Anyone who's read Ann Lister's Rock Gods series I'm sure waited with their twitching one-click fingers locked and loaded for the clock to strike midnight. You know what the best part is? This book will blow everyone away—their Goddess absolutely, positively, with everything I can think of under the sun, hasn't let them down.
Zac's Mulligan is the first book in the Guarding the Gods spinoff series. As the author promised—to herself, as much as to her fans—we'd not seen the last of our boys from Black Ice mostly, with just enough Ivory Tower to take the edge off.
Remember, this is about a whole new bunch of characters. These are the guys that put themselves out there protecting our rockers.
Ok, first batter up is Zac Mulligan—ex-military, now an employee for Ventura Security Group. Going back to the last book, Beyond the Music, Zac was wounded in the clusterf#ck of all that was Sebastian Keating—knife-wielding, disgruntled, wannabe columnist ~ he's irrelevant after that because he doesn't deserve any more notability. There's someone that's been taking front and center in Zac's mind—Ben Holland. Ben was his childhood friend, and by the time they graduated high school they had already turned into something more.
With Lincoln's suggestion, Zac decides to see what Ben has been up to for the last ten years, as he heads back to the States to heal. Yes folks, ten years. A lot can change in ten years.
As much as Ben and Zac have grown, each with an impressive resume—Ben is an accomplished and well sought-after photographer and artist—they still exhume innocence, maybe something carried over and not lost from their youth since that's exactly where they left off with each other. Hoping that the years haven't permanently torn them apart, Zac experiences for the first time, the anger and bitterness of Ben's reaction at his intrusive return into Ben's life considering Zac had all but abandoned him when he left for the service. Life wasn't easy for Ben after Zac left. Zac knew going into a war zone who he was going up against, where as Ben was blindsided and left to pick up the pieces of his life that were shattered from the very places and people that should have nurtured him.
In the course of this brilliant story, Ben and Zac professionally and personally weave their way into each other's lives. Finally, for the both of them, the truthful and bittersweet acknowledgement of a love that never had a proper chance to find its place, rekindles itself—their feelings for each other throughout all the years have never faltered. In order for any of Ann's characters to get their priorities where they should be, in one way or another, they go through hell to get to heaven. Call it "a lesson learned" or "seeing the light", there's always plenty of raw emotion and heart tugging situations swirling around. Zac And Ben are smoking hot together as well—it's more of a slow burn than a jumping in right away. I truly loved watching the two of them as they navigated their way back to each other.
Zac's Mulligan has plenty of banter and fun and games amongst all the band members. Because the story now focuses on a new crew, Ann can do whatever she wants with all or any of the band members. All Rock Gods fans are going to go nuts at what goes on on-stage, or in a bar, or even in Dagger's hotel bathroom (take one guess!) There's also a section that is so intense and well written that I hadn't even realized I was holding my breath the whole time.
Of course there are bits that lead to the next in the series that will involve Fizzbo and a new character, Kensey.
I can't rave enough about Zac's Mulligan. Ann Lister really knocked this one outta the ballpark. The storyline was brilliant, her attention to detail painstaking, along with Zac and Ben and her cast of epic supporting characters, made this first book of the Guarding the Gods series, hands down a five plus star read for me. Just an incredible job by an outstanding author!!
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