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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

18 reviews

ttumbletree's review

adventurous funny inspiring mysterious fast-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

I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did. I thought it’d be predictable and not really my style. But despite my expectations, the book had me hooked within a couple of pages. I loved guessing along with the characters about what would happen and how they would solve each mystery. 
What I do have to say though, is that the book sometimes feels like a teen drama show. This is not a bad thing (one look at my old tumblr reveals how much I obsessed over teen drama shows, so yeah, definitely not a bad thing) but I still wanted to point it out. 
The only reason I didn’t give the book five stars is the fact that I don’t really vibe with love triangles. So far it wasn’t even all that bad, but love triangles just always leave a bad taste in my mouth. But oh well, I’ll see what happens in the next book. 
See, that’s another positive thing about the book, I didn’t wait a single second after finishing the book, before I ordered the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Fire/Fire injury

keats_the_listener's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I honestly was hoping more for this book as it was recommended by someone who recommended it in the same conversation as A discussion of Knives Out.  The book is just a series of toxic conversations and relationships.  I just didn’t get the appeal 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Child death, and Classism

pinkleum's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

the romance is weirding me out why is she being like toxic Emily and wanting to date them both. stop it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying and Car accident

juliacarp's review

adventurous emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

I liked this book. But it just didn’t wow me in a way that I wanted it to. I am probably going to read the rest of them because I liked the mystery scavenger hunt aspect of it, but I felt like everything was too connected. Like almost no struggle. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Death of parent and Bullying

maggieed's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Gun violence, and Stalking

Minor: Death of parent

michellemaas's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

I really liked this book. I was a little apprehensive about reading it since I'm more of a fantasy girl than a mystery girl, but after BookTok (don't judge) kept recommending it I had to try it and I was pleasantly surprised. 

I'm going to start by saying that there are so many plots twists that you probably won't see them all coming (taking this from a girl who predicts the plot twists between 50%-75% of the time) which is always a good start in a mystery book. Furthermore, it is face-paced and the characters are very endearing. Like a said, this not being my usual genre can either mean that my standards are pretty high or ridiculously low, but those are the main things I look for in these types of book and not only were they there but I was also thoroughly entertained for the whole read.

There's not really much else to say without spoiling it (and a mystery book is one genre you really shouldn't spoil) other than that it's a good book and I think you'd enjoy it immensely if you gave it a try.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

laurenfro22's review against another edition

dark 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? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

lorinew1's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Death, Gun violence, Murder, and Toxic relationship