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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

22 reviews

matheo's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Blood, Child death, Classism, Gaslighting, Stalking, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Car accident and Lesbophobia

Minor: Infertility

morganperks's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Bullying, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Cancer, Racism, and Incest

merah's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious relaxing tense fast-paced

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

5.0

One of the BEST books I've read in a while. 
The characters are so loveable. 
A thrilling story with some very unexpected twists. 
And: short chapters!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Gun violence, Classism, Death of parent, Violence, Murder, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Medical content, Biphobia, Terminal illness, Injury/Injury detail, Child death, Violence, Lesbophobia, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Car accident, Blood, and Alcohol

karapillar's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Oh my god. Wow. Wow wow wow! I regret not reading this book sooner. It is so. Stinking. Good. I like to think I’m pretty good at predicting endings, but this one through me for a loop! I had nooooo idea what was going to happen throughout the entire book. Twists, mysteries, and suspense kept  me turning up until literally the very last page. I’m obsessed. I’m starting book two immediately. Good bye, sleep!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Classism, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Stalking, Infidelity, Murder, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child death, Chronic illness, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

jfield351's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Wow! This was a really good book! It is the most fast paced books I have ever read, the author Jennifer Lynn Barnes does not waste words and cuts right to the chase. I also loved the short chapters (around 3 pages long) as they allowed me to read how much i wanted to read. It was gripping. And the idea of the book - amazing. The whole time I was dying to know the twist.

I did guess that the boys’ middle names’ were places, but that is the only thing i guessed

. It was very family friendly. I really loved and appreciated how the ‘clues’ in this book were not far fetched, it always made sense that the participants would discover and interpret them.

The ending was interesting, at first I was like okay that’s cool, whatever. Then the last page before the epilogue had me shook. That is a good twist. I wish it could have ended with an in-depth letter from Mr Hawthorne but there is another book so i’ll just have to read that! I’m still a bit intrigued / confused by the Drake thing so the next book will hopefully clarify a bit more

. Very easy to read and very clever. Gave me ‘Rebecca’ by Daphne Du Maurier vibes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Gun violence, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, and Car accident

Minor: Cursing, Blood, Infidelity, Sexual content, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cancer, Abandonment, and Murder

hannibanani29's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Alcohol, Child death, Classism, Death, Domestic abuse, and Terminal illness

Minor: Violence, Dementia, Incest, Pregnancy, Infertility, Racism, Biphobia, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Infidelity, and Injury/Injury detail

brookey8888's review against another edition

adventurous funny mysterious fast-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

5.0

This was A really fun time. It was just so entertaining and fun. There were some plot twist that I had me kind of shocked. I really liked all the characters. I also like the love triangle and I’m not sure who I like the best so that’s interesting. I really want to read the second one now.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Stalking, Toxic relationship, and Violence

econcomics's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-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? It's complicated

4.25

 I hadn't read a fictional book by choice since my freshman year of high school. I'm 23! When I saw a Tik Tok about this book, I was like "wait... okay..." and decided to get it. It was so good. It got me back into fictional books, something I genuinely never saw myself doing. 

 

One thing I do want to add/ warn about is how the main characters are all teens, and between this book and the second one there is quite a bit of r*mance/k*ssing.... Since I am 23, that whole concept really makes me really uncomfortable and I always have to skim through these parts. I'm not sure if this is a common viewpoint to have, but I wanted to give that warning anyway!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Stalking, Infidelity, and Gun violence

eowyn_zoe's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Infidelity, and Death

Minor: Cursing, Violence, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

beautifulpaxielreads's review

challenging tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death of parent, Death, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Violence, and Car accident

dangerous driving, attempted murder, some of the behaviour could be construed as child abuse, emotional manipulation