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The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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savheath's review

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adventurous dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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oddduck's review

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4.5

Another very fast read, and it was very fun getting to see more about the Hawthorne brothers. With every book that has a split pov, I tend to reach a point where I strongly favor one character over the other and it's a slog to get through the one I care less about, but both Grayson and Jameson's stories kept me riveted the entire time. The only thing I took a half star off for is because, while I trust Jennifer Lynn Barnes, I do feel

that having another character who's been presumed dead for years not actually be dead is pushing it.

I trust that this will be resolved in a satisfactory way in the next book, but still.

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itstruly_flower's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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marippe's review against another edition

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3.5

A book titled “Brothers Hawthorne” yet Xander and Nash remain side characters 😭

I enjoyed the puzzles, they were fun to go through, but they didn’t really hit as hard as the other books.
Not too much of a fan of the pov switch.
At the beginning I was really more interested in Jameson’s story, but towards the end I was more interested in Grayson’s and seeing him bond with Gigi. I felt like Grayson’s arc was more satisfying.

Jameson and Avery’s relationship was cool to check up on. I was always a fan of Jameson getting with Avery, but I wasn’t too much of a fan of reading their relationship from Jameson’s pov, it didn’t feel too romantic - especially contrasting it with Grayson who seemingly speaks more emotionally about Avery in his pov than Jameson. Kinda strange.

I never will care about Eve and her struggles, nor will I care for Grayson x Eve, it makes me feel sick as hell

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It was fun to see all these charas again tho! Excited for the next book, the premise of that seems fun.

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bujo_bellel's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I didn't really enjoy this book because the povs kept changing and it was really disorienting and frustrating when we finally get to something interesting in one pov then it's just abruptly changed to the other pov like there were plenty of parts where the pov could have been changed when there wasn't any new discovery where the pov could have been changed but that did not happen at all. Another thing is (spoiler for the earlier books in the series) I didn't really like being in Jameson's pov and seeing what he thinks about Avery and how they are together, idk if it's because I'm on Team Grayson, but like how they are together kind of annoyed me, like it feels like something isn't right. (spoiler over) Anyway I think like after the 60% mark it started getting interesting and got my interest but before that I wasn't hooked and kept putting the book down to read other books. The mystery of the safe box at the bank plot line was quite intriguing and more interesting than The Devil's Mercy plot line so I was definitely more interested and got more frustrated when the parts of the pov got cut off and switches over to the other pov. I liked seeing Grayson's family and getting to know his sisters and his mother and basically the history behind them and I like their characters and am now interested to see what Grayson does about the ending in the next book. About Jameson's family I would say his uncle is interesting but we didn't get much about their history and all that and I'm assuming we get to learn more about them in the next book.

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avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

The first The Inheritance Games full-length book strictly from the Hawthorne brothers' POV.
I know this is probably the publisher's fault, not the authors, but I hated that it was two different stories going on at once and switching back and forth. This book really should have been two separate books! The constantly switching POVs took me out of the story. I would have preferred it as book 1 and book 2, one with Jameson's story and one with Grayson's. Plus, they didn't even have different narrators for each brother!
I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as the others. I don't know if that's because this is the first one I listened to on audio, or if it's because of the problem of it being too long and the POV switching all the time.
Overall it was okay to good, but nowhere near great. It was also a bit predictable.

Narrator Rating: 3 stars
The narrator was good at doing different voices. But not great at changing tone for mood shifts. And didn't use much emotion in the reading.

Extra ratings: Fluff - 3/5 Heartfelt- 2/5 Helpful -NA Horror -NA Inspiration -NA Love aka Romance- 2.5/5 Mystery -2/5 Predictability -3.75/5 Spice-0.5/5 Suspense - NA Tear- 2/5 Thrill - 1.5/5 Humor-2.5/5

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