Review: Royal Pawn

Royal Pawn by K.N. Banet
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

How can this be the sixth book already? I had totally forgotten that I had pre-ordered this book so when it dropped on my Kindle I was pleasantly surprised, but also struggled to remember what had happened previously. Luckily it all came flooding back very quickly.

Jacky Leon is a human turned werecat. She owns a dive bar in the middle of nowhere, much to the disgust of her adopted werecat family, all of whom are ancient and fabulously wealthy with mansions and palaces all over the world, Jacky could have all that too but she she just wants to be normal and guard her territory. Jacky has become involved with Heath Everson, former Alpha of the Dallas werewolf pack. Werewolves and werecats are enemies, they fought each other in the wars and Jacky and Heath's relationship is very much a secret. After a failed coup by his eldest son and closest advisers Heath abdicated as Alpha and came to live on Jacky's land with his adult son Landon and daughter Carey.

At the start of this series Jacky was called to Duty to protect Carey from the werewolves who wanted to kill her to weaken Heath's control over the Dallas pack, in keeping Carey safe Jacky inadvertently got mixed up with a fae called Brin and his human wife and sons. Brin gave her the gift of telepathic speech when in her werecat form, something normally only the werewolves can do, and even then only between themselves whereas Jacky can speak to anyone telepathically when she is in her moon-cursed form.

Now Brin has come to collect on the favour, by blackmailing Jacky and Heath to protect his human wife. It turns out that nondescript Brin was actually Brion, rightful King of the Sidhe, eldest child of Oberon and Titania who left his throne to live in disguise. Now through his gift to Jacky his existence has been uncovered and his younger brother, the current Fae King, is trying to kill him. Forced into the middle of a vicious Fae war Jacky and Heath are playing a dangerous game, forced to work alone in order to avoid embroiling all the magical species into the dispute. Can they keep Brin's wife safe?

This was just as fast-paced and twisty as all the previous books in this series, I read with my heart pounding. Can not WAIT for the next one. Also, it appears that there was a predecessor series involving a deadly assassin for the Tribunal - hold my beer!

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