~ On The Fly by Nicky James ~

 

Author: Nicky James

Title: On The Fly

Series: Rail Riders 4

Pages: 308

Release date: 2022 March 14

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Rating: ★★★★☆

Blurb: 

When her core group of freight-hopping friends start settling down, Willow is left adrift and all alone to ride the rails.
She can’t quit like everyone else. For eight years she’s been on a quest for answers about her past, and LA is where she suspects she’ll find them.
With a serial killer still loose on the rails and no one else to ride with, Willow’s lifelong best friend, Billie, insists on coming along.
Riding with Billie is a dream come true. They know each other inside and out, and Billie’s presence in Willow’s life has always kept her grounded.
But Billie has always had strong feelings for Willow that go beyond friendship, and Willow has always insisted on keeping things the way they are.
Why mess with a good thing and risk losing the one person who keeps Willow grounded?
Can Billie prove to Willow that she will be there no matter what, that she will never let go no matter how bad things get?
As secrets from Willow’s past unfold, their relationship is tested and hard choices must be made, but sometimes the only way to move forward is to make a decision on the fly.

** On The Fly is a best friends to lovers, female/gender fluid romance. Billie uses the pronouns she/her and they/them interchangeably. It is the last book in the Rail Riders series and should be read in sequence for full enjoyment. **

My review: 

The fourth and the last book in the series. It was bittersweet because I didn't want to say goodbye to the gang, but after all everyone got their perfect HEA, so what more a reader could ask for? :)

Billie and Willow - best friends to FINALLY lovers. Loved their relationship and how in love they were. Willow's fear was real and it was well portrayed that she was afraid to BE IN LOVE with Billie. Their journey was really good and when they finally accepted what they wanted, just mhmmm!

This book isn't m/m, and it's a first for Nicky to write about f/gf (genderfluid) characters together, but I really, really enjoyed reading it. The sex scenes were hot too ;)

I know that every story is differently paced and not everyone needs 24/7 rail riding, but I feel that the first book has the most hopping in it and I just constantly miss those in every book. This time too. Billie and Willow were rail hopping too, but those weren't as exciting as before.

The created drama at the end was a bit too much for me and it was a slightly boring topic to be a main focus of Willow's 'background'.

Loved the epilogue, I love this gang so much.