The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg by Honey Phillips [Review]

The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg (Cyborgs on Mars #1) by Honey Phillips
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: February 3, 2020

Cyborgs on Mars
0.5. High Plains Cyborg
1. The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg - Paperback | Kindle
2. A Fistful of Cyborg
3. A Few Cyborgs More
4. The Magnificent Cyborg
5. The Outlaw Cyborg
5.5. The Cyborg with No Name
5.6. Cyborg Rider

Honey Phillips
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

A desperate widow in need of a helping hand… even a cybernetic one.

Hattie came to Mars with high hopes. Hopes that she and her husband would be able to claim a plot of land, to create a home, perhaps even to start a family - all of the things that were now impossible on a troubled Earth. Instead, she’s lost everything, everything except the land, and in order to keep her homestead she needs help.

When help arrives in the form of a tall, gruff cyborg ranger, she is torn between her loyalty to the past and the promise of a new future. But when danger threatens, is she going to lose even that?

M-231 can barely remember the time before - before he became a cyborg, before he shut off his emotions, before he became both more and less than human. Until a stubborn, beautiful female - one who is no longer off limits - makes him remember what it is to feel.

Can Hattie and her cyborg overcome harsh conditions, troubled pasts, and a mysterious enemy to create a new future together?

Thoughts on The Good, the Bad, and the Cyborg: I have SUCH a soft spot for cyborgs who are supposed to be emotionless machines but who really have ALL THE FEELS for something. You know, like Morgan has for Hattie. He might not think he should have/could have emotions for this woman, but he very much does and I am 100% here for that.

As for Hattie, when an opportunity to escape her situation back on Earth presented itself, she took it even though it meant marriage to a man she only cared for as a friend. His death doesn't come as a huge shock, but it puts her in yet another sticky situation and she quickly agrees to Morgan's idea of teaming up so she can keep her land and homestead. The fact she does have some more-than-friends feelings for the big cyborg doesn't make it that much of a hardship, really.

A little intrigue and danger, some steamy looks that help warm both Morgan and Hattie on cold nights, and the potential for more than they expected on Mars makes me happy. GOOD STUFF!