Viper by Kelsey Nicole Price

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

When the Global Allegiance terminated all Cyborgs, rumors were rampant that they still existed, either hidden away with wealthy collectors or—even more scandalous—part of the Cyborg Rebellion. 

Oz
I am the girl who infiltrated the cyborg rebellion–you thought it was hard? 
I hacked Viper’s processors and boom I was in. 
Sure, call me the villain, but what would you be willing to do to rescue your best friend? 
For me, the answer was easy–I would do anything. 
I now find myself an unwanted guest of the cyborg rebellion–the female every cyborg eyes with suspicion and the one Viper hates with a passion. 
I can’t blame him. I would hate me too. 
So why do I catch him looking at me with desire in his piercing violet eyes? And why do I like it and wish for more? 
I am supposed to be the badass who guards her heart behind a bulletproof vest. 
But the cyborgs are wearing down my defenses.
I am the girl who infiltrated the cyborg rebellion, but what happens if I let Viper infiltrate my heart? 

Viper
I am the best Technology Model the Global Allegiance ever created.
Give me any code, any program, and I’ll hack it faster than you can blink
So how is it that I find myself getting my processors invaded by a tiny human female with bright pink hair? 
It doesn’t matter that she infiltrated our secret hideout to find her best friend.
Or that she almost died in the process.
What Oz did was unforgivable.
I hate her. Can she blame me?
So why do I find myself unable to make her pay?
And why do I catch myself staring at her, unable to do anything more than shout insults and storm off?
Humans are filthy disgusting creatures, so why do I long to kiss this one?
I am supposed to stay strong. To protect my cyborg brothers and their mates from any threat.
But the female I should despise is wearing down my defenses.
I am the best Technology Model in existence,
But what happens if I let Oz hack into my mechanical heart and invade my processors permanently?

Viper

“I’m coming for you and all your little cyborg friends, too.”

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

The heroine: Oz – she is a tiny hacker with bright pink hair and a dark past. Her best friend is Poe from Dax’s book. She helped Poe find out information on where the headquarters of the cyborg rebellion was located, but since then she hasn’t heard a peep from Poe. Oz has a black-market chip implanted in her brain which makes her a faster and better hacker than she was before. The implant could have killed her, but she figured it was worth it. With the implant, she is able to hack into Viper’s processors to threaten him and control him.

The Hero: Viper (a.k.a. 578 453) – he is a technology model cyborg who has a horrific past thanks to the Global Allegiance and so he has an extreme aversion to being touched, especially by a human and he was a germaphobe despite the fact that his skin resisted germs. One thing Viper really can’t stand is for anyone to hack into his head, since the Global Allegiance used to go into his processors and try to overload them to see how much he could take. It was torture to him and nearly killed him on more than one occasion.

The Story: after breaking into cyborg rebellion headquarters, holding Viper hostage and finally finding out her friend Poe was OK, Oz collapsed. It turns out that the implant was killing her, and she ended up in a coma. Luckily Dax was able to turn off the implant and since she had information on where the HQ was, she had to stay with the rebellion from now on. Though Viper and most of the cyborgs didn’t trust her because of what she did when she broke in.

This one was cute. I have liked all the books in this series so far, but I really liked this one and not only because the cyborg was purple, and the heroine had pink hair so they would obviously go well together. Also, I liked it because he was a technology model, and she was a hacker. I work in the information technology sector, so I have to appreciate that. I did love Oz’s spunk and how she had been hurt in her past, but she was willing to die for the people she loved. Plus the nods to the Wizard of Oz didn’t hurt since that is my all time favorite.

It was a bit of a journey for Viper to go from hating Oz to wanting her to trusting her. I liked this story a lot more than the last book since there was much more of a conflict than the love fest between Poe and Dax from the very beginning of that book. I also liked that Viper had a background of being abused by the Global Allegiance, so he had to overcome much more in this book than Dax in the last book.

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