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Mission Menage (2011)

by Cynthia Sax(Favorite Author)

2.85 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ellora's Cave

series

Operation Erotic

review 1: I had high hopes for this book when I snagged it for free on amazon. Cyborg love machine - check. Kickass heroine - check. Arrogant alpha male - check. Menage in the title - check. And then I started it and my hopes were expertly dashed.I felt like the author chopped off huge chunks of this book and dropped the reader right into the middle. It dove right into a sex scene between Raylee (kickass heroine) and Sexy (the cyborg), and from there to a delivery (she's a delivery girl) where we're introduced to the bad guys in a way that suggests we should already know who they are, when we don't. Raylee picks up a guest in the form of human Vegas, who created Sexy as his android twin. Vegas believes Raylee is his "mate" and that she is his "reward", but we don't know why h... moree feels that way or what exactly he did to earn her.Here's where it gets weird for me...so stop reading now if you don't want to be spoiled.I wouldn't ever - EVER - create a clone of myself and then have sex with myself. I don't care if it's an android, if I'm looking into my own face I'm checking out. So the Sexy's-tongue-to-Vegas'-naughty-place is a big WHOA for me. Then later, the book wraps up with a menage scene, but not as I'd hoped or expected, with Raylee deliciously skewered between the man and his robot twin (which I would have liked if there was no m/m touching). Instead, Vegas is skewered - literally - by Sexy, while Vegas is having his way with Raylee. Um...hello? Sorry, that's just not my cuppa. If this scene had happened early in the book, I wouldn't have finished it. It smacked of weird twin-cest for me, even though my brain knows that he's an android, I just couldn't get over it. To be clear, I have no problem with m/m love scenes, but I do have issues with this scenario with the human and his android twin getting it on.There were too many loose ends for me to really enjoy this story. With sci-fi, the reader can be expected to suspend belief about some things, but the lack of background information, thorough explanations of important things, and a rush to love (within two days!!) made the book less enjoyable than I'd hoped. Maybe others can overlook the twin-touching-m/m-menage, but it ruined an already borderline book for me.
review 2: As you can see by the blurb, the menage is between two humans and an android. Is that a taboo? Maybe. And the android is a clone of the male human. Is that a taboo? I wouldn't necessarily categorize it as a taboo, but rather a bit egotistic since the male in the story has the android bugger him. It's just bad form, not a taboo in my opinion.So mostly this story made me laugh because of all the bad reviews I read before reading it. Honestly I read it because I'm trying to fulfill a reading challenge of books I got for free last year and this one was short. Story wasn't stellar but not the worst I've ever read. World building wasn't bad. So all in all I'll give it a 2 to 2-1/2 star rating. less

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