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The Cyborg Tinkerer
by Meg Latorre
I was definitely not the target audience for this book. The premise was promising but it turned out to be an average romance book.
The Cyborg Tinkerer takes place in space, more specifically the Crescent Star System. We are introduced to Gwen who is the main character and a ship tinkerer. Gwen is dying, she has but one chance at living. Become a Cyborg. Only problem? Cyborgs are banned.
It sounds interesting and the stakes are high however Gwen gets her treatment almost immediately, without any real effort, finds herself in the middle of a Hunger Games like completion and spends the rest of the book insta-loving and f*cking.
There are a lot of plot holes I had trouble ignoring and the character development was non-existing.
The mistress of the circus starts an insane competition pinning performers against each other and no one complains, resist, attempts to rebel or murder the mistress, escape ect. We never hear any character, other than Gwen, express an opinion on the matter. They all just take it. I understand that their situation is dire but it doesn’t make sense. When people feel their life is threatened they fight or flight, it’s human nature.
Also, the reason for this competition is flimsy at best. The mistress of the circus supposedly created this competition in order to harvest the cyborg parts her performers had and use them for her cyborg army without anyone being the wiser. My question is, why did she need to harvest them? The Cyborg army never played any significant role and the cyborgs were all under her control right from the beginning anyway. The moment the emperor invited the circus she could go straight to him with triple the force she ended up having. It makes no sense.
What really disappointed me was that the romance, which was the focal point, was bad. There was no build up, no reasoning, and no payoff. Gwen falls in love with an acrobat instantly, fantasizes about her, risks her life for her and professes love within like….what?...a week? Gwen knows nothing about her, she just lusts after her body. The other romance, because there’s a polyamorous relationship in this book, was a teensy-weensy bit more develop but still rushed and not believable. Not to mention that the polyamorous aspect was not explored at all, it was addressed and resolved in like…a paragraph? I was listening to the audiobook. None of the people involved needed a moment to think about it? Where both Gwen’s lovers so cool?
It feels like the author wanted to address a lot of serious issues but was afraid to get her hands dirty or explore the darkness.
The Cyborg Tinkerer takes place in space, more specifically the Crescent Star System. We are introduced to Gwen who is the main character and a ship tinkerer. Gwen is dying, she has but one chance at living. Become a Cyborg. Only problem? Cyborgs are banned.
It sounds interesting and the stakes are high however Gwen gets her treatment almost immediately, without any real effort, finds herself in the middle of a Hunger Games like completion and spends the rest of the book insta-loving and f*cking.
There are a lot of plot holes I had trouble ignoring and the character development was non-existing.
The mistress of the circus starts an insane competition pinning performers against each other and no one complains, resist, attempts to rebel or murder the mistress, escape ect. We never hear any character, other than Gwen, express an opinion on the matter. They all just take it. I understand that their situation is dire but it doesn’t make sense. When people feel their life is threatened they fight or flight, it’s human nature.
Also, the reason for this competition is flimsy at best. The mistress of the circus supposedly created this competition in order to harvest the cyborg parts her performers had and use them for her cyborg army without anyone being the wiser. My question is, why did she need to harvest them? The Cyborg army never played any significant role and the cyborgs were all under her control right from the beginning anyway. The moment the emperor invited the circus she could go straight to him with triple the force she ended up having. It makes no sense.
What really disappointed me was that the romance, which was the focal point, was bad. There was no build up, no reasoning, and no payoff. Gwen falls in love with an acrobat instantly, fantasizes about her, risks her life for her and professes love within like….what?...a week? Gwen knows nothing about her, she just lusts after her body. The other romance, because there’s a polyamorous relationship in this book, was a teensy-weensy bit more develop but still rushed and not believable. Not to mention that the polyamorous aspect was not explored at all, it was addressed and resolved in like…a paragraph? I was listening to the audiobook. None of the people involved needed a moment to think about it? Where both Gwen’s lovers so cool?
It feels like the author wanted to address a lot of serious issues but was afraid to get her hands dirty or explore the darkness.