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B785 (2013)

by Eve Langlais(Favorite Author)

4 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

self published

series

Cyborgs: More Than Machines

review 1: Like the others, I rather enjoyed this one.Bonnie was different because she knew the entire time she was cyborg, but she also still had her entire human personality. (Hence the problems) So there was none of that 'you are a cyborg' chatter/disbelief.Einstein was an adorable virgin. I really did love him. Though certain aspects of this book made certain things that happened in the last book false. (When he examined Fiona in the last book, he took a male interest in her naked form. A male interest Solus nearly killed him for, but then in this book it was hounded at us that he had never been interested in the female form or a sexbot EVER.)At times Bonnie seemed a little too human and it was annoying, but all in all not TOO annoying.Also I was confused by the time passage from... more when Bonnie was human to becoming cyborg. The previous books made it seem that these books were far into the future (space travel, cyborg tech etc)... But Bonnie was a huge fan of Star Wars and had no clue about space travel. I know it told us exactly how long she had been 'asleep' as it were, but I didn't pay attention to that and just in general it really threw off my perception of the whole 'universe' as it were.But I gladly look forward to the next book.
review 2: This book is actually as well written as the others in this interesting series, but I felt compelled to lower its star rating because of what I feel is a major character flaw.The heroine, Bonnie, is a sassy, bold and intelligent woman, yet she freely admits that her life before the car accident that turned her and her sister into cyborgs was filled with partying and meaningless sex. Never is it said what personal pain prompted her self-destruction, and it seems unlikely that, considering Bonnie relates that unlike other cyborgs her memory of every minute of her life before and after her change is intact, those psychological issues would simply dissolve. I was similarly VERY offended by a line in this novel, one in which Bonnie is reflecting on all the rape and terror she and her sister endured. She contemplates how much harder it was on Chloe who was always shy and less experienced than it was for Bonnie who could better handle "the emotional and physical" effects of repeated rape. Excuse me? There was no cyborg explanation for that statement, so I'm gathering that somehow Bonnie is saying her previous promiscuous past prepared for rape and that's total bullshit. Particularly factoring in Bonnie's memory, it would stand to reason that she would have a host of issues that needed to be worked through, at least in some passing way of having a "program" that could help her before diving into a sexual relationship.Are Bonnie and Einstein not believable as a couple? No. They are individually wonderful and a great match, but I could never successfully suspend my disbelief at the incongruity between Bonnie's past and her current behavior. less

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