Review: Continuous Action & Adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 3, 2013
This is only the second book of Barbara Elsborg's that I've read and I am hooked on her writing. I literally felt like I was in the midst of a James Bond movie as I was reading the story. Although Logan is much more Daniel Craig than Sean Connery, which was more than fine with me. Every moment of the story was packed full of action, betrayal, death, intrigue, romance, sex, drugs, and rock & roll. *grins* It was sheer excitement on every page and I loved it.Logan sneaked into my heart almost from the beginning, with Zak a very close second. Logan works for MI6 (sexy) and during his last undercover role, a fellow employee outed him, so to speak, leaving Logan to be beaten to within an inch of his life. His boss stepped in and he was cared for medically along with them giving him a new face. Not exactly what he wanted, but when you're near death, you'll agree to just about anything.MI6 "killed him off" and now he has no one, since his old self and life are dead. His boss loves to remind him how much they spent saving him, too. What a manipulative creep!His boss gives him a job to bodyguard a young man whose father they suspect is involved with the Russian mafia. In fact, that was Logan's undercover assignment before. Zak is a mess. His mother died in an accident almost a year ago and since then he's done everything possible to derail his life. He dismantled his band which was very close to world fame, he stopped playing his violin and composing. Zak moved from Moscow to London to start over, except all he did was drink, do drugs, have a lot of nameless hookups, and be depressed. So, at first, Zak doesn't think anything of a couple of mishaps, until he realizes someone is trying to kill him. At first he isn't on board with dad hiring him a bodyguard, but it's a good thing as someone shoots at him as he and Logan are leaving their initial meeting. And Logan has to figure out who is trying to kill Zak, is it tied to his father, is MI6 involved, and is there anyone remotely trustworthy?So, now there's a calm, controlled spook for MI6 trying to protect a spoiled, unruly guy who doesn't take orders and chaos follows him. Oh, it's my dream characters! The best part? Logan and Zak are both tops. Well, I'll just say that there are some definite dominance issues. However, Logan and Zak have more in common than I originally thought. They both had lonely childhoods with absent fathers and manipulative mothers. Logan had brothers but one was sent to boarding school and his identical twin is autistic. Logan had to drop out of school at sixteen and work because the small amount of money his dad sent each month covered the boarding school and the institution. Zak was an only child who just wanted to be loved, but his mother considered him a mistake and his father was gone all the time. His father does love him, very much, he just wasn't around a lot.There is so much going on in this story that not once was I bored, nor was I able to put it down and feed my husband. He knows how to make a sandwich. There was betrayal and greed at the most basic of levels along with lies and machinations. There was also love, and a sweetness to it that both men really needed, a gentleness, and a wildness. This is a fantastic story that I loved. Read it. You won't regret it.NOTE: This book was provided by Samhain Publishing for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews