Review: Oath Sworn

Oath Sworn by Kristen Banet
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jacky Leon is a werecat, turned only a decade ago after a terrible car accident she has claimed a tract of woodland a couple of hours outside Dallas Fort Worth where she owns and runs a small bar. Werecats are solitary creatures and in this reality only werewolves have 'come out' to the humans. Jacky has a difficult relationship with her 'sire' Hasan, who is believed to be the oldest living werecat and over two thousand years old. As a living legend Hasan carries a lot of baggage and so Jacky has never told anyone that he is her father.

Jacky gets dragged into the leadership battle for head of the Dallas Fort Worth werewolf pack when the Alpha's eleven year old human daughter claims Jacky's protection under the Duty she owes to the supernatural community under an ancient treaty which created peace between the species around 800 years ago. Under the Laws werecats are sworn to protect humans who claim protection, even if Jacky wasn't already primed to help a small scared young girl.

Chased from pillar to post by gangs of rebel werewolves, desperate to kidnap the Alpha's daughter (which goes against all supernatural rules of engagement), Jacky is in the fight for her very life. But what everyone seems to have forgotten is that werecats are more vicious and faster than werewolves, there's a reason why it takes a hunting pack of at least wolves to take down a werecat.

I liked this, it was a little predictable, I guessed at the individuals behind the coup quite quickly but I also read a lot of PNR/urban fantasy so I have seen lots of permutations of this type of story, but the story was fast moving and very easy to read. I will definitely read the next book in the series.

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