Storm Surge by Naomi Lucas
SUMMARY
Everybody feared the man with the metal band over his mouth.
Stryker was part of an elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. He was known as the Creeper, the quiet, the man with half a face. His fate was his own and his freedom hard-earned, having nothing to live for but the hunt and his perfect record. Until he received a distress call that changed his bleak existence.
“Please, oh god, please. Is anybody out there? This is Norah Lee, a scientist of Earth. I-I don’t know what to do. I think everybody...everyone is dead. Please if you hear this, please help us.
I can hear them outside. They’re coming…
I don’t want to die.”
MY REVIEW
If I could give an alternative title in this Cyborg Shifters series, it would have beeen Creepy Love.
We meet another weird half cyborg-half shifter in this second book.
Stryker is part of the elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. And he is one of the friends of Dommik (the spider cyborg) that we met in book 1.
Stryker has a mask that covers half his face and inside he hides poisonous saliva and a split tongue. He occasionally hisses and crawls. Can you guess what his animal part is?
I think this book was primarily a sci-fi thriller and secondarily a sci-fi romance.
For the most part cyborg Stryker and Norah ( the scientist who tries to rescue) run and hide in a jungle in an alien planet chased by unknown predators/monsters who love to scream and to make people disappear inside the deep muddy water, while the sky never stops raining.
It is a very stressful situation that somehow helps Norah to accept Stryker and to fall in love with him.
Stryker has all his behavioural characteristics of his animal part. He is sly, determined and he hates losing. He wants to hold Norah tight and to never let her go until he chokes her, because he has decided that she belongs to him.
Next book is about a shark shifter and I believe I am hooked to this series , so I will start it straightaway :)
