Cocktails and Books
Written on Apr 3, 2016
MERCY picks up right where REIGN (book one in the series) left off. Jillian's step-father was shot by Zeek and now he and Jillian were on the run from the dirty cops in Vegas, Zeek's uncle's mob flunkies and Zeek's own MC. There only option, as far as Zeek thinks, is to run to California and his brother's club.
Now if you've read the DEVIL'S DUST MC series, you know Lip and Zeek do not have a good relationship. OK....that's probably putting it mildly. But it was a testament to how Zeek was feeling about family that he was willing to turn to a brother that would rather kill him than help him and Jillian. And that right there made me fall even harder for Zeek. He wasn't a guy who was used to love or even lukewarm feelings for woman. They were good for one thing and one thing only...until Jillian. And as they run, Zeek's only thought is to protect the woman he loves. He may fight with Jillian, force elderly people to let them share their hotel room, steal a stoners van or even kill Jillian's step-father, but he does all of it for is love of Jillian. It's kinda hard not to like him.
Jillian bugged me a bit in this one. She was so strong in the first book. Stood up for what she believed in, even if that meant sleeping with the notorious president of the Sin City Outlaws. But in this book, she was a little whiny. Yes, Zeek killed her step-father, but she blamed Zeek rather than listening to the bigger picture that Zeek kept giving her. She kept worry about what was happening to her, instead of understanding what Zeek's action truly meant (when she freaked out about being at the drug house I wanted to smack her). But she finally got herself together. Understood who the bad guys were and realized that sometimes the guys in white are the good guys.
MERCY was exactly what I've come to expect from MN Forgy. Gritty characters and storylines with a heart buried in there just begging to get out. Zeek was a hard man, but it took a special girl to break through his emotional walls to find the heart worth having.