Stealing Coal

Cyborg Seduction Series, Book 5

By: Laurann Dohner

Narrated by: Mindy Kennedy

Book 5 in the Cyborg Seduction series.

Jill has learned the hard way that men can’t be trusted and sex only causes pain. In the lawlessness of space, women are a sexual commodity - to be used and abused. She’s doing a man’s job, with only her father’s brutal reputation and three androids to help keep her alive when she sees a massive, handsome cyborg chained to a freight table. The abusive crew plans to sell him to fight in gruesome death matches.

It’s stupid, it’s insane, but Jill can’t leave him to such a horrible fate.

Coal has survived being a captive breeding slave and irreversible damage to his cyborg implants, but his honor is still intact. He’s grateful Jill saved him and he’ll repay her the only way he can. He’ll fix her - with his mouth, his hands and his body. He can teach the little human just how much pleasure she’s capable of feeling.

©2011 Laurann Dohner (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Love is Healing

Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️.5
Heat Rating: 🔥🔥🔥
Narrator Performance: 🎧🎧🎧🎧

STEALING COAL is another great story by Laurann Dohner! We get to see Coal really coming into his own after everything that he’s been through. He’s definitely not a regular cyborg and it reflected in the way that he responded to Jill. It was nice seeing the different behavior from a cyborg in this series.

We first met Coal in book 3, MELTING IRON, where he was being abused by the numerous female cyborgs that he was with. Now it’s a few months later and this story picks up where we last saw him in book 4, TOUCHING ICE. However you don’t need to be caught up on the series in order to enjoy Stealing Coal. All of the books in the series stand alone pretty well. Although if you read them in order it gives you a better viewpoint of the series that in my opinion enhances the reader's enjoyment.

I very much enjoyed this book. There was action from the moment it started. Plus some good healing. A big part of the plot surrounded the point that the time the characters spent alone together was very therapeutic for them. And that love, trust, empathy and understanding go a long way. Plus good sex can do wonders LOL!

Mindy Kennedy did a great job with the narration of this book. She always gives an enjoyable performance. She’s got a wonderful pace that never fails to draw you into the story. She doesn’t do a lot of acting but she does put emotion in the words. I do wish however that she had more male voices in her repertoire.

Good read, poor performance

What did you love best about Stealing Coal?

I enjoyed the story as I do with all of Laurann Dohner's books, Coal is a very likeable character and so is Jill, I am very amused by the assumptions and wrong conclusions that keep happening throughout the series.

What did you like best about this story?

Coal didn't believe a message that was sent to the ship, I really liked his faith in his feelings for Jill and her feelings for him.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

The only problem I have is with the narration. The narrator takes a deep breath every few sentences and I found this to be a bit distracting and frustrating, like she got a brand new and very sensitive microphone to speak into. I have heard other books by this narrator, without the same issue. I hope future narrations won't have the same problem.

Previously abused, Coal gets lucky.

I really like the two characters that set off on a voyage of discovery. Both are damaged but still hopeful.

Not as good as I remembered

Don't get me wrong, this is 1still 1 of my favoured books in the series but I guess when I was actually reading it I just skimmed right through the gratuitous sex scenes cos I just didn't remember them being so detailed or prevalent. But I liked the essential story and its contribution to the over-arching series plot (which ends up going nowhere 🤨😤)

Love, love, loved it!

Another great story with fun, adventure humor and hot sex!!! As you can see, I loved this story and all those in the series up to this one. I am ready for the next one & can not wait. So good and so Hot!!!

Good Series But!!!

I think the stories are all pretty decent in this series but it doesn't really feel like a series. You can really read any of these as stand alone books. The received 4 stars rather than 5 Because:

1) there is very little follow up on previous characters when reading the whole series. That is one of the reason I love series is so I can check in with characters I already know and see how the relationships etc are progressing. There is mention of previous names but no real follow up on couples.

2) This series has a main point of breeding but none of the (female) characters ever get pregnant. I personally enjoy adding a family dynamic in romances that are specifically breeding oriented - even if just to say that the female is pregnant and not much else.
I have one more book (Redeeming Zorus) to go but am not holding out any hope for those things I feel are missing.

3) Again as in all the books in the series the sex scenes are OK but repetitive and very vanilla. Breasts get talked about but hardly ever touched. All the men are huge you know where and the women are so tight which that gets mentioned over and over.

I think the concept is great but the books could have been developed a bit more. It seems the author almost gets there but not quite, just a bit lacking. I really don't think it would take much to pull it all together and making the series great.

Mindy Kennedy makes the book come to life with her outstanding narration

Love this series!

Every time I finish my current book in this series it becomes my new favorite! Each cyborg has qualities that I love! I’m so glad the heroine isn’t too stupid to live and these two main characters are just great! So glad they found each other! Definitely worth the credit!

I did not think I would like this series !

listen to it until it was done and their narrator was pretty good The author is hotter than hot being an older woman My sex life is virtual these days lol So it's nice to be able to read these books in these series. you might say my sex life is vicarious sadly but it's better than none! This serious just gets better and better. I love Coal I love these guys having feelings. looking forward to the next one and the a****** getting his comeuppance!!

Endearing Cyborg Romance

Stealing Coal was an enjoyable listen. Like the other Cyborg stories this one was hot and lusty but was really more about two people finding love after being abused by those that should've been loving to them. It was more endearing and tender than some of the other stories because Coal didn't have the inner technology to control his emotions like his Cyborg buddies, so it was nice that he just felt and let it all hang out there. Coal's story is somewhat tame until about the last three hours where things really rev up considerably--that's not to say that the other 4 or so hours were lacking, but, they weren't as 'charged' as some of the preceding books have been right from the start. All that said, this series is still a winner for me and I'll continue to purchase however many books remain. It's priced reasonably, so I don't recommend using a credit.

Coal’s story!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 😠😚😁😍
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Solo Narration

The heroine: Jill - her father died a year ago and was one of the most brutal men in the business. Jill now runs his trading business on her own, staying safe on the basis of her father’s reputation. She knows space isn’t safe for a lone woman. Women are used for one thing in space, so she adds to the cruelty of her fathers reputation whenever she can talk about it.

The Hero: Coal - he was a character in the last two books, we first saw him as a captive of all the cyborg women who were stranded on a desolate planet. He was used as their captive breeder and they made him father multiple children with the women. We next saw him in the last book when he bravely chose to stay behind on a ship that was on fire to give up the pods to our last books main couple. But when Meagan decided to go into a one-person pod with Ice, then Coal decided to do the same with a council member.

The story: While on a trading mission, Jill comes across Coal, a cyborg who was captured and is now chained to a freight table in the ship where she just conducted her business. The crew plans to sell Coal to fight in a gladiator type fight to the death. The men are punching Coal while he is chained up and have a much worse fate for him in mind. Jill wouldn’t want that fate for anyone, so she frees Coal and they escape together.

You have to feel for Coal and all he has suffered. He was held by the cyborg females for quite a long time and kept escaping them for months at a time. Those same women chained him naked to a bed and damaged the processors in his head so bad that the med teams were unable to fix them so now he can’t communicate with any onboard computers or any of his cyborg counterparts through his mind.

This book was told in dual points of view via solo narration and was narrated by Mindy Kennedy. She has been doing a great job on this series and I like her voice and her narration. She doesn’t really have different voices for men and women, but she is still pretty good and there are a few different accents she uses for women.