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The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

11 reviews

torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • 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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mjeanette_'s review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

- overall a fun read!
- plot points all felt fleshed out, no lingering mysteries at the end
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nash and libby together <3

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kmsander4's review against another edition

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adventurous 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? It's complicated

3.75

A solid conclusion to a fun YA trilogy, filled with mystery, puzzles, and secrets. If you want a book where you feel like you're playing along, this series may fit the bill.

While the stakes are massive for Avery and the Hawthornes, in terms of most thriller and mystery reads, they feel rather tame. You aren't really expecting much death and destruction, even if the villains have movie supervillain money. If you're expecting a lot of darkness (because when you're talking about billions and billions of dollars, dark seems fitting), that's not what you'll find in these pages.

It skates around the edges of true depth, darkness, and evil, and while it still makes for an entertaining read, I think those tweaks could have tipped it to a whole new level.

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holliesatchell's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense 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

3.5


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dxxxni's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5


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neverlandpages4's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0



• After a YEAR and 5 months, I’ve finally finished the inheritance games series. Well, I guess not because there’s a fourth book coming but it was supposed to be a trilogy so I’m considering it done. Also the fact that I waited months to read this just to binge it in a day at the end made me furious at myself 😭

• I read the first two books in January of 2022. I absolutely loved them but by the time this came out, I’d completely forgotten everything and kept putting it off. I was finally over it & watched a recap of the first two on YouTube so I can read this.

• Right away, I was really bored. There didn’t seem to be much happening in the mystery aspect. A lot of it was focused on the love triangle and teenage drama that wasn’t even interesting. I thought I wouldn’t be able to put this down but I was dying for it to be over.

• Pretty much every review I’ve ever seen of this has been criticizing who Avery ends up with but to be honest, I couldn’t care less because she didn’t have chemistry with either of them & she  continued to make the dumbest decisions and then proceeded to act surprised when she was in danger.

• There were also a ton of time jumps. Every chapter would skip weeks to months and I just felt disoriented reading this.

• As with the first two books, I really disliked Max. The dialogue itself & the other characters were childish enough without her addition and I was cringing every time she talked. I also didn’t like the “trendy” references. It was clear that the targeted audience for this book was Tik tok, as it says on the cover. 

• The ending was so predictable and I just felt like I wasted my time reading about a bunch of clueless characters that can’t see what’s right in front of them.

• I think it’s safe to say I won’t be reading the fourth book. There’s another series by this author that I’m interested in reading though and I’ve heard good things about it



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hannibanani29's review against another edition

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

3.5


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maim_mona's review against another edition

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

4.0

Phew! I dunno i wish i would be happier that it's over. There was too little Grayson or Jameson and i get it the story is about Avery, i just wished the string character development would carry through you know? For some reason this book felt more choppy than the other two. A really good mystery no doubt with a nail biting finish, this book focuses finally on the puzzles and riddles and kudos to the author for spanning and planning them so well, i was hooked. However despite the puzzles this is somehow my least favourite if the 3 the ending was the most logical well thought out ending but just not executed in a way that felt natural. I felt that way about
Jameson and Avery getting together as well how did their relationship feel more natural earlier than it did in this book?
There was so much pining for Grayson and while the author explains that she goes for Jameson beacusw she related to him he has the hunger she does and he makes her happy blah blah, i couldn't justify it, it seemed too much like a teenage going and two people trying too hard to stay together and graysons just in the mix??? I genuinely didn't feel the tension was resolved and was actually impressed by jamesons character development and the linws he has in this book. At least someone pointed out the obvious
loved how Alicia and Oren are brought to the forefront along with Nan and everything is tied in wonderfully! A well thought out end just wished it was smoother in execution. 

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amberlfaris's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

4.25


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ainnur_matzrol97's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0


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