Prince and Pawn

This one is definitely my favorite out of the series so far! Absolutely love the dynamic for this one; royalty/bastard just hits so well when an author does it right! I also really enjoyed exploring Corin's family dynamic in this one, which is similar to what we did with Whisper in the first book but it went even deeper for the plot on this one and I thought it was fascinating.

I ADORED Corin and Audric together. Yes it might be my cliche fondness for tall/small but they just had such good chemistry together even when they were just strangers. They had me kicking my feet and squealing multiple times and I'm not afraid to admit it. Audric was just so gentle with him and it was nice to see a protagonist like Corin just get to be...soft, I suppose? He still stood up for himself and fought when he needed to but he didn't have to be some hardened badass as has been popular for most fantasy books nowadays and I enjoyed that. We got a little bit of that dynamic with Bellamy in the last book as well but I felt like it got some real time and attention in this book.

I'm a bit nervous continuing with the series now that all of the brothers are paired up and we're going to be moving on to new people, but this world is interesting enough that I want to give it a shot!

C.A.P.E Rating:Characters - 4/5
Atmosphere - 4/5
Plot - 4/5
Enjoyment - 5/5