Review: Total Hunkathon
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2012
Read the small print--it does say that it's a reprint.  I saw a cyberevolution story and just clicked the button without reading the product description.  It was disappointing that it was something I'd already read, but I didn't have it in Kindle format (I don't think), so it worked out OK.I love Kaitlyn O'Connor's Cyberevolution stories.  I love cyborg romances.  I love futuristic romance, romantic science fiction, non-romantic science fiction, and fantasies.  I love just plain romances.  This series and this story hits most of my hot buttons.  The romance, rather than the science fiction or futuristic part, is foregrounded. Both are satisfying.  I won't recap the plot--the product description does a good job of that.THE GOOD:I love the guys.  They are so clueless and so lovable.  Their lack of understanding of love, emotion, women, and sex is adorable.  Also believable.  Since current human men are also often clueless, this was a very believable story element, especially when the heroes are "born" adult without any childhood experiences with love, relationships, emotion, or even self-determination.  They're floundering.  I also like that the heroine is a bit clueless as well.  She really has no experience with romantic relationships, though she does at least have experiences and memories about family relationships, such as they were.  It's both funny and endearing when she is puzzled by the guys being upset when she calls them her "best buds".  Sounds a bit like present-day relationships where the guys are upset when the girl says "let's be friends" (which may mean "I'm not ready to sleep with you yet") and the female wonders why, it's a very believable story element.  The guys' eagerness to please her and complete lack of understanding about how to accomplish this goal is cute.  Kane and Jared are indignant when she wants to rescue the only person with whom she's had intimate relations--a cyborg prostitute--because they don't understand why she didn't tell them if she needed relief--they, after all, have the same programming.  Again, it's endearing.  Chloe is also one of my favorite of the series' heroines.Have I said I love the heroes?  I want to take them home and keep them.  :)  Where's the cyborg store?  If I put them on my Christmas list, will Santa bring them to me?It tickled me that the guys kept calling Damon "that [f-censored-ing] [f-censored] droid".  For me, at least, that never grew old.  If you have issues with the f-bomb, this may not be the book for you, however.  There is plenty of that.THE BAD:The individual books of the series, while theoretically able to stand alone, are more enjoyable when read in order.  The first time I read them, I read them out of order and there were some things that I didn't catch (or that confused me) until the second time through when I read them in order.  If you read the series, there are some characters with similar (or the same) name, which can be confusing.  Also, the main elements are enough alike that some readers may find them formulaic.  While I recognize this, I did not find the similarities to get in the way of my enjoyment.  Not all the books were equally good/interesting.  I have to say, however, that there was not one hero in the series that I didn't love and not one book I hated.  I didn't always love the heroines as well, but they were both believable and likeable.CONCLUSION:I want more!  I love the shared world.  I love the cyborgs, male and female.  I love their society.  Ms. O'Connor, please give us more!