The Inheritance Game
AUTHOR: Jennifer Lynn BarnesSERIES: The Inheritance Games
PAGES: 376 Pages
PUBLISHER: Little Brown Books for Young Adult
RELEASE DATE: September 1st,2020
A Cinderella story with deadly stakes and thrilling twists.
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Starting off this book is extremely fast-moving. Which is by no means a bad thing. I absolutely loved it in fact. Every single page was a page-turner for me. Something constantly happened and I could literally not put this book down. I was absolutely depressed when I had to put the book down this morning with only 50 pages left because I had to go to work. IT WAS JUST THAT GOOD!
RELEASE DATE: September 1st,2020
SUMMARY:
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Can I just say WOW? This book was absolutely one for the books. No pun intended. This was the perfect escapism I was looking for after the last book I read which was a contemporary romance. I love books like this one where you don't really quite know what to expect until it smacks you in the face.
The Inheritance Games centers around Avery Grambs. From a surface level, Avery is just a normal teenage girl that has had her fair share of hard times in life. Avery lost her mom due to an unknown illness that is never discussed and her dad is a deadbeat. However, that doesn't stop Avery from working hard and being caring and compassionate to those around her -- her half-sister Libby and Henry the local homeless man Avery plays chess in the park. Avery is just trying to make ends meet until one day she is sucked into the elite world of the Hawthorne family. Suddenly, Avery is on a plane to Texas to hear the will for a man she never even knew. Avery's head hasn't stopped spinning when it is announced she is the sole heir of Tobias Hawthorne. However, there's a catch. She must stay in the Hawthorne House for one year before she is able to access the trust. Sounds easy enough right? But there are four grandsons and two angry daughters who were just passed up for this enormous fortune. Will she make it out alive or will one of them kill her before the year is up?
Starting off this book is extremely fast-moving. Which is by no means a bad thing. I absolutely loved it in fact. Every single page was a page-turner for me. Something constantly happened and I could literally not put this book down. I was absolutely depressed when I had to put the book down this morning with only 50 pages left because I had to go to work. IT WAS JUST THAT GOOD!
I'm going to be 100% honest with you, I suddenly wish I had tabbed books because there were just so many incredible funny and cute moments that I really would have liked to have quoted in my review to give you a taste of the fun and playful manner that Jennifer Barnes writes in. This book is definitely PG and overall all about the mystery, BUT I do love what's brewing between Jameson and Grayson. It's a possible love triangle, but nothing is defined just yet in the first book. With that being said I am super curious about how that's going to develop and play out in the second novel!
Overall, this is by far one of my favorite reads of this year. It was mysterious, suspenseful, and even the end leaves off with a cliffhanger. It was for sure a foreseeable cliffhanger from the beginning, BUT unfortunately, we will have to wait to find out how things play out in the second one.
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