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A review by legalplanner
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-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
I gave this a 3.5 because it didn't truly wrap anything up at the end, it set up book #2 which is frustrating for me. If things had been wrapped up this would have been a 4 star read for me.
Avery is your normal 16 year old high school student who just wants a chance at college and a stable career. She has a plan to make that happen, until she is set to inherit Tobias Hawthorne's entire fortune. Yet, she has never met the man. Upon moving into the house she meets the grandsons that she beat for the inheritance and tries to survive riddles, puzzles, and dysfunctional family dynamics all in the name of a stable future.
The chapters were short and reminded me a bit of reading the online published serials that were only about 1000 words per release. However the short chapters kept you going because you wanted to know what happened next. I was seriously frustrated with the lack of diving deeper into the personalities of the Hawthorne grandsons. Avery was literally running to solve these puzzles with the grandsons but you got more of a surface level delve into who they were. I wanted to understand them more but even the deeper you got into their personalities at the end didn't feel like a true look at them.
The games that Tobias made them play leading up to the end was twisty and I had thoughts and opinions throughout the entire book and honestly enjoyed the thrill of the novel. Again, if I had a bit more wrapped up at the end for me and the characters were a bit more fleshed out I would have given this a 4/5.
Avery is your normal 16 year old high school student who just wants a chance at college and a stable career. She has a plan to make that happen, until she is set to inherit Tobias Hawthorne's entire fortune. Yet, she has never met the man. Upon moving into the house she meets the grandsons that she beat for the inheritance and tries to survive riddles, puzzles, and dysfunctional family dynamics all in the name of a stable future.
The chapters were short and reminded me a bit of reading the online published serials that were only about 1000 words per release. However the short chapters kept you going because you wanted to know what happened next. I was seriously frustrated with the lack of diving deeper into the personalities of the Hawthorne grandsons. Avery was literally running to solve these puzzles with the grandsons but you got more of a surface level delve into who they were. I wanted to understand them more but even the deeper you got into their personalities at the end didn't feel like a true look at them.
The games that Tobias made them play leading up to the end was twisty and I had thoughts and opinions throughout the entire book and honestly enjoyed the thrill of the novel. Again, if I had a bit more wrapped up at the end for me and the characters were a bit more fleshed out I would have given this a 4/5.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Gun violence and Emotional abuse