Spitfire Reads

By: D Vessa

Rating: 5

Spicy: 3

“If the life I left taught me anything, it’s that the people closest to you, the ones you think you can trust without a second thought, are the first ones to destroy you until you have nothing left.” The quote that really had me sitting back and thinking. The quote that genuinely locked me in with this book and the journey I was about to be on. The quote that will stick with me for a while. 

I have been in a season where this couldn’t speak any louder than it has. I have talked to so many people about the same topics. It just seems that this book was the peak point of “didn’t know I needed this until I read it.” Yet I have already had this discussion. This book though just had me step back and say “it’s time for me to speak my peace.” That is exactly what I did and then I picked this book back up and finished in within the same day. 

This is a long book. One that I genuinely think everyone should read. But usually I give you a glimpse of what goes on in the book to have you hooked to read it. Today though, I am going to give the broadest description possible. This book is just different from what D. Vessa has written before and I think you just need to have the trust in me to go read it! 

Sutton is running away for the sake of her life. She thinks she finds the perfect town to lay low in but sadly she finds out too late that she didn’t run far enough. But the beauty in that, she found her family. The people that are willing to protect her and at whatever cost. They are the ones that she realizes wont destroy you but everything around you so it wont hurt you. 

This book has been a different book than anything D. Vessa has written before. Being part of her street team, she did give us a warning about that but I don’t think we even needed that warning. You could see it from the beginning of this book. It felt like she put her entire soul into this book. Pulled out the heartbreaking and raw moments and said “let me destroy you and fix you all at once.” There were so many quotes in this book that I sat back like “dang, this woman really let herself just feel while writing this.” You could just see the emotions with every word. Yet at the same time we did get some spice. 

The spice may not have been what we are normally used to in the smutty community but I think that was what was needed for this book. This book needed to be all about the heart break and pain that the FMC was going through. We needed to have causal smut moments that felt genuine and true to the characters and where they were at in life. Now there was a fun piercing spicy moment and that was downright delicious but the rest really catered to what the MC’s needed. We stayed true to the sadness and struggle more than the smut. I appreciated that so much. 

If I could read this book for the first time again, I would do it. I want to experience every moment for the first time again. Let me see the enemies to lovers. The pain turn into strength. The trust being built continuously. I want to experience this book for the first time, just one more time.