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!
