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Saving Mathis (Steamy Cyborg Romance)
Denna Holm’s Saving Mathis is a science fiction romance built around Tara, a woman from 2026 who wakes aboard the cyborg ship Freedom with no clear memory of how she got there. Thrown into a future filled with cyborgs, alien species, and dangerous political tensions, Tara has to make sense of a life she never chose. From there, the book becomes a mix of survival, trauma recovery, alien politics, and slow-building trust between Tara and Mathis, the cyborg medic who saves her life.
Tara’s voice gives the novel its personality. She’s scared, confused, pregnant, and surrounded by people who distrust humans, but she still has a dry, wit that keeps the story from feeling too heavy all the time. Mathis starts out cold and clinical, shaped by cyborg history and his own fear of human control, but his protectiveness toward Tara gradually turns into something warmer and more personal.
The romance is tied closely to healing, which gives it more weight than a simple attraction story. Tara has to process what happened to her, what her pregnancy means, and whether she can build a life in a future that doesn’t feel like hers. Mathis also has to learn how to care without treating emotion like a system error. When he tells her, “I believe you will make an excellent mother, Tara,” it works because the book has spent so much time showing how badly both of them need tenderness, patience, and trust.
The larger world is packed with cyborgs, Vesperians, the Human Alliance, Raiden, Magenta, and a broader conflict that clearly reaches beyond this one couple. Holm gives the shipboard setting a tense, closed-in feeling, where every hallway and medical room reminds Tara that she’s both rescued and confined. The side characters, especially Althena, Illiana, Tessa, and Silvano, help widen the story into something bigger than one romance while still keeping Tara and Mathis at the center.
Saving Mathis is a dramatic and emotional sci-fi romance about finding safety in a place that first feels hostile. It has alien biology, cyborg politics, found family, trauma, motherhood, and a relationship that grows through uneasy conversations rather than instant trust. Readers who enjoy character-heavy futuristic romance with serious stakes and a lot of heart will find plenty to settle into here.
Pages: 352 | ASIN : B0DS1GXSN9
Saving Mathis
Saving Mathis is the second installment in the Cyborg Reborn series, which follows the story of Mathis, the head medic on a cyborg ship called Freedom. His past is riddled with the trauma inflicted upon him by humans over many centuries. However, despite this horrendous mistreatment from the Human Alliance, Mathis vows never to harm a human or any species considered weaker than cyborgs. Instead, he practices healing and strives for a life of peace after having escaped his ruthless captors.
Mathis adapts to life on the Freedom ship. He enjoys an existence without human contact until an unexpected event involves the rescue of a dozen human survivors from another ship, where they were held captive and impregnated by an alien species. This development poses a risk to the lives of twelve vulnerable humans saved from the Vesperian ship, and there is also a shift in priorities. Mathis’ focus quickly shifts to these women, who hold no power or future in this cold, robotic world of cyborgs and patriarchal rule. Without any memory of the traumatic events before the rescue, Tara, one of the twelve women, must rely on Mathis and his assurance of her safety, despite an uncertain life where women have few rights.
Throughout the book, the author reels readers in with vivid imagery, electric action, and a palpable feeling of dread, all while delving into the developing relationship between Mathis and Tara. Tara adjusts to a new world after waking from a coma and finds herself helpless and unlikely to survive. She must navigate her feelings and strategize how to live in this new world. I found her journey to be so compelling. Readers will find her endearing but capable and this dichotomy is explored in interesting ways in the story. As a survivor of human cruelty, Mathis, too, must find peace in this new life and decide if he can trust again. He is a character that has surprising depth and I found myself paying very close attention when he was on the page because I was deeply intrigued by his personality.
Saving Mathis offers a riveting sci-fi tale of survival and perseverance in a futuristic world where darkness and inequality reign, but a glimmer of hope shines through from the unlikeliest of species. Denna Holm’s writing is sharp and engaging, ensuring readers quickly lose themselves in this epic science fiction drama. Saving Mathis is a fantastic cyberpunk space opera that delivers some thought-provoking ideas in an entertaining story.
Pages: 353 | ASIN: B09VK943KN
