Choosing Chuckles by Cynthia Sax

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

A Cynical Cyborg Meets A Bad, Bad Female.

Chuckles hates all humans. In the past, humans betrayed him. That treachery caused permanent damage to his muscular form, resulting in a lifespan of pain.

When the primitive D Model cyborg answers a distress call sent by a pink-and-blue haired, sparkly human female, he knows it’s a trap. He still has to respond to her fake cry for help. She belongs to him, is the one being genetically fabricated for him. But he plans to be her captor, not her captive.

Bettina, aka Bait, works with a team of females, snaring sexual predators in space, seizing their ships and transporting them to primitive planets. As soon as she speaks with Chuckles, she knows he’s not like the others. He has honor, is a being worthy of respect, of caring.

But she can’t let him go. She has to trap him. His dominance thrills her. His deep voice evokes desires she’d never experienced in the past. She’ll risk it all, breaking every rule for one wild encounter with the male she calls Sir.

Choosing Chuckles

Great story and characters!

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

The heroine: Bettina (a.k.a. Bait) – she works with a bunch of females, luring sexual predators in using her sexuality. Once they take the ‘bait’ and answer her distress call. Bettina and her team capture them, take their ships, then leave them stranded on nearby habitable planets. She had been doing this for eight solar cycles to save up enough credits to take care of herself and her father. Her father had worked his whole life in the mines for the humanoid alliance and expected to retire in comfort, but they betrayed him and now Bettina plans on taking care of him.

The Hero: Chuckles – he was a D model cyborg who, along with his brethren, had escaped the control of the Humanoid Alliance. He hated all humans as it was humans who kept him captive and damaged his leg so bad that nothing would fix it and he was in constant pain from the injury. Humans would have decommissioned him for that imperfection and killed him in the most horrible way possible. Now he is on one of the warships which patrolled the edges of cyborg-controlled space to protect their species.

The Story: Chuckles knows from the first call his warship receives that Bettina is the one female that was made just for him. He hates the fact that she is human and that she is sending out a deceitful message to lure them into a trap. His commander also knows Chuckles is heading into a trap but allows him to go since they know that Bettina is his female.

This story was interesting, and I liked both characters quite a bit. Bettina was cute and I loved that she liked to fabricate jewelry in her spare time. It is actually what she wanted to do once she had enough credits for her father and his friend to live on. She was very submissive and Chuckles very dominant. Bettina’s submissiveness stemmed from being the one that had to take care of everyone else and she liked to shut down and have Chuckles make the decisions for her. She called him ‘Sir’ and he called her ‘baby’.

I also liked the fact that Chuckles could always tell when she was lying, and he was usually a few steps ahead of her. She thought she trapped him and captured him, but really, he could have gotten free and contacted his cyborg brethren at any time to come help him out. Though cyborgs can’t lie, they can con others by not telling them certain things, especially if they aren’t asked direct questions.

There were also some great supporting characters including some evil humans and some furry beings (kind of like five-legged monkeys that could speak their own language, which of course Chuckles could also speak. I really enjoyed them, and they added a lot to the story.

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