January 2021 - Belated wishes! - C.M. Stunich and Allison's Adventures ;)

 

I believe I still haven't introduced C.M. Stunich to you.

Let me -these last few days of January- present one of her fairy-tales series for grown ups :

Ashes and Metal (Cyborg Shifters, #5) by Naomi Lucas

Ashes and Metal by Naomi Lucas
SUMMARY

No one messed with Gunner. No one.

He was the Jackal, living chaos, the infamous Cyborg banned from civilized society. He was also the only Monster Hunter for the EPED who took the hard jobs, the under-the-table work. Jobs that often left a trail of blood and bones in their wake. When a pirate commandeers his ship, Gunner takes it upon himself to exact a revenge that will ignite a wildfire of rage, death, and torment upon those who made the mistake of taking what was rightfully his.

Elodie has spent most of her life pretending to be a boy to remain alongside her father in space. He’s the only family she has left. When the ship they worked on is attacked, she’s taken prisoner. Every day, she feared that her secret would be discovered—that she’s a woman alone amongst men. When a strange man is dragged into the cell next to hers, she realizes she was living on borrowed time.

He stared at her as if he knew her secret…

MY REVIEW

Gunner is half cyborg- half jackal shifter. He happily works for Earthian Planetary Exploration Division collecting monsters from several planets of the universe. He also has a great ship and a few great female sexbots who satisfy his needs and help him operate his ship.
When Gunner is attacked by pirates, his ship is stolen by them and he ends up as a prisoner of them; he can think only of revenge and how he can get his property back. Because nobody NOBODY is allowed to touch what belongs to Gunner.

At the next cell, a young man is also held prisoner. He is lonely and he never talks to anybody. Something is strange about him. He looks like a man, he behaves like a man, but Gunner's inner jackal insists that he is a woman. Unfortunately he is so dirty and Gunner can not have a good snif of him/her in order to decide what he/she is.

Space is not a safe place for women. Thus, Elodie has spent most of her life pretending that she is a man. Her father convinced her that this was the best thing if she wanted to stay and work with him in space.
Now her father and her are prisoners of the pirates. And there is this strange, huge man at the next cell with the gun tattoos on his face that keeps talking to her and never leaves her alone. Obviously everybody have been sure that Elodie is a guy...then why Gunner treat her like a girl sometimes?

This is my favourite book of the series so far! I think it is the longest and the most complete story. And I am sure it can be read as a standalone if you want to try the series. It has everything: space, pirates, cyborgs, shifters, sexy times, bloody times, humour, fake ids (by the way I love stories when a person pretends to be a different gender) and of course space battles!

Mutt (Cyborg Shifters #4) by Naomi Lucas

Mutt  by Naomi Lucas
SUMMARY

BEWARE OF DOG

Clara was confused when she encountered the sign outside the Cyborg breeding facility. She wanted a child and nothing would stand in her way. But she didn’t heed the sign’s warning—she had more important things on her mind—and once she understood, it was too late. Her heart was already on the line.

Reid was the ultimate protector, the perfect bodyguard, his loyalty embedded in his DNA. The animal his creators chose for him was a favorite, a downright blessing, and an ongoing nightmare. He found the perfect reprieve after the Great Galactic War: Division Head of the last Cyborg breeding facility on Earth. The empty halls offered more than silence—they offered him sanctuary.

Territory.

When a woman walked through his door, begged to join the program, and wouldn’t take no for an answer, her delicate features and desperation awakened a behavior that had long lain dormant—his need to claim.

MY REVIEW

This book is slightly different to the other books of the series so far. The action does not happen on a spaceship or on an alien planet. The story takes place on Earth which apparently is not a friendly place anymore - especially if you are a lonely woman who tries to get pregnant with any way possible and she is chased by her psycho ex. Reid is a cyborg and a shifter (maybe the last cyborg on earth as sometimes he jokes). He is also the Head of the last Cyborg breeding facility on Earth. A facility which it has only one doctor, himself. And 0% success in breeding. When Clara appears asking to be bread with Cyborg DNA, Reid realises that she mainly wants a place to hide. So he does what he knows best. He tries to throw her out and discourages her from coming back. Reid has survived alone for so many decades and although his natural instincts urge him to form a pack, he continuously denies his true nature. But apparently he will like Clara and he will want to protect her and when she finally convinces him to experiment with her, he will only wish to give her his own DNA. This is a very interesting story and moreover lots of the characters from the previous books will appear. It is time for a few cyborg mates to have babies :) I think the fourth story of the Cyborg-shifter universe has made the series stronger and I can easily predict many many books to come.

Shark Bite (Cyborg Shifters #3) by Naomi Lucas

Shark Bite by Naomi Lucas

SUMMARY

Netto was a Cyborg, a protector, and a contracted mercenary. His specialty was the water: shallows, salt water, and open oceans across the universe. He was also a freak forged from the DNA of a bull shark—blue-grey skin, a body built with power, and a double-set of razor-sharp teeth. His nomadic lifestyle came to a halt when his old employer, the Earthian Planetary Exploration Division, offered him his old job back.

Rylie was born and raised on the planet Kepler, on an agri-lot that farmed jewels from the sea. But something was happening to her family’s lots and people were disappearing.

When a giant Cyborg showed up at her settlement and struck a deal with her father, she was forced to follow the stranger out onto the water, into the dangers of the alien deep, and far beyond the sight of land.

She feared the Cyborg.
She feared his teeth.
But she feared the monsters in the water more.

MY REVIEW

Netto is a cyborg and half shark and he is perfect in giving solutions in aquatic environment even in strange planet in deep space. During one of his missions at planet Kepler, he will meet Rylie. Rylie was born and raised at Kepler. She comes from a family of farmers who farm jewels from the sea.

Unfortunately recently lots of farmers have gone missing, their ships are being destroyed and weird huge monsters have been roaming the seas. Netto had been there when the safe enviroment for the farmers had been created many many years ago and the boarders between the peaceful sea and the unknown sea had been set. Combined with the fact that Netto can transform into a shark and swim deeply into the sea without any problems, he is basically the most suitable candidate to discover what is the problem with the sea of this planet.

Although cyborgs are treated like heroes in the farming community and their help is welcome, Rylie is not comfortable with Netto in the beginning. Maybe because she prefers being alone and maybe because he is huge with sharp teeth and maybe because he does not talk much and he looks at her like he wants to eat her. And maybe he wants to eat for real.

I love stories with cyborgs and shifters and this series is awesome, but honestly I was not feeling comfortable when I was reading this story. I am not sure that I like shark shifters -especially when they half shift when they have sex hahaha. My god, those teeth....
Moreover I was very concerned about his size and the damage he could create to poor virgin Rylie. Not a happy thought...

Other than that, it was a very imaginative story and it is also the beginning of the story for Zeph, the half cyborg/half salt water crocodile who is also Netto’s friend and Janet, the slut/man-eater/selfish bitch who is also Rylie's sister.