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Haunting Blackie (2014)

by Laurann Dohner(Favorite Author)

4.1 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.

series

Cyborg Seduction

review 1: So this is book eight in the 'Cyborg Seducation' series. It really isn't a standalone. Not that I have read them in order, originally I think I skipped to book two or three. By book eight, as this is sic-fi all the world building is already done. It would cover a lot of ground to go over it all again. No problem. I have read a few books in the series so I didn't mind jumping straight in.Blackie and Eve meet while both are being detained in testing facilities, Eve helping Blackie escape. They have a brief encounter that stays with Blackie for many years to come. No, no quick sexy times just a 'hey your handsome, wait for me on the escape shuttle.' Eve never makes it to the shuttle. Decades later, Blackie is amazed to run into Eve again. She hasn't aged a day. It comes out ... morepretty quickly she was the result of splicing canine and human DNA.So apparently Eve had some 'link' to Blackie when he was a captive, but that was never really explained or explored. The upshot being that she had identified him as her 'mate'. Yes, really. Cue, Eve is instantaneously in love. Blackie finds out straight away and is more than fine with it. Of course. There was no getting to know you, stage. I normally love that part of romance. It's not enough to just tell me they love each other I want to know why. How do they complement each other?The usual prejudices abound and of course Blackie and Eve have bad guys to face. My big issue was that 'Haunting Blackie' seemed to be written on autopilot by Laurann Dohner. She wrote almost this same story in 'Redeeming Zorus' which I really enjoyed. She used all the same main concepts from that book in 'Haunting Blakie' to much less effect. This was an expensive book when I felt I had read it before.Laurann Dohner is a good author she has proved it time and time again. Her books when good are action packed and hot. I just really think she could use a bit of new inspiration at this point.
review 2: I love my cyborgs, we were introduced to Blackie and Gene in Kissing Steel. They were sent by the council to interrogate Rena and seeing by this time that Steel has fallen for her decided he was unfit and Rena should be killed. But little do we realize that it is more that Blackie had in his past fallen for a human and his angry thinking that she had abandon him, nut decades later we find that Eve had not but had just been left behind. But true love always prevails even if it takes years. Five stars for me on loving this story. I cannot wait for Gene and Danica, their story is going to be great. less

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