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drez80's review
4.0
3.5 stars I thought Mira was a little ridiculous and whiny, and she always seemed to be begging. Just a little too pathetic to me.
poppymonster's review against another edition
2.0
Timeline was off
Mira accepted her abduction really quickly and expected the cyborg who’d clearly taken her as essentially a slave to care for her as an equal partner. I’d like to think most women in their 30s are aware enough to realize that wouldn’t happen.
Also, Flint was a little shit so often and basically never groveled.
Mira accepted her abduction really quickly and expected the cyborg who’d clearly taken her as essentially a slave to care for her as an equal partner. I’d like to think most women in their 30s are aware enough to realize that wouldn’t happen.
Also, Flint was a little shit so often and basically never groveled.
mamabears_fabulous_book_finds's review
4.0
Cute. Wasn't sure I'd like this, but it was fun for being such a short book.
birdloveranne's review against another edition
4.0
I really liked this book...for about 3/4 of it, despite some bad editing. The ending kind of fizzled and dragged, and the girl started acting like an idiot. I give it 3.5, maybe 4 stars.
divapitbull's review
2.0
Burning up Flint was my first foray into "Cyborg Erotica" and my general impression thus far is...meh. I just didn't care much for the characters, and the heroine in particular I wanted to slap on numerous occasions.
Mira travels the galaxy as part of her job and is kidnapped off her space ship by Flint the Cyborg. Flint wants to "own a woman" and his first order of business is to have sex with Mira. Technically one can call it rape, although truth be told Mira succumbs rather quickly and goes from "you can't have sex with me!...to "OK I can't stop you but please don't hurt me"...to "OMG whatever you do DO NOT STOP"...in a matter of minutes. That actually is not what drives my crazy, I don't begrudge the girl her multiple orgasms. What makes me batty is that she immediately falls in insta-love with Flinty-boy and proceeds to tell him that they're a couple now so he'll be having all his sex with her and no more space hookers for him. Then she finds out that on Garden, the Cyborg planet, humans are possessions. This should not come as a complete shock being as how on Earth Cyborgs were possessions until the government decided to completely eradicate them.
Mira then proceeds to have the mother of all hissy fits because if she belongs to Flint, then Flint has to belong to her and she can't be just a possession or he will never love her the way she loves him; and he was kind of cagey on the whole monogamy issue. The socio-political aspect of being taken to a planet where she has absolutely no legal rights...seems to go right over her head. A similar scenario occurs later in the book where she basically demands Flint break the law on his planet and never even thinks to ask "Hey, what exactly could happen to you for breaking the law"? Or perhaps in her agitated emotional state she thinks Cyborg laws are really more like suggestions.
Flint for his part is OK, but he doesn't have much personality. He's rather stoic and uncommunicative; but in his defense he really doesn't understand why he should be more forthcoming. He seems to be genuinely befuddled by Mira's emotions. He doesn't mean to hurt her, and really he has the best of intentions. Between his laconic interpersonal style and Mira's tendency to make assumptions instead of asking rational questions they just don't communicate well.
Flint also chuckles ALLOT. He doesn't laugh, guffaw, snort, or snicker. It was sort of weirdly creepy until I realized that everyone chucked allot. Not that that necessarily made it any better.
I also noticed there were some editorial mistakes. I'm not usually at all bothered by that sort of thing, I just thought it was weird to see it in a popular mass marketed work. Not blatant editing errors but weird sentence structure, like the author changed directions in mid-sentence and it never got cleaned up.
A couple of quick examples would be: "She stared up into his face with, fighting the urge to shut her eyes..." and "Hot tears filled gathered and her shoulders slumped". Just odd.
In summary, I'm on the fence. I do want to read Iron and Zorus's stories, but for the length and quality I think the "books" are somewhat over-priced.
Mira travels the galaxy as part of her job and is kidnapped off her space ship by Flint the Cyborg. Flint wants to "own a woman" and his first order of business is to have sex with Mira. Technically one can call it rape, although truth be told Mira succumbs rather quickly and goes from "you can't have sex with me!...to "OK I can't stop you but please don't hurt me"...to "OMG whatever you do DO NOT STOP"...in a matter of minutes. That actually is not what drives my crazy, I don't begrudge the girl her multiple orgasms. What makes me batty is that she immediately falls in insta-love with Flinty-boy and proceeds to tell him that they're a couple now so he'll be having all his sex with her and no more space hookers for him. Then she finds out that on Garden, the Cyborg planet, humans are possessions. This should not come as a complete shock being as how on Earth Cyborgs were possessions until the government decided to completely eradicate them.
