Pride
Nikki J Summers Read 2/20/2025-2/21/2025
Summers has delivered what I will venture to say is her best work to date in her adaptation of Pride – one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
This is my best piece of advice for readers – if you typically do not read the Forward, Prologue and/or Epilogue start. I tend to find the most fascinating tidbits that you would totally miss out on by skipping these. It amazed me to find out recently in quite a few FB groups that a lot of people completely skip these!
Summers snagged me from her quote in the Forward:
“Never underestimate the power of your words. They can inspire. They can destroy. Choose them wisely.”
How much more accurate of a statement could be made? This should resonate deeply with everyone who reads it – I mean who hasn’t been hurt by words? Authors face criticism daily by readers, employees by employers, students by teachers and vice versa, etc. So be kind, remember just because something doesn’t resonate inside of you doesn’t mean it doesn’t in someone else. If we were all the same and all felt the same the world would be extremely boring.
Moving on……
While the Forward snagged me, the Prologue truly hooked me and reeled me in with one sentence from the second full paragraph:
“My mind was a warped maze of nightmares and terror that I reveled in.”
I knew, from that one sentence, I was in for a ride with the reading of Pride. Summers creates an intricate and psychologically thrilling love story that is intriguing, horrific, deceitful, manipulative, full of mental strife and of course, murder. You have complex and rich character development from the start with the introduction of the unnamed killer in the Prologue (who won’t take long for you to meet), the relatable and beautiful Emma (FMC), to the enigmatic and sexy Alex (MMC). Supporting characters lack no dedication to development either! Your story line is extremely well developed with smooth transitioning from scene to scene leaving no grey areas to question.
Finally, I cannot leave out the plot twists. I cannot count how many times I was shaking my kindle with frustration because I was POSITIVE that I knew who or what was happening and then boom, twist and turns showed me who was boss – it wasn’t me just for the record. By the end of the story I was completely flabbergasted with the final plot twist only to get slapped upside the head again with the Epilogue saying “hey bish, I ain’t done here.”
So buckle up and get ready for a helluva ride with this one. I am truly curious to see how Summers follows up to this one and if she brings a sequel to Pride or not (or maybe the other books in the series of the Seven Deadly Sins with the collaboration of authors wraps it up – at this point I don’t dare to venture a guess because as with everything else I thought I knew, I would be wrong.)
Thank you to Nikki J Summers and Candi Kane PR for allowing me to ARC for them. As always, all opinions and reviews are of my own volition. I have not been promised any compensation by the author, present or future, for my review.
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