Key To His Heart by Athena Storm

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

His people crashed onto my world. And he crashed into my heart.

The alien calls himself Tavion. Sure, he may be part machine.

But down there…he’s all man, if you know what I mean.

His ship crashed from the future. But he’s stolen my heart for eternity.

He and his people need to go home and because he came from the future he can’t take me with him. But the only way they can do return is if I help them find the artifacts they lost when they crashed onto our world. It’s a dangerous adventure. And if we succeed…

It’ll mean he’ll be gone forever.

Can our love rewrite the celestial script?

Or are we fated to flicker away like a dying star?

Key To His Heart

Pretty good cyborg adventure romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙🩷💚
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☹️😮😋😀

The heroine: Skylar – she and about 30 other human women from Earth were in a spaceship headed for a newly colonized planet called New Verdant. Though a gamma ray hit them and they crashed on an uninhabited planet. They named the planet New Mundas and created a small settlement and had been living there peacefully for a few years when another ship crashes elsewhere on the planet and Skylar, as the leader of her colony, decides to go investigate if the aliens are friendly.

The Hero: Tavion – he and his crew aboard the Scammander are cyborgs. They were Mundians that volunteered to have cybernetic parts and nanites implanted in order to be warriors in the New Century War against their enemies, The Beragaon. They have just defeated their attackers when they suddenly were dropped out of superliminal speed and all their systems started failing. They crash landed on a planet that according to their sensors should be their home planet, but looked more like an uninhabited planet.

The Story: When Tavion and Skyler meet, they are happy to see that they both speak in Galactic Standard, and can easily understand each other, though after talking, they figure out that Tavion and his crew had somehow gone back in time when they were traveling and have landed on their home planet of Mundas, but in the year 2629, not the year 2825 which they left. The only sapient life on the planet is the colony of Terran women that Skylar leads.

This story was decent, though too short. I wish it were longer and some of the parts were more fleshed out and some of the tech was explained a bit better. I love the fact that they cyborg could do so much with his nanites and technology. He was kind of a mix between a standard cyborg and the liquid metal cyborg from Terminator 2, in that his nanites could change his metal parts into different things like a fishing rod, a knife and a propeller. It many cyborg books, there just isn’t enough instances where the cyborg actually uses his abilities other than strength and a computer like mind.

Though the length of this book did make it feel a bit too much like insta-love, I did really like the fact that their adventure did take place over plenty of time, probably a few weeks at least. The end wasn’t really an end though and it really disappointed me. I thought the main plot line in the story should have finished up a lot better and the end was just an intro into the next story without concluding the first at all. It was like a cliffhanger on a standalone, which was really weird.

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