Mira then proceeds to have the mother of all hissy fits because if she belongs to Flint, then Flint has to belong to her and she can't be just a possession or he will never love her the way she loves him; and he was kind of cagey on the whole monogamy issue. The socio-political aspect of being taken to a planet where she has absolutely no legal rights...seems to go right over her head. A similar scenario occurs later in the book where she basically demands Flint break the law on his planet and never even thinks to ask "Hey, what exactly could happen to you for breaking the law"? Or perhaps in her agitated emotional state she thinks Cyborg laws are really more like suggestions.
Flint for his part is OK, but he doesn't have much personality. He's rather stoic and uncommunicative; but in his defense he really doesn't understand why he should be more forthcoming. He seems to be genuinely befuddled by Mira's emotions. He doesn't mean to hurt her, and really he has the best of intentions. Between his laconic interpersonal style and Mira's tendency to make assumptions instead of asking rational questions they just don't communicate well.
Flint also chuckles ALLOT. He doesn't laugh, guffaw, snort, or snicker. It was sort of weirdly creepy until I realized that everyone chucked allot. Not that that necessarily made it any better.
I also noticed there were some editorial mistakes. I'm not usually at all bothered by that sort of thing, I just thought it was weird to see it in a popular mass marketed work. Not blatant editing errors but weird sentence structure, like the author changed directions in mid-sentence and it never got cleaned up.
A couple of quick examples would be: "She stared up into his face with, fighting the urge to shut her eyes..." and "Hot tears filled gathered and her shoulders slumped". Just odd.
In summary, I'm on the fence. I do want to read Iron and Zorus's stories, but for the length and quality I think the "books" are somewhat over-priced.
purpleceders's review
5.0
Really good book. A little frustrating but totally worth reading through. I love Flint and Mira. Very nicely written. Can't wait to read the next one.
lrnunez's review
1.0
I don't think I have a HATED a book so much. i LOST ANY RESPECT I had to begin with for this author. I knew the main what the main story line of the book was going to be about but I had know idea that the heroine spends the entire book giving up what little dignity she had to begin with. Let me make this clear. Romance books are supposed to usually go like this, "Man meets woman, they fall for each others beauty/wit, man underestimates woman, woman sets him straight and comes out looking like the strong baddass she is, woman doesn't take shit from the man, man admits he was wrong or is awed at the treasure he has found in her, they sacrifice all for each other, live happily ever after, the end". No matter how different the plot in the book may be, the structure is supposed to vaguely go like that.
THIS BOOK DOES NOT HAVE ANY LOVE IN IT AT ALL. What it has is the woman groveling at the feet of the man and the man treating her like property. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorantly wrong. Basically the man makes the woman do everything he says and continues throughout the entire book to call her property. He only agrees to do the one thing she asks for because someone else says he can and she threatens to kill herself if she doesn't. I am furious to know that a woman wrote this book thinking any of this was acceptable. If you stand up for any woman's rights at all you will know what I'm talking about and hate this book. I actually read another of this author's books and thought it was ok, but after reading this book I have lost all respect for the author and will never read one of her books again. I recommend the same. IT WAS INSULTING TO ME AS A WOMAN!
THIS BOOK DOES NOT HAVE ANY LOVE IN IT AT ALL. What it has is the woman groveling at the feet of the man and the man treating her like property. Anyone who says otherwise is ignorantly wrong. Basically the man makes the woman do everything he says and continues throughout the entire book to call her property. He only agrees to do the one thing she asks for because someone else says he can and she threatens to kill herself if she doesn't. I am furious to know that a woman wrote this book thinking any of this was acceptable. If you stand up for any woman's rights at all you will know what I'm talking about and hate this book. I actually read another of this author's books and thought it was ok, but after reading this book I have lost all respect for the author and will never read one of her books again. I recommend the same. IT WAS INSULTING TO ME AS A WOMAN!