Review: 5 *OMG* STARS
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 1, 2014
Sweet Baby Jeebus! Okay so when I first read the synopsis for the this story I thought to myself “hmmn...this is different, maybe it will be interesting”. Being that I had reached the point where I read myself into a Contemporary Romance coma, I was looking for something to spice up my typical reading line up and a Sci-Fi erotica was so outside my normal genre that I thought hell, why not! And HOLY MACKERAL, I TOTALLY MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE! Who knew that a guy with bionic parts could be so damn HOT!Alright now that, that’s all cleared up lets dive in.The Exchange doesn’t take place too far in the future despite the content of the story and technology being ridiculously advanced. Part 1 is told through the POV of the male protagonist Maxwell Landon code name, finger lickin’ good wipe the drool of your face, Deimos. He is a well-oiled killing machine sent on a mission to escort Magdalena Heaton who in reality is deceased, yes I said deceased, killed in an accident. Magdalena really is just a vessel for a self-learning and self-evolving artificial intelligence named Sapphire. Built by a remarkable scientist whom she views as her father, her creation was commissioned by the real Magdalena’s biological father in an attempt to save his daughter’s life. Confusing? Slightly yes but stay with me here cause it gets better and all the more intriguing, because there are people after Sapphire. People who want to harvest her capability and use it for their own benefit. She is not safe and Deimos is intent on protecting her if it’s the last thing he does.Now Deimos is a force to be reckoned with, built to destroy with a good portion of his body made up of bionic parts; he is fierce, raw, powerful, and sexy as all hell. He is the caged beast you want to let free and shout “Do what you will, I’m yours, ravish me!”. Blanco does an excellent job of telling the story through his eyes. His internal dialogue will not only have you swooning like a b*tch in heat because he screams alpha but cracking up at the sheer honesty of his emotions and how barefaced he is about what’s going on inside the head on his shoulders and with the head in his pants. Insert daydreaming about what’s in Deimos pants here…sigh * SMACK TO FACE* now back to the review. But let’s not forget about Sapphire, this chick is bada$$. She is fast, agile, of course intelligent, strong and determined.  In some scenes her character surprised the crap out of me revealing just another awesome trait hiding within her small frame.  Sparks fly between Sapphire and Deimos and boy it is intense between these too, like a volcano waiting to erupt. But there is something else there, something very subtle brewing beneath the surface between them that I hope and can’t wait to see further developed in the next book.This story is high intensity, constant action and very entertaining. Between unraveling who may be the threat to Sapphire, the fighting sequences and the melt the walls of a room attraction between Deimos and Sapphire I think I might have been holding my breath during a few scenes waiting for what would happen next. Blanco creates a very interesting, erotic story that I didn’t even see coming. The end of part one is one of those, oh s*** facepalm, moments that will leave your mouth hanging openI totally loved this book; it surprised me and kept me wanting to read more. Now the only problem is the wait for the next part, booooooo.*Received gifted copy