Thursday, April 15, 2021

Paladin by Anna Hackett [Review]

Paladin by Anna Hackett
Paladin (Galactic Gladiators: House of Rone #4) by Anna Hackett
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: March 23, 2020

Galactic Gladiators
(Find all the books in this amazing series on the 1st book review)
1. Gladiator

Galactic Gladiators: House of Rone
1. Sentinel
2. Defender
3. Centurion
4. PaladinKindle
5. Guard
6. Weapons Master

Anna Hackett
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
A cyborg drowning in emotions and an abducted Earth woman trying not to feel.

Abducted, enslaved, and constantly worried for her daughter, scientist Dr. Simone Li has had a rough few months. Now that she and her daughter, Grace, have been rescued by the fierce cyborgs of the House of Rone, she’s trying to make a life for them on the desert world of Carthago. But guilt and worry are eating at her…Toren—a once-emotionless cyborg—was injured rescuing them from the dangerous Edull aliens. Now, he’s inundated with emotions and not coping. Drawn to the wounded cyborg, Simone must find a way to help him and still protect her battered heart.

Bred to be a warlord’s personal cyborg, Toren has prided himself on being a cool, precise fighter dedicated to his house and imperator. Now his entire life has been torn apart. He’s broken, useless, and sidelined as an elite House of Rone cyborg. Every minute of every day, he struggles through a deluge of unfamiliar emotions and wants revenge…and only one woman calms the storm.

Desperate to bring down the Edull and rescue another abducted woman, Toren and Simone go undercover in the desert. Despite the dangers around them, these two tortured souls can no longer fight their intense attraction and the pull of fierce, overwhelming emotion. But Toren will soon have a choice to make: risk it all for love or go back to being the emotionless warrior he’s always been.
Thoughts on Paladin: Simone and her daughter have been rescued from slavery by the House of Rone cyborgs, but they're not entirely out of the woods yet. The Edull still have humans and other slaves in their grasp and Simone can't stand by and do nothing when she knows how bad their particular brand of slavery is.

Simone's also a little jumpy when it comes to potentially entering into a relationship after her last relationship crashed and burned. Seeing as how Toren is trying his best to go back to the emotionless existence he had before he was tortured by the Edull, them entering into blissful coupledom doesn't seem like it would be in the cards.

Except, you know, it is. Because Simone likes Toren and Toren likes Simone and Simone's daughter and neither of their hearts care about all the other stuff they're dealing with.

Another human finds her place on Carthago and another cyborg finds that it's not so bad falling for a human woman. GOOD STUFF!

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