Spitfire Reads

By: Nikki J Summers 

Rating: 5

Spicy: 4

This was a hard book to listen to for the sole purpose that I was not ready to let this series go. I have been hanging onto this one for a while. Pretty sure since they have come out. I remember seeing a reel for The Reaper and ever since I have been hooked. So to start this book, I was excited to see how this story was going to go but at the same time I was not excited that we were ending this chapter. I know I have more to listen to and read from Nikki J Summers but this was a wonderful first series to start with this author. Honestly I will now be going back and listening to her other books! I’m hooked. 

Any who, this is another case of “oh crap, Im head over heels in love with this person and they don’t know it.” To which seems to be my theme lately on tropes. Any way, The MMC goes to the bank and the FMC does as well. But the FMC also has her daughter in tow. When bank robbers come into the bank, the MMC instantly becomes protective of the FMC and her daughter. He is doing everything he can to occupy the little girls attention and to not have her focus on all that may be scaring her. He steps up and tries his hardest to get the attention on him instead of the other in the bank. If he has their attention then he knows the rest will be safe. 

This is a short overview because this is another one of those ones where a good like 60% of the book is set in the bank robbery time. So to explain it further, I am giving away the majority of the plot and the last little bit is also the part where everything get intense. It would be a disservice to explain it all when this is a series I highly recommend everyone needs to listen to. I recommend listening but at the same time reading is just fine too! 

Author Nikki J Summers honestly made it difficult to decided where this book would rank for myself in this series. It has to be tied with The Joker in second place.  I am obsessed with The Player, it gets first place, but The Joker and The Thief truly are neck and neck on the perfection. This entire series was one where all of the boys didn’t seem to want any sort of relationship. They were all content with just the guys being together and running their business. But slowly one by one they started falling in love with their ladies and started realizing that life needed to change. No longer is life the same as it once was. So they all started to find their new paths. 

This is where I started dying. Ok, the emotions started to pick up. I knew they had to grow up and they had to move on from the unaliving and the violence. I get it. I support it but it doesn’t mean that I wasn’t like “woah, wait! They need to still be close friends!” To which they are, they just don’t live all in one building that also happens to be a club. But to see that happening and realizing they were all starting to have kids too, ugh I was struggling. I have no problem admitting that I get truly invested in characters and books. This series though, I was absolutely invested like no other. I’m ok with this. This is how I want to feel when reading someone’s work. I want to feel like they are my best friends and I am watching them fall in love and moving on with life from where they came from. This series just hit all the check marks I didn’t know I had. 

So with that, I am absolutely thankful to have taken this trip with 5 best friends. I absolutely adore how this series ended. It just continued to get better as time went on. But now I am off to finish the next series by Nikki J Summers. It starts with Renegade Hearts.