Wings and Teeth by Naomi Lucas

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Once a wartime hero, Keir was famous for a cyborg, his face plastered on military banners on every side of the galaxy.

But he wasn’t a hero, not really.

He was a hunter, Nightheart’s free agent for the most classified missions. No one knew Keir worked for the EPED. He was beholden to no one. Stalking the most dangerous monsters across the universe.

So, when he encounters a beautiful, intriguing woman in the alien wilds on his latest assignment, he’s immediately taken aback. She’s smart, capable, and completely unafraid of her surroundings, no matter how brutal. But she’s scared of him.

She has a past, one she refuses to share, and it’s connected to everything he’s been searching for.

Luckily, there’s no one more determined than him… Now that he has his mate to capture.

Wings and Teeth

The best story so far in this series!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🩵🖤❤️💜💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😍🥰😁😋

The heroine: Echo – she lives in a compound on Volun which is Utha’s moon. She is the primary hunter and tech support for the compound and her jobs are never done. Someone always needs something from her. Even when she is out on an important and dangerous hunt not long before the burnout where she needed to restock their dwindling supplies of meat now or she would have to wait weeks to be able to hunt again.

The Hero: Keir – he is a hawk cyborg shifter working for Nightheart, who owns the EPED (Earthian Planetary Exploration Division). He is one of Nightheart’s best agents and he specializes in covert missions. He is checking out Volun because Nightheart thinks it might hold the secrets to where the Cyborgs, especially the shifter class were born. After they were created and before being sent off in the Galactic war which ended sixty years ago, the cyborgs were wiped of all memories of their creation so it couldn’t be used against them. Though Volun is home to an old military base that was used during the war.

The Story: While Echo is out hunting, she sees a spaceship flying overhead and is worried that it may be an offworlder, since she does not know of anyone that has a ship that still runs. After she gets her prey and is on her way home, she gets a com that there is an emergency, and she should return to the compound at once. She worries because of what she went through in the past after she had committed murder and was locked up and nearly tortured. She knew only two types of people ever trespassed on Volun, criminals and cyborgs.

I have to say, I liked all the secrets in this book, there were secrets in the last book, but in this one Echo was not just keeping her past a secret, but she seemed to know a lot about what went on at the former space base where the compound was located, and she was wary of the fact that Keir might be looking for his past like the cyborg Ares who came before was. Something went wrong during that time, and they had some sort of plan to make sure the same didn’t happen again.

I also loved the fact that Keir went through the Galaxy war in nearly the same way as Captain America went through the second world war. He was the face of the war, the “Hero” that the masses were shown as propaganda for the war. Keir felt guilty for not being in the thick of things with his brethren and now all he wanted was a nice place where he could be alone, and his hawk could be free.

I really enjoyed every book in this series though this one, I think was the best of them all. I even found myself crying at one point and I was surprised by the plot more than once. I like Naomi Lucas’s writing and the fact that she gives us non-traditional Heroes. In this series each Hero is a cyborg shifter with a different kind of animal. I also really enjoyed Naomi’s Naga Brides series, though those Hero’s were even more non-traditional, the stories were so great. I definitely plan to read more of her series, including the Stranded in the Stars cyborg series which takes place in the same world/galaxy as this series. However, I really wish this series would have one more book. I want Nightheart’s story.

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