Review: Hot sex with an intelligent story.  I enjoyed it.  4   stars to the first half, 3 stars to the last half.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 20, 2011
TOUCHING ICE by Laurann Dohner.STORY BRIEF:Folion is a floating whorehouse in space.  All the working girls are androbots.  Clara the computer runs things, but one human is onboard as a safety backup - Megan.  Cyborgs are humans with some computer-type implants.  Earth humans tried to kill them all, but some escaped and now live on other planets.  Ice is a cyborg who has visited Folion several times.  When he's onboard, Megan secretly watches him.  She fantasizes about him.A drunk captain accidentally rams his spaceship into Folion, causing total damage.  Twelve androbots and Megan escape onto Ice's spaceship.  While there, Megan reprograms all the androbots to not service Ice.  While the androbots are being transported, the guys make use of them.  But none of the bots will service Ice.  Then Megan comes forward pretending to be a bot and offers to service him.  She's sweaty with no makeup and wearing unbecoming clothes.  She's better than nothing so Ice takes her to his room.  As they are having a lot of really great sex, the reader wonders if Ice knows or is guessing that she may not be a bot.REVIEWER'S OPINION:Trust Ellora's Cave to give us some hot sex.  That's the best part.  It was fun watching Megan pretending to be a bot.  The story was best during the first half.  The last half was less exciting, but good.  I was intrigued with one scene concerning claustrophobia.  It was different.DATA:Ebook story length: 3  hours.  Kindle count story length: 3834.  Swearing language: strong.  Sexual language: strong/erotic.  Number of sex scenes: 10, some were lengthy.  Setting: a future time traveling on spaceships.  Copyright: 2010.  Genre: erotic sci-fi romance.