Bonded to the Cyborg Bodyguard by Corin Cain
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
700lbs of protective, possessive Cyborg with one need. Keep me safe – whether I like it or not.
Bonded to the Cyborg Bodyguard
Alana: I never let my guard down. You have to be on all the time if you want to make it to the top. I go to trillion-dollar meetings with two nine-foot-tall Sentinels at my back. Now I’ve learned there’s a hack that makes my robotic guards vulnerable. The boss assigns me a new bodyguard. One that’s less machine and more… beast.
I’ve got rules. Don’t trust anyone. Especially not men.
This… this isn’t any man. He’s a 6’8, 700-pound Alien-Cyborg, and he’s got one goal – keep me safe. He’s a little too protective. A little too possessive. And when he looks at me with raw hunger in his eyes, I’m scared he’s going to snap and break through whatever programming tells him I’m off-limits. He just better be good at following orders…
Because if he doesn’t do exactly as I say, I’m going to shut him down and send him back to the factory he came from.
Power exchange!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️💜
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍🌎
Character development: 😚😔🤓😋🥰
The heroine: Alana – she is head of acquisitions for RD Law at the headquarters, on a personal space station. The firm is a multi-trillion-credit firm, and Alana is always in control and always on. She is known as a shark and can never show any sign of weakness, or it will be taken advantage of in an instant. Whenever she goes anywhere, she is protected by two nine-feet-tall Sentinel robots. She has to stay on top until she can retire. For now, she uses her money for charity in secret and if she gets into the inner circle at the company where she gets a percentage instead of just a salary, she will be able to do so much more.
The Hero: Mark – he is an Aurelian cyborg, a Mark 4, one of the first off the production line. The Mark 3’s were too individualistic so the Mark 4’s identity was subdued to keep them in line. Alana’s DNA has been coded into him and she has now been imprinted on him. He will protect her no matter what.
The Story: Alana finds out that the Sentinels which protect her and make her look and feel strong are susceptible to being hacked and are no longer safe as her guards. Her big boss has given Mark 4 to her as a replacement. She had just finished securing an iron clad deal to sell some worthless mines, but after the deal was done, their sensors found Orbs in the mines, so now her boss put her in charge of getting the mines back. Since she is the only one who can reverse the deal, her safety is at risk, especially if it is found out why.
I liked Alana, she was definitely tough as nails, but it is mostly a front to get what she wants out of life. She grew up knowing hunger and she wants into the inner circle of her company where she can make bank and make sure she is comfortable if the universe is plunged into war and uncertainty. She also wants to do as much as she can for charity, which is making sure kids don’t go hungry like she once did.
There were a few small things I didn’t like about this book. Like the fact that Mark calls Alana the b word when they are being intimate. Though I do like the fact that he is in control when they are in the bedroom, but she is in control when they are working, since she is technically his boss. I like the fact that he respects her enough to follow her orders when necessary.
I have read quite a few of these Aurelian Empire books by Corin Cain, and I really like this world. Though there are some things that remain a secret and I am not quite sure where this book falls in the timeline of her other series. I do know that the Orbs they use in their armor, blades, guns and as power for their ships are somehow sentient or something. I think I one of the future books we will find out more about the Orbs.
“Our Orb-Armor glitters in a strange, almost malevolent way, as if it rues being used for defensive purposes and not for blood. These Orbs hunger for war. They ache for the coming storm, I feel it, and our armor is like wearing an emptiness deeper than night.”
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