Rating: 4.5⭐️
Well written but extremely frustrating, Echoed Defiance brings another facet of Jackie Leon’s former life into focus. In this case, her prior human history.
Banet’s characterizations are so compelling and excellent that the reader is often confused between thinking of them as real people rather than fictional beings. Jackie’s former family, especially her twin, which is a huge surprise, are incredibly irritating, entitled, and often ones we want gone.
Paranormals: 1 Humans: 0
And in a truly remarkable bit of plotting and long term series narrative flow, what we see occur here, the events , context, and conversations have enormous implications for Jackie later in the series.
Yes, I’m at book 11. It just gets better and better.
Each book, the events and minute details, no matter how subtle or seemingly random, are adding up to an overall complex rich and devious plot.
I’m so in love. This is an automatic reread.
If shifters, mythology, science, gods, compelling characters and long term planning with plots are your thing, grab the series up.
Funny, heartbreaking, and just glorious. Also violent and deadly. FYI.
So so highly recommended.
The Jacky Leon Series- not complete:
Oath Sworn #1
Family and Honor #2
Broken Loyalty #3
Echoed Defiance #4
Shades of Hate #5
Royal Pawn #6
Rogue Alpha #7
Bitter Discord #8
Secrets and Ruin #9
Scarred Resolve #10
War Games #11
Cruel Revenge #12
Volume One: Books 1-3
Related Series in the same universe:
The Kaliya Sahni Series
Bounty
Snared
Monsters
Reborn
Legends
Destiny
Volume One: Books 1-3
The Everly Abbott Series
Servant of the Blood
Blood of the Wicked
Tainted Blood
Tribunal Archives Stories – Jackie’s family’s stories
Ancient and Immortal (Call of Magic Anthology)
Hearts at War
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Blurb
My duty to my family is simple. Help maintain order and uphold the Law for my werecat father, Hasan, a member of the Tribunal.
But I’ve always had a defiant streak.
To do what’s right, I’m willing to throw the Law out the window and turn my back on everything I’ve been told. Everyone around me knows I’m willing to risk everything for what I believe in. All I can hope is that my beliefs and the Law don’t clash again.
Because I have another duty. A duty to blood. A duty to the bond between those who once shared a face and a life.
My name is Jacky Leon and my twin has found her way back into my life. My echo, strangely similar and yet different, Gwen is a piece of me that I tried to leave behind.
And it seems defiance runs in the family.
- Publication date: September 15, 2020
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- Book 4 of 12: Jacky Leon
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 