Her Cyborg Champion by Susan Hayes

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

She risked everything to escape from Earth – but her new life came with a cost.

Haven colony is Maggie’s new home and her one chance at freedom. Clean water, free air… As far as she’s concerned, it’s paradise. But getting here meant leaving her best friend behind.

It doesn’t take long for her to learn Haven is surrounded by hidden dangers—and the most dangerous of all is a sexy, scarred cyborg named Striker.

Humans took everything from him. His family, his friends, even his voice. Why would he trust one of them with anything?

Striker just wants to live quietly. The wild places beyond the colony are his sanctuary, a place he can go to forget about his past and the ones he failed to protect.

He intended to stay clear of the human colonists. Then, one of them started entering his woods. Maggie isn’t like the others. She’s determined, beautiful, and unaware of the dangers prowling the forest.

He never wanted to be responsible for anyone again, but the flame-haired beauty needs him more than she knows… and he might need her more than he thinks.

Her Cyborg Champion

Standard cyborg romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💚❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔🤓🥰

The heroine: Maggie – since Earth is a dying planet, Maggie and her best friend Jade decided to hack their way into the lottery of women that get to travel to a new world called Haven. It is a planet with plenty of air and atmosphere. On Earth Maggie and Jade were thieves and lived on the lower levels of an indoor world. They couldn’t see the outdoors and were considered the dregs of society. Though when Maggie leaves, Jade is not with her.

The Hero: Striker – he is a cyborg who lives on Haven, but he rarely goes into the colony. He likes to be in the forest where he is alone and can breathe clean air, and run-in wide-open spaces. Though the forest is dangerous, he knows what to watch out for. Before he was freed from the corporations, he was tortured, experimented on and made to fight and kill his friends and batch siblings. He has a lot of guilt and just wants to be left alone.

The Story: When Maggie gets to Haven, she immediately loves it. It takes her no time to get used to the gravity, which is denser than Earths, and she loves the fact that she no longer has to breathe recycled air. She is very adaptable which comes from the way she was brought up, though she is always preparing for things to go bad. So, she gathers caches of survival items and hides them in the forest so if something ever happens, she can go dig them up and have things like food tablets, blankets and extra clothes. Whenever she goes into his forest, Striker keeps an eye on Maggie and though he hates humans, he is interested in her.

The story is pretty standard for a cyborg romance. The cyborgs hate humans because humans treated them like crap after their initial military use ran out. Maggie has no knowledge of how Striker had been treated and in fact she wasn’t treated much better from the world she left behind. They find common ground in the fact that they both just did what they had to in order to survive.

The romance was cute, and the intimate scenes were steamy, but not too steamy. Overall, the book could have had some more action and adventure. I wish it was a bit longer, but it wasn’t bad. I did like the world and the characters and will most likely try another book from this series. Jade’s story is next.

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