The Spy, on the other hand, has been stuck performing in a role that he feels is the opposite of his personality–understated, modest, pacifist, even somewhat meek. She’s the daughter of a celebrated athlete who performed dazzling feats of strength and endurance, and inherited her mother’s love of movement, outdoors, and pushing her body to the limit. She’s been relatively sheltered, and doesn’t perform as overly feminine, but has zero hangups about her body and is open and confident about expressing her admiration and appreciation for the Spy. Nix is the most interesting of the kingmakers heroines. In the end, however, he has to choose his family–which means betraying the woman he’s fallen in love with. Over time, as they spend more time together, The Spy realizes that the daughter is nothing like the father. She’s taken under the wing of Sabrina Gallo, cousin of Leo ( The Heir), which helps, but she can still tell that The Spy hates her–even as he is drawn to her. Everyone shuns her for her father’s horrifically unethical, murderous practices, which she has been unaware of due to her sheltered upbringing.
The red-headed Nix is guileless, blunt, athletic–and an immediate outcast at Kingmakers.
“You look as if the woods came alive.” Sophie LARK, THE SPY “You look as if autumn was a person,” he says, taking one wild red curl between his thumb and index finger. When Nix, Marko’s daughter, comes to Kingmakers, the Spy receives another assignment: he is ordered to use his proximity to Nix to manipulate her and gain her trust. Meanwhile, the Malina head, Marko Moroz, is extorting the Spy’s family for everything they are worth. The Spy has come to Kingmakers under an assumed identity on a secret mission that involves preventing the death of a loved one, who has been kidnapped by the head of the Malina, the Ukrainian mafia, and is being held in an undisclosed location. We are introduced to the Spy in The Bully, Dean and Cat’s book, the third in the series. I include a summary of the first three books in this review (no major spoilers). The Kingmakers books each feature a different couple, along with a third point of view, but there is an overarching story arc, so the books should be read in order to get the full picture. The SPY is the fourth and concluding book in Sophie Lark’s Kingmakers series, which is a second generation series connected to her Brutal Birthright series.
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