Title: The Inheritance Games
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Publisher: Penguin
Book Review
Avery Grambs’ life is a mix of ups and downs. After the death of her mother, she moved in with her half-sister Libby. It wasn’t perfect but Avery isn’t the kind of girl that will complain all the time. She finds her routine and tries to survive until she will be able to get out from there. Her life goes on until the Hawthorne family appears in her life. A billionaire Tobias Hawthorne included her in his will. The weirdest part is that she didn’t even know him before he passed away. However, the biggest surprise is that he left her his entire fortune. She can keep it under one rule; she needs to move into the Hawthorne manor and live there for a year. It’s not as easy because the house is occupied by Tobias Hawthorne’s daughters and grandsons.
From the time she moves in, she becomes a public person followed by media, which also brings danger to her life. She cannot live like this without knowing why a stranger leaves her everything instead of leaving it to his family. She decides to investigate and tries to find the missing puzzle.
Avery is a hard-skinned girl, who’s hard to break. She’s also very humble, which in my opinion is also why she was chosen by Hawthorne, but I see that this book is more complex than that. Moreover, she was always good at games. She saw the answers that other people don’t notice. When she moves into Hawthorne’s house she immediately starts digging. She wants to know why she was chosen. Why he didn’t leave the money to his family as everyone was expecting. Thankfully she wasn’t the only one who wanted to find the answers.
Hawthorne boys cannot be trusted. Everyone repeats it throughout the book. However, it’s so easy to fall in love with each of them. Their personalities are completely different but at the same time in the same level attractive. They’re not bad people. They are lost and Avery happens to be their way out. A person who they can focus on. I don’t have a favorite in this group. They are all special in their own way. However, I like Xander and Grayson slightly more than Nash and Jameson. Grayson is very secretive, however; this mystery makes you like him even more. Besides he has his ways with words. He can be a jerk but on the other side, he’s the cutest guy in this book. Xander is a Brainiac. He’s the smartest in the group and the most underestimated. He covers a feeling of being left out with confidence, which I think is just an act.
This book is a rollercoaster. There isn’t a moment when you think that the book is boring. Something happens all the time but at the same time, it isn’t overdone. Everyone in the house is a suspect and a threat so you don’t know from which side comes a danger. I tried to guess all the way through the book why Avery was chosen, and I was partly correct. Firstly, when the mystery was solved, I was mad because it wasn’t special. I felt that I was waiting for something big, but it turned out to be nothing special. I even wanted to lower the rate because I was so disappointed. However, the last four pages hit me, and I went back to loving this book! I cannot wait to read a sequel to this book! The ending was everything I wanted it to be.
Rate: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I would like to thank TheWriteReads for including me in this tour! I am so grateful for being able to read this book and share my love and thoughts it with you all! This book deserves to be known and loved! I will definitely buy a copy for myself this month so I can experience this story once again.
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