eBook, 113 pages (or so the Kindle says)
Published February 2012 by Ellora's Cave
ISBN 13: 9781419938528
Source: Author, for the purpose of an honest review
Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance
Series: Love Bots, book #4
Best read in order: No, each works as stand-alone & can be read out
of order
Stars: 4
Flames: 5
This is such a great series. Love-Bots stands apart from
many of the other paranormal romances out there because of the characters. They’re
steins, reanimated dead humans. They are being exploited and abused by humans.
Their programming inhibits them from making their own choices. Stein Frank King
of Zombie Underground has made it his mission in life to free them, reprogram
them and attempt to give them a normal life.
Kuriko is one of the many steins he has saved and freed. She
was being used as a prostitute by her makers. Part of her programming has made
it so that she never remembers any of her sexual experiences. It is a curse and
a blessing. She never has to remember the horrors of her past, but when her
reprogramming glitches she defaults back to prostitute mode and turns to the
streets and looks for paid sex.
Being the head honcho of ZU Frank often appears to his collogues
of freed steins as an over bearing father like figure. He truly believes that
he is just looking out for the best interests of his fellow steins. He only
wants what is best for them. He has always had feelings for Kuri, but never
acted on them. While trying to protect her during one of her programming
glitches a door is opened that he can’t turn his back on. He just never
imagined that his sexual healing would be sexually damaging to Kuri in the form
of her getting all of her sexual memories dumped on her at one time.
Kuri and Frank both have heartbreaking pasts. She’s been
used and abused as a sex toy in the form of a prostitute. Her faulty
programming with her sexual memories makes for some very awkward mornings. Frank
was built in the early days of steining. He’s a patchwork of multicolored parts
and scarred everywhere. He tries to stay behind the scenes and does his best to
make sure lifers (humans) never see him.
I liked their love story. They have many hurdles to overcome
for their relationship to actually work. They both need to make some changes
for it work. I loved where they ended up. The epilogue was a total shocker! As
with each book in the series they all work as a stand-alone and can be read in
any order. Daisy always brings some amazingly smutty good sex scenes to her
books and there was no disappointment in the heat that Kuri and Frank bring to
the book.
