Peyton 313 by Donna McDonald
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Worst epic fail of her scientific career? Falling for a cyborg she helped create.
Peyton 313
Kyra Winters never meant for her cyber science discoveries to be used for evil, but that’s exactly what happened. Now returning Peyton 313’s humanity is the last chance she’ll ever have to atone. She can’t get back the lost decade, but she can change the present by restoring the cyborg who was once Marine Captain Peyton Elliot.
Certainly her grand plan for rectifying her mistakes didn’t include madly kissing the confused, passionate Marine when he begged her to. The same scientific mind that constructed the cyborg creator code now warned her not to let Peyton’s tempting offers of heaven cloud her rational decision making. Yet it’s difficult to resist the cyborg she’s restoring when he’s also the most intriguing man she’s ever known.
Cyborg super-soldier gets his humanity restored!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😟🤭😤😘
The heroine: Dr. Kyra Winters – She was one of the scientists whose work in cybernetic engineering helped to create the first cyborgs. They were military men who volunteered to be enhanced with cybernetics in order to create super-soldiers who could help win the last world war. However, since the end of the war ten years ago, the shady Norton Industries and the unscrupulous world government (UCN) have betrayed those same soldiers by claiming they were no longer human and selling them as cyber husbands to the wealthy. Kyra regrets her part in all that and seeks to do something to help those that have fallen victim.
The Hero: Peyton 313 (a.k.a. Marine Captain Payton Elliot) – He has had 10 wives since he was turned into a cyber husband. All but one of them have returned him for his rebellious nature. He did like wife #6, who just wanted him as a companion, though she fell in love with a fully human male and returned Peyton. Peyton’s rebellions are due to the fact that he has been recovering memories from his former life and working on his internal processes to be able to keep those memories. He had been creating neural pathways between his organic brain and his cybernetics.
The Story: Kyra was working to release Peyton from his cybernetic chains by destroying his main processor and some of the upgrade chips he was given, including torment chips which were basically chips that caused him pain if he didn’t follow orders given to him by his owner or the scientists at Norton Industries.
“There is no universe in which it is fair that such a strong, good man’s free will should be thwarted by a few simple spoken words in his ear. Further apologies for my part in this would only be redundant. However, I remain incredibly ashamed of myself for not acting sooner to rescue all cyborgs from this unnatural fate.”
What was kind of cool about this book was the fact that having Peyton’s memories and emotions restored and then restarting the connections to his data banks which held everything that happened to him since the war ended and his humanity was basically turned off was so similar to what Neo went through in the Matrix and the dilemma it causes. Such as would it be better to be left alone, in a place where you didn’t have emotions and didn’t really know what was going on and the fact that you had no choices, or would you rather see the matrix for what it is and know that your world really sucks. Peyton is now seeing the Matrix and knows that instead of honoring him for his extensive military service, his government made him a robot and a slave that didn’t even realize what was going on. It’s a heck of a wake-up call to know how badly he had been betrayed.
What I didn’t like about this book was the fact that Kyra was in her 50’s. I know it was set in the future and lifespans are much longer than they are today. They said something like 150, but the way she described herself, it seemed that a 52-year-old in the future still looks like a 52-year-old does today. I am a few years older than that and I don’t want to read about a heroine that is my age. My romance fantasies are best when the heroine is 25-35 years old. That was when I was at my best, so it is what I like to imagine for my heroines.
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