Everybody feared the man with the metal band over his mouth.Stryker was part of an elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA. He was known as the Creeper, the quiet, the man with half a face. His fate was his own and his freedom hard-earned, having nothing to live for but the hunt and his perfect record. Until he received a distress call that changed his bleak existence.… existence.
“Please, oh god, please. Is anybody out there? This is Norah Lee, a scientist of Earth. I-I don’t know what to do. I think everybody…everyone is dead. Please if you hear this, please help us.
I can hear them outside. They’re coming…
I don’t want to die.”
Warning: mature readers only, explicit sex scenes, horror elements
Book two of Cyborg Shifters, same universe as Stranded in the Stars, every book is a standalone that only subtly builds off of the others.
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Damnit! I had to read this during a bad rainstorm…
Really… What are the odds that I would happen to read this during a series of tropical storms bombarding the SoCal coastline during our version of winter? (At least we got some snow for our high desert aquifers.) Yet that’s where this book took me – to a planet with large oceans that was quickly becoming one global ocean during a mass-extinction flooding in an attempt to rid itself of pesky humans.
Norah Lee, a water chemist, finds herself trapped on this increasingly flooding planet when something BAD happens, and she finds herself trapped in her lab with the dead corpse of her colleague floating in the rising water level while the rest of her team is outside… apparently massacred by something unknown. She manages to send a distress signal out, but who knows who will receive it and when?
Apparently, Stryker, a cybernetic-shifting serpent, does, but isn’t quite sure if it is a real distress call or an intriguing lure into a trap laid out by pirates. Nevertheless, he follows his heart and intuition, becoming a one-cyborg rescue team, but instead of rescuing the heroine in distress, he misses his own window for rescue, so now what happens?
This was an extremely compelling book, like reading The Stand while battling a flu bug. It’s overwhelmingly wet and yucky and cold and damp and I can’t wait until I can be dry and warm! I don’t know how often I had to grab a blanket just to feel safe and dry.
The characters are very sympathetic. You can’t help but to like them. Definitely decent character development with just enough angst and none of the stupid “Does s/he love me?” crap I can’t stand. In other words, it’s realistic. And just when you think they manage to grapple their way above sea level, something else happens, and everyone needs to readjust their bearings. My only complaint is that I had to set the book down just to grab a breath. (Like that’s a huge issue…)
The science behind the story is sound while introducing something I had never contemplated about during my microbiology days. It’s wonderful when someone comes up with something I haven’t read or thought about.
I highly recommend buying this book (as well as the entire series). Screw KU. Just buy it. You’ll be re-reading it like I am.
*WARNING* contains explicit adult sexual situations
Stryker is a cyborg who is genetically engineered to be half human, half animal. Stryker goes to other planets for EPED to collect animals, plants, bugs, basically whatever EPED wants to study.
Norah is a scientist. Norah has a love for water, so when she was asked to go to Axone to see if it would be habitable, Norah went. Norah got more that data from that planet.
I felt this was original, but I think it would be wrong of me to tell you what Stryker’s animal is. I enjoyed this story even though it make me feel a little creepy.
I bought the set 1-4 as the title was very interesting to me as I love shifter books, but I also love science fiction and cyborg books. Each book could be read as a stand alone book as they were all unique in their own way and a complete story. I loved all the characters. These were not your usual shifters or your usual circumstances which involve so many shifter romances today. They were unique. The main shifters were a spider, a snake, a shark, and a dog, but there was also a salt water crocodile included in one of the stories. Each of the leading ladies were as unique as the leading men. I loved ALL 4 of the stories which is unusual for me with a boxed set. There is usually a story or two I don’t care for, but I loved ALL of these stories. I would highly recommend this set of books and am looking forward to reading the next book.
This second book is about the snake shifter. He is a monster hunter and considers himself a monster. Norah Lee is a stranded scientist on a planet that is trying to drown her and there are shriekers coming to kill her. Stryker hears her distress call and her voice captivates him and he sets himself a mission to save her. This is their story. If I could give this book more stars I would.
The second book in the Cyborg Shifters series a well written story that kept me turning pages. I should not have started this when I went to bed. Stryker is part of an elite group of Cyborgs genetically enhanced with inhuman DNA he gets a call for help from Norah Lee, a scientist of Earth who is listening as her team mates die from something attacking them, on the planet they are testing. This story has suspense, drama, danger, monsters, twists, turns, and romance. I read this copy through KU and am voluntarily reviewing.
The man behind the mask
I just can’t stop reading this series! I love romances where the most unlikely of person finds their HEA, and the author absolutely excels at that. Yet again the author brings us characters to fall in love with and to rally behind as they struggle to survive and thrive. The danger and excitement in this book brings an intensity that kept me reading until the early hours of the morning. I enjoyed every minute of this story and I can’t wait to read the next book and see which cyborg finds their one next.
I liked this one not quite as much as the first book in the series but it was still a solid read.
Nora is a scientist on a research trip on a distant planet but on the eve the team are due to pull out something hits the facility bringing a massive storm in its wake and there’s something shrieking out in the darkness that has picked off all of her colleagues.
Now Nora is alone and stranded the only one left on a planet that had become her prison.
Stryker is a monster Hunter and returning from his most recent mission he picks up Noras distress call.
Feeling instantly connected to the unknown woman’s voice Stryker acts out of character and changes his course to try and rescue the woman whose very voice call to him.
So this was a good read that I did enjoy, I loved the fact that Stryker is a cyborg and shifter and also thought it so cool that his base form is that of a snake.
I loved his unique anatomy and animalistic nature but I did at times struggle to feel the connection.
I’m not actually sure why as it was all there including some very hot sex scenes.
I think maybe the permanent face mask didn’t help and that part I wasn’t a fan of.
I didn’t like that Stryker couldn’t trust himself around Nora and maybe that affected the bond somewhat for me.
I also didn’t like how hard he was on himself when he had so much to offer.
This was dual POV which is my favourite and it was action-packed throughout, The pace here was fast and this moved along fairly swiftly.
Overall this was a decent read and I will read the next in the series.
Reviewed By Beckie Bookworm
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