Her Cyborg by Nellie C. Lind

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

CAN’T FIND MR. RIGHT? WHY NOT CREATE HIM? MedAct is the company that can make all your dreams come true! Just give them a call and let them create the perfect man for you. But remember, you can never give him up. It will kill him, literally. 

Loneliness and failed relationships made Phoebe want a cyborg of her own. With him, she would never be heartbroken again, but getting a cyborg is not easy. So when she turned to the medical and scientific company MedAct, she never expected to become one of the few people who passed their tests to be able to apply for one. 

Now, months later, his creation is complete, and they are about to come face to face for the very first time. The day she has waited for has finally arrived, and it is about to change everything.

Her Cyborg

It’s always about free will!

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

The heroine: Phoebe – relationships had never worked out for her so she turned to a company called MedAct to purchase her own cyborg. She had helped design the perfect man for her from his features to his personality. In order to qualify for a cyborg, she had to be single, thirty years old, with a well-paying job and a home of her own. Phoebe also had to have extensive psychological testing. Once she gets her cyborg, she has to take a month off work to teach him everything (aside from his programming) and integrate him into her life. The cyborg is bonded to his owner, and you can never abandon or return him or he will die.

The Hero: Shade – he woke up knowing only that he belonged to the woman in front of him and that he had a primal need for her. He couldn’t speak or understand yet, so he wanted to do what came naturally. The woman directed him out of the room they were in and down the hall to her apartment, and he began to understand some of her words.

The Story: Shade and Phoebe spent the first few days together getting to know each other on an intimate level. Like a honeymoon, so to speak. Then they moved into phase two where he had to learn how to interact with other people and cyborgs and learn that not everything is a threat to his bound one.

I’m not sure I liked this one all that much since the whole learning process made me feel like Phoebe was raising a child more than teaching a cyborg. It seems to me that the company that makes the cyborgs could teach them this stuff, but I suppose it makes sense that they have to see their bound one first and the most those first few days. I just didn’t really want to read about the whole process. Though I have to admit the story got much better when they started interacting with others.

There is a side storyline about the fighters, a group of cyborgs whose bound ones have died and when they didn’t die, they decided to live without being bound to another. They think being bound is like being owned and that being a fighter is being free. They live on the outskirts of society and sometimes come into the city to steal supplies and create havoc. I liked this storyline and may just continue on with this series.

One funny thing in this story is that MedAct only makes male cyborgs not female. Which is probably the opposite of what would happen in real life. Lord knows rich men would probably line up to get a female cyborg that didn’t age, made to their exact specifications, that they could have sex with. Though they would probably get them made to follow orders and without any intelligence.

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