It’s taken me a few weeks to write this review as I really needed to sit with this one awhile. I also re read it before writing my review too :) I think I had a hard time because if I wrote my review it would mean the Kingmakers journey was finally officially over and I just didn’t want it to end.
The Spy was a fantastic book! All of our questions were answered and every mystery was finally revealed. Once I finished it the first time I re read the entire series again and found even more tiny clues and breadcrumbs from every book that were so carefully crafted into the stories!
Now to the good stuff. I’m going to keep this spoiler free for the most part in case you haven’t read it bc I don’t want to reveal anything and wreck the mystery!!
The Spy: loved finding out who he was and getting that inside look at what his life had been like. Was VERY satisfied with his identity. I enjoyed seeing him fall for Nix and love her so recklessly. I think one of the reasons he was drawn to her so fiercely (outside of his plans) was that she was his complete opposite in so many ways with his secret life but yet so much the same. She was unapologetically herself, wild and fierce and free, so brutally honest when he still had to live a lie. The Spy also learns who his real friends are and it was a joy to see this.
Nix: gosh I loved her!!! I adored the story of her birth and her namesake. Despite who her father was, seeing their relationship was still beautiful, although bittersweet knowing the reality of the man she cared so much for wasn’t entirely true. When her eyes are opened it was truly heart wrenching to watch. I loved that she threw herself into loving the spy and gave him everything of herself so freely.
The story: we get to see some amazing action and an unexpected (but epic!) reunion, love stories unfolding, mysteries revealed, and THAT EPILOGUE!!! The book would have been amazing even if it just consisted of the epilogue, it was THAT good!!!
We also got to see the rest of Dean’s redemption and little glimpses of him and Cat (the dance at Christmas was once again awesome!). He is still my favorite character so getting to see him continue to evolve was wonderful. By the end he had changed into the man he was always meant to be and it was so good I cried! The scene with him and Leo on the boat was the perfect example of his redemption coming full circle. His epilogue was my favorite of course :)
There was one thing I wasn’t hugely enthused about though and that was the lack of real groveling by the spy when the truth comes out to Nix. He really hurt her and in my opinion should have had to go through more to earn her forgiveness (although maybe I’m just comparing their situation to Dean’s from the bully bc his grovel was so satisfying; you really can’t top that!). He does save her life though and we get to see that he loves her so very fiercely so those make up for the lack of groveling.
Overall a splendid end to Kingmakers and we see once again that Sophie has the capacity to weave a tale in a way that draws us in and makes us really live it while we read. Well done!!
You will be so happy you made the decision to read this series (and if you’re just starting that means you get to read them all with no waiting in between, you lucky thing!). Although technically you could read this as a stand alone why would you want to?! You would miss the amazingness that is Kingmakers and the background clues and other love stories (especially Dean and Cat’s) that set up the Spy so perfectly so do yourself a solid and start from the beginning with the Heir (or if you want to really set yourself up before Kingmakers also read the first 4 of the Underworld before starting as you will see some of those characters again—it’s not 100% necessary bc they can all be standalones but it will make your reading experience that much richer). Happy reading!! :) ❤️
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”There are crossroads in life where you can either choose the cold truth you see in front of you,…
…or you can choose to chase the impossible dream.” Wow. Just, wow. Sophie not only gave us an exciting, heart wrenching, and passionate story with The Spy, but she wrapped up the Kingmaker’s series with a neat little bow. I definitely ended this one shedding some bittersweet tears, because yes I already miss the Kingmaker crew. Sophie does a great job closing out everyone’s story, while also giving our Spy and his heroine, Nix, one heck of a story. Here’s the thing about The Spy. The story in this book has been building since probably the first book and we just didn’t know it yet. In The Bully we get The Spy’s POV as a third POV, so we are teased and teased, and now FINALLY we get to know what the heck was going on! So many ah-ha moments in this book. I will warn, that the love story between the Spy and Nix definitely takes a bit of back seat to what the Spy’s overall mission is and all that ensues because of that mission. There’s so much action and excitement and I loved it. I can’t say TOO much about what all goes down because it will spoil it for the reader, but what we are given is what makes this story a 5 star read for me. This book was just entertaining from start to finish and when I was done I still wanted more, because it was that good. I DO however wish we could have gotten just a DASH more of the Spy and Nix. What we did get is AMAZING though, and I almost feel like a jerk for begging for more, but yeah. I fully recognize that this was probably an incredibly difficult book to write because it truly provides us with so many things: a new and unexpected (for the characters) love story, closure for a big group of well loved characters AND side characters, the finale to a four book series, AND so many questions are answered that have been building about the Spy’s story since the very first book. So even though I’m mentioning that I wanted more SpyNix content, I’m also saying that the story stands without it as a 5, because Sophie totally put in the work to make this one amazing. This book just contains SO much, and it was incredibly entertaining. I loved this series and while I’m sad that it’s over, I absolutely CAN NOT wait to see what Sophie gives us next. For now I’ll be reading her back catalog, starting with Ivan 😚🎶
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