and got more pilots and returned for the rest of the ships and ammunition. Grudge volunteered to stay behind so he could be the one to blow up the space station once they returned and got all the ships relocated.

The heroine: Taelyn – she is from the peaceful planet of Antares II, and she is on a mission to save the universe from killer robots and the Humanoid Alliance. Her target is a space station disguised as a moon off the planet of Rohini 9. She plans to destroy the station and everything in it, including class A warships, weapons and hundreds of thousands of the killer robots. She is also in charge of a young girl named Jasny who kept sneaking aboard Taelyn’s ship till she finally gave up and let the girl stay.

I liked the fact that Grudge, Taelyn and Jasny all had lost one of their arms due to the actions of the Humanoid Alliance, they all have one mechanical arm. Taelyn had lost hers when a warrior for the Humanoid Alliance cut it off because she touched one of their robots. That is one of the reasons she hates the Alliance and their robots.

The characters were great in this one, there were some of the same cyborgs as in the previous book, and I liked Jasny and how much Taelyn loved the little girl. Taelyn was a great character as she stole from the space stations before blowing them up and sold the items for credits that used for a good reason. The story was great, and Grudge was as funny in this book as in the previous one.

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