Releasing Rage Cyborg Sizzle Book 1 eBook Cynthia Sax
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Releasing Rage is a dark BBW Cyborg SciFi Romance.
Releasing Rage Cyborg Sizzle Book 1 eBook Cynthia Sax
SPOILER ALERT!I am so bitterly disappointed, I'm angry. To have the male and female protagonists fall in love only to have the female be violently gang-raped while the male is powerless to help....this is NOT romance. There were so many ways the author could have saved her, but chose not to. Why? She'd already suffered enough to identify with the male protagonist; it wasn't necessary.
I can't speak to the end of the book; after the gang-rape at 60% in, I deleted it from my device. No trigger warnings--if there had been, I would have avoided the book.
I am so thankful this book was free, but I am still resentful of the lost time spent reading it.
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Releasing Rage Cyborg Sizzle Book 1 eBook Cynthia Sax Reviews
I really wanted to like this book. I really loved Rage. I loved that the author made him all alpha male, without apology. I never expected cyborg erotica to be my thing, but Rage....mmmmm. BUT, this is the supposed to be the future, yet Joan, our heroine, is insecure, because she's plump and curvaceous. Now, I know the author wants the reader to identify with the MC, but we're still not past body issues, when we can build cyborgs? And Joan is the only woman engineer in her class, the only one on her space station, and she gets sexually harassed. Not even the guy she stood up for at in school defends her. No, he joins in. And that's not all the men do. Let's just say, it's not graphic, but it's awful. I've worked in an all-male environment. They're not all pigs. Yes, I was sexually harassed, but not by every single one of them, and none of them did what these guys did. I think the author just didn't want to deal with what to do with the men, in the story, and it made for more drama, but it actually offended me. Then ****SPOILER ALERT BUT NOT REALLY BECAUSE THE READER FIGURES IT OUT FIFTY PAGES BEFORE THE REVEAL***** there's a really stupid part, where Joan, the woman who was raised on a farm, with cows, thinks her bulging belly is caused by a parasite. *palm to face*
This was a rare case, where I read the whole book, going "Wow! This is great! She's a great writer!" And then I finished it, and the more I thought about it, the more I was like, "Whaaaaat" and "Wait a minute!" and actually getting angry about the broad brush of misandry that she painted men with. So, I had to deduct stars from what, otherwise, would have been a smashing, good read.
I enjoyed much of this story, but there were a few hangups.
The first thing is that there was plenty of room to flesh out the world a lot more. The book is under 200 pages and a standard romance novel is over 300 these days. Sci-fi will even allow for more pages. So there was room. It wasn't used. Wished it was, but what was there was interesting and makes you really wish there was a little more said as a result.
Trigger and spoiler warning Rape and assault. Going to talk about these things all throughout this review and reveal a couple surprises.
I feel like this book should come with a trigger warning. Yes it says dark sci-fi. Yes it says if you don't like violence try a lighter novel by the author. I'm cool with violence. This book is more twisted than violent. "Unthinkable" in the description doesn't really cut it when talking about rape, especially one of this magnitude. The rape itself isn't precisely described. You get a few pages of the preliminaries and it's referenced and insinuated throughout the book. The aftermath is graphic. These things don't bother me except they should have had more of a warning because this really is traumatic to surprise some people with.
That being said about the rape itself isn't bothering me (story wise--it was heartbreaking), the aftermath did along with a few other things the hero did. SPOILERS the hero literally chooses to lick her clean all over after this, and there are all sorts of bodily fluids involved. This is graphic and gross and bizarre. It's used as a device to insinuate the hero cares about the heroine that much. This is like the, "Would you pick my nose for me if I broke both my arms?" The answer is NO. They make nose suckers for that and there is no reason to shove a finger up there if your arms are broken. Don't lick bodily fluids off a rape victim. It's not a show of devotion. It's gross and lacks common sense. Use the wash cloth you have right in front of you.
In the aftermath of the rape the heroine is virtually unscathed mentally by the attack and totally ready to have sex. The excuse is that she made them beat her into unconsciousness first therefor it's way less traumatic. I don't know if people know much about rape, but being passed out and then being raped by literally dozens, if not more, people doesn't negate the trauma. A lot of the trauma from rape will come from such a violent assault anyway. It is TRAUMATIC. It is very jarring to see a character not really seem traumatized, or shocked, or even taken aback for more than a few minutes. All of the supposed trauma later seems like an afterthought covered by an extra sentence or two thrown in. It felt very artificial and very Mary Sue at that point, which is very disappointing because it didn't feel like that until that moment.
And the other thing I remembered while writing this review she was raped by humans, but when she turns up pregnant, no one questions if this might be a human baby. It's not. The epilogue does ensure readers know that. The reason I bring it up in the review is that this furthers the point that the rape and the associated trauma was an after thought. If someone is gang raped, and then finds themselves pregnant a short time later, their first assumption is not that their boyfriend, who isn't supposed to be able to impregnate them, is the father. They're more likely to worry that maybe one of those rapists is the unfortunate father.
My last point of criticism is the hero literally kept telling the heroine that she was his to use until he killed her. She totally goes along with this. Doesn't worry her one bit and even tells it to him. This is all of the nope. Not okay. This isn't, "I'll kill you if you're working for the enemy." or "I'll kill you if you abuse me like the others." This is flat out, "I intend to kill you on the day of my choosing and I want you to know that's going to happen no matter what." Just no.
So I have those lengthy criticisms up there but I'm still giving it three stars. I did like the story even if it could have used a little more fleshing out in the world building. A lot of the above criticisms were a part of the book, but they didn't necessarily define the story. I feel like if the author just tweaked a few things here and there and took it down half a notch, these would have been edgy instead of crazy. Because they are crazy.
tl;dr. The book goes too far to be believable (and makes the characters seem mentally unstable in the worst way) in a couple places, but if you can squint and tune out a couple rough patches, it's worth reading.
SPOILER ALERT!
I am so bitterly disappointed, I'm angry. To have the male and female protagonists fall in love only to have the female be violently gang-raped while the male is powerless to help....this is NOT romance. There were so many ways the author could have saved her, but chose not to. Why? She'd already suffered enough to identify with the male protagonist; it wasn't necessary.
I can't speak to the end of the book; after the gang-rape at 60% in, I deleted it from my device. No trigger warnings--if there had been, I would have avoided the book.
I am so thankful this book was free, but I am still resentful of the lost time spent reading it.
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