Guest Review: Techno Thrall by Storm Grant

Deyla Reckard is lonely. She doesn’t have anyone at home to cuddle up to but when she stops to think about it, she doesn’t really want that. But she does want the skin to skin contact. So she picks up men and sleeps with them. Unfortunately she’s not getting the emotional feedback she needs.Eight years earlier Deyla was a Marine. She had been in a plane crash due to pilot error…the pilot was a robot. Since then she’s had a strange version of PTSD and her senses have been heightened. She hates technology because of what happened years earlier. During a confrontation with the pleasure robot that they’ve been looking for she kind of has a melt down. Heading to her cabin to decompress she meets a man who looks like the pleasure robot but he says he’s the original model that the robots are based on. Deyla starts to fall in love after a day and can’t wait to spend more time with this man. Unfortunately things take a little turn when not expected and she heads back to work and civilization.

Will she find the companionship she’s looking for…and will the man she loves turn out to be a robot or a human?

This book was very unusual. It flowed nicely up until the end but I never really got a sense of who Deyla was. She wanted the companionship, but she didn’t. She wanted human contact, but she didn’t. She was very at odds with herself and I just couldn’t connect with her on any level.

There is a huge twist at the end of the book that I more or less had figured out but was still mildly surprised by. Unfortunately right after the twist was revealed the book ended with nothing further happening. It was jolting to have it end that way and didn’t give me any sort of satisfaction. Although the book started off well it quickly went downhill for me.

Rating: 2 out of 5