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Synopsis
Dragonfly's body is not her own. Dragonfly is a combat doll: a living machine consigned to a life of endless bloodshed. Her fate is to be gripped until death by cruel engineering, whose strictures reward violence with pleasure, and threaten those who abstain with a fate far worse than death. When a single miserable stroke of fate strips her of both the women she’s come to love, Dragonfly is in search of someone to blame, and she finds it in Torvei: a doll whose strange faith seems to poison the air around her. She expects her revenge will be a simple matter. Death, after all, is in her nature. But Torvei’s connections run deeper than Dragonfly dares to imagine, and she may come to regret the things she is made to learn, before her work is done.
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UNLIMITED COMBAT DOLLS: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This adult sci-fi novel features a combat android conditioned through violent and sexual reward systems, exploring extremely dark themes of bodily autonomy, coercion, and trauma with explicit content.
What to know going in
This book has strong violence, explicit sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include sexual assault, captivity, dubious consent, death of partner, and grief (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
An intense adult sci-fi about a living weapon seeking revenge after devastating loss.