Seizing Power by Cynthia Sax

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This cyborg believes he’s in control.

Power is the self-appointed leader of the cyborg council. Other members might debate situations. He makes the ultimate decisions.

When a threat to the Homeland is revealed, he takes command of a fleet and ventures to the edge of cyborg-controlled space to investigate. He finds a rebellion led by a mysterious upstart he calls Cadet.

The plan Power derives is simple—he’ll quickly quash the uprising and teach its leader a lesson the warrior will never forget.

NO ONE challenges his authority.

Eirene Ours might have been called a cadet by Power but she is NOT his subordinate. She is the arrogant E Model’s genetic match.

For much of her mature lifespan, she has desired the male, yearning for his dark-eyed gaze, craving his sure hands, longing for his respect.

That esteem was never granted. And Eirene Ours can no longer wait to earn it. There’s an external threat to their kind, a danger that might destroy them all.

Having lured Power to her home terrain, she now plans to use everything within her means – her fists, her daggers, her ship-destroying missiles – to pound that truth into her stubborn warrior’s thick metal skull.

The future of every cyborg is at stake. She can’t fail them.

Power will believe her. Or he will die.

Seizing Power

When two alpha leaders come together!

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

The Hero: Power – he is the self-appointed leader of the Cyborg Council and has been since the cyborg rebellion and the founding of Homeworld (the first planet that the cyborgs found and took as their own. He is an E model and is set in his ways. He makes the ultimate decisions about what the cyborgs should be focusing on, and in building their society to make sure they are protected so they will never again be under the control of others like the Humanoid Alliance. He once made a wrong decision that had catastrophic consequences for everyone he loved and it endangered Homeworld. He promised himself after that, he would keep himself at a distance from others in order to make more informed decisions.

The heroine: Eirene Ours (a.k.a. Cadet) – she is the first freeborn Cyborg and only freeborn cyborg female, the product of a cyborg C model father and a human mother. Her mother and father first located on the planet of Mercury Minor because her father was damaged and saw other cyborgs as a threat, they still live on their own land. Eirene has known for a long time that Power was her fated mate. Though she hated him with a vengeance. At one point he called her Cadet because he thought she was just an underling of no value. She never shows her face to him when she intercepts his communications and speaks with him and uses a voice modulator, so he thinks she is a male.

The Story: – Cadet has asked Power many times for permission to retrieve cyborgs that were left alone during the cyborg rebellion, either still in the hands of the Humanoid Alliance or abandoned on various planets throughout the galaxy as slaves, on dead planets with no way off or being sold for parts. He didn’t think that was the primary mission of their people, so she gathered a team and does retrieval on the down low. However, the Humanoid Alliance is becoming a problem again and he won’t listen to her arguments, so she means to show him how wrong he is about not getting involved.

“I have more urgent priorities”.
And he would never again assign retrieval missions to warriors. That task was too dangerous to force his brethren to undertake.
You have more urgent priorities. The simulated laugh on the transmission line held no humor. Like adding fifteen levels to J Model Structure 2? Is that more urgent than saving the lifespans of our brethren?

I liked this story from the start, especially since in every book prior to this one in the series, we have seen Cadet as the strong leader of the retrieval teams and Power as the stiff and uncompromising leader of the council who is unwilling to see the big picture. So, when he hears that over 5000 cyborgs, plus many humanoids and humans have been detected on Mercury Minor, he is determined to investigate the situation himself. Cadet is ready for war.

I liked the story, but I didn’t like the female domination vibes that were throughout their intimate scenes. Power was into pain and liked it when Cadet kicked him and stepped on him during their battle. There was also a scene where she made him kiss her boots and more. I mean people like what they like and that is ok, but I like more of a take charge kind of alpha Hero, not one that likes being beaten down and dominated. Other than that, I did like the two badass characters and their story was a good one.

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