Testing Truth by Cynthia Sax
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A fun-loving cyborg gets serious about love.
Testing Truth
Truth lives each moment as though it were his last. The cyborg warrior rushes into danger, teases beings he shouldn’t provoke, accepts every call of adventure he encounters.
When a prissy little human princess floats into the Rebel structure Truth is occupying, seeking a mercenary to assist her and her unusual entourage, he volunteers to be her warrior. She claims their assignment is dangerous, warns him he might not survive the task.
That is exactly the type of fun he has been seeking.
Princess Nanette of the planet Royaume must rescue her estranged brother from an enemy prison ship. That is her duty, and she has been trained to always place the needs of her planet and her subjects before her own. Nancy doesn’t have the freedom to indulge her passions for a certain dark-haired, gray-skinned cyborg. Not permanently and not publicly.
But she is unable to resist the warrior. Truth, with his laughing eyes, smiling lips, and rough hands, tempts her as no one else ever has. He could be her one fleeting act of rebellion before she’s matched with the powerful ruler her planet requires.
If they survive their current mission.
Their love is doomed. Their lifespans are at risk. This cyborg and his princess will need the help of every ally they have if they wish to see another sunrise.
Another steamy cyborg romance!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭😤☺️🥰
The Hero: Truth – he is a D model cyborg warrior and loves battle and danger. When they arrive at a planet called Neriad Negative One, it is decided that Truth and Dissent will be a two-man team that will go down and explore the planet since North’s female is in the last stages of manufacturing their offspring (about to have their baby). Truth is excited because the planet is said to be a haven for outlaws and rebels and they often shoot down Humanoid Alliance ships and shuttles, which is what Truth and Dissent will be piloting, since the cyborgs stole their ships and shuttles from the Humanoid Alliance.
The heroine: Nanette (a.k.a. Nancy) – Princess of the planet Royaume, she was conceived as the spare heir. The crown prince and the prince were sent away from the palace to safety during the war with the Humanoid Alliance. While Nancy stayed with her parents and often played spy in dangerous situations while the Humanoid alliance occupied their planet.
The Story: – Nancy was desperately lonely and had been looking forward to seeing her brothers if only for a moment as the three of them were almost never in the same place at the same time for security reasons. Her cold, aloof parents told her that they recently found out that the younger prince never made it to safety but was taken prisoner by the Humanoid alliance and remains there. They don’t want the crown prince to go after the prince because the crown prince is too valuable to be put in danger.
Nancy is tasked with trying to help her younger brother (the spare to the spare), who is in the enemy prison. She is in need of a mercenary who is up for a possible suicide mission as she knows rescuing the prince is more important that her own safety. She was sure he had endured torture at the hands of the Humanoid Alliance. Though her task wouldn’t be easy, the prison was a vessel two sectors away and Humanoid Alliance prison ships were outfitted with modern weapons and advanced surveillance systems in addition to armed guards within the prison.
The story was a good one and I liked both Truth and Nannette, there were supporting characters which were also very good. The princess’s entourage for example. Everything was so proper at first, from her crown down to her gloves. The princess didn’t even use the word ‘I’ because she had to always think of the greater good and couldn’t be selfish at all.
“Do you always speak of yourself as though you’re another being?” Amusement lilted his voice.
“When one is in public, always.” She sighed. “It’s a verbal reminder that when one speaks, when one makes a decision, one is speaking, is making a decision, for all the beings one is responsible for protecting, for serving.” She drifted closer to him. “What one wants for oneself isn’t important.”
There was quite a bit of action and like the rest of Cynthia Sax’s books, it was quite steamy. I have really liked all her cyborg series so far and I like the world. The Human Alliance makes a great villain in all the books. They pretty much treat everyone from the cyborgs to other humans and humanoids about as bad as they possibly can. So, it is nice to see the characters getting payback against them.
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