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A review by divapitbull
Burning Up Flint by Laurann Dohner
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.