Review: N. Isabelle Blanco did it again!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2014
I love N. ISABELLE BLANCO’s writing! She is one of the very few authors I’d read anything from – even without knowing the blurb. …otherwise I never would have picked up THE EXCHANGE PART I. I think it’s the first book with a touch of Sci-Fi I’ve ever read. One, Sci-Fi never was one of my favorite topics at all and second, with English not being my mother language I was not sure if I would understand everything good enough to keep track. So, yes, I had to look up a few terms, but altogether I am so glad I took a chance on this book!!How far advanced is the bionic technology nowadays? Do you know? Would you believe that there are people in this world with one or even two bionic arms and that the world’s first AI has already been successfully created? Well, this is the world of Maxwell Landon, who prefers to be called by his code name: Deimos. He is one of the most efficient and annihilating killers out there, only his job this time is different: Not to destroy, but to protect and escort Magdalena Heaton – the girl who died in a car crash and whose memories were transferred back into her body again as the world’s first AI – back to her father. Only Deimos cannot shake the feeling that the person in Magdalena’s body is someone else – someone that gets his cold heart beating again, someone who attracts him like no one else before…While all these putting Magdalena back into her body and bringing her back to life stuff was initiated by her biological father who was not able to let his only daughter go, it was the exceptional scientist Dr. Allen who brought the self-learning artificial intelligence who is now using Magdalena’s body and calls herself Sapphire to life. Despite being an AI, Sapphire will do anything to keep her creator – whom she is secretly calling “father” – safe. And Deimos – the more he learns about her – the more he wants to help, protect, and – yes, let’s face it – ravish her and make her his…Deimos, with his bionic arms, is a killing machine you don’t want to mess with. But he is also sexy as hell and raw. The book is completely told from his point of view and I absolutely loved it! His internal dialogues, how he fights his feelings and his most primal urges and how he is still being funny yet unapologetic about it. It is the kind of alpha male that has you swooning all the time!Then we have Sapphire… she is a force of her own. Strong, determined, fast and of course hyper intelligent – doing things that made me question how much humanity she really possesses. Then the next second she shows her human side – caring and loving – and not being immune at all against Deimos’ sexiness.The attraction between these two is palpable, winding up more and more until it erupts with a huge BANG like a volcano in the end! It is this intensity, this rawness between Blanco’s characters that makes her books this one-of-a-kind. I simply love it!While this book is completely told from Deimos’ perspective, I would love to get an insight of what it is like to be in the complex mind of Sapphire in book #2.So if you are in for an erotic fairytale with a touch of sci-fi, this book will truly not disappoint! But then again, even if sci-fi is not your cup of tea but you love a good erotic romance that is heating up your kindle this still might just be the book for you!Be prepared for a mean cliffhanger though – one that makes you wishing book #2 would be released like NOW!!!