Reviewed by Donna

TITLE: Outlaw

SERIES: Wolves of Royal Paynes #4

AUTHOR: Kiki Burrelli

PUBLISHER: Self Published

LENGTH: 282 Pages

RELEASE DATE: November 10, 2020

BLURB:

Diesel didn’t only lose his pack in the hellfire explosion that turned the people he loved into ash, he lost his future omega as well. The only human among them, Quinlan had joined their pack as a child and through the years Diesel was his constant companion, protector, and best friend. Because of the difference in their ages, Diesel insisted they waited until Quinlan was a little older, until the gap between their years didn’t matter quite so much before he claimed Quinlan truly.
He never got the chance.
Now, Diesel has watched his pack mates find their omegas knowing he’ll never have what his brothers have. He’ll never hold his omega, never kiss or tease him just to see the blush color his cheeks. He had his treasure, and failed to protect him. Quinlan was everything that was good in the world and trying to live without him is like trying to live without a heart. But Diesel is still an alpha, still partly responsible for the fragile—yet flourishing—pack that has assembled around them, despite the alpha team’s best efforts to cling to the past and care only about revenge.
When an old face becomes a new enemy, Diesel and his alpha team are once again racing to save everything they hold dear. Betrayed by someone they’d once called leader, the Royal Paynes pack has never been in more danger. Portal wants nephilim blood to open a gate to hell and there won’t be puppies and kittens waiting on the other side. Before the pack can figure out how to hold hell back, the alphas must deal with the traitor once and for all—and face the terrifying weapon he possesses. A weapon that has the power to change everything.
Good vs. evil. Heaven vs. hell. Diesel already failed to save his pack once, and now, he’s expected to save the world?

REVIEW:

Yes! This was the book that I was waiting for. Not gonna lie, I flipped straight to the end to ensure that Diesel ends up with the person I had my heart set on, cause if he didn’t then I don’t think I could have actually read the book. Throughout this whole series, Diesel has been the outsider, part of the pack, but mourning his dead omega mate, while everyone around him found someone to love. If anyone needed a happy ending it was Diesel, and thankfully that’s exactly what the author has delivered. A happy ending for Diesel, but more than that – a perfectly happy ending to the Wolves of Royal Paynes series.

What I love most about this series is the characters. The alphas aren’t all-knowing asshats – they make mistakes, they apologize when they’re wrong, and sometimes they need their omega mates to save their big tough asses. The omegas aren’t wilting damsels in distress – they fight just as aggressively as their alpha mates, they tell their alpha’s when they’re wrong, and at the same time they’re so goddamn loveable that I just can’t pick a favourite. Add to that a growing collection of human and shifter packmates, a gaggle of winged babies, some angelic parents, an army of bad guys, a traitorous friend who returned from the dead, a couple of demons for good/bad luck and one abundantly muscled canine…and this series is chock full of humour, love and more explosions than you can count.

I don’t want to say too much about this book in particular, as the blurb is careful to leave out the name of Diesel’s omega, but if you have read any of my reviews of the previous books in this series, then you know I recommend them unreservedly. This has been one of my favourite series of 2020.

The Wolves of Royal Paynes series is completed in four books, but it is linked to the already completed Wolves of Walker County series and will be linked to a series about some biker shifters that has yet to be written. The story arc of the Royal Paynes nephilim-omegas might end here, but I’m crossing my fingers that a certain demon brother will pop up in the next series. I feel like we aren’t done with him just yet.

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