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A review by tinysierra
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
adventurous
lighthearted
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Diverse cast of characters? No
4.0
3.75*
I don’t know why the marketing and cover make it seem more like a Hunger Games type situation, but this is more of a scavenger hunt deal. I vibed with it, I just don’t want anyone to go into it expecting something different.
-This was fun and fast paced!
-unnecessary love triangle… I honestly wouldn’t take this book too seriously in that area though. Like it’s good because the plot is fun and all but there’s this like thing with jealous guys trying to show dominance or whatever which is very juvenile. Takes me back to early YA books.
-Bi side character, wlw relationship mentioned briefly. There are people of color, but they’re mostly side characters from what I remember
-there a point where a character talks about how charities are better than helping out individual people and yada yada yada. He’s a white cishet man and he grew up rich. Of course he thinks that way. This is just a person opinion of mine so you can take it with a grain of salt, but from what I’ve heard from marginalized people, donating to individuals *IS* better than donating to large charity groups. But I guess I should be happy they donated the fictional money in the first place lol
CW:
-there is a toxic relationship with mental and physical abuse
-also attempted murder twice first with a gun, second with an attempted car crash
-there’s a character with a terminal illness and it shows how another character watched her die, and a few of the characters blame themselves for her death.
I don’t know why the marketing and cover make it seem more like a Hunger Games type situation, but this is more of a scavenger hunt deal. I vibed with it, I just don’t want anyone to go into it expecting something different.
-This was fun and fast paced!
-unnecessary love triangle… I honestly wouldn’t take this book too seriously in that area though. Like it’s good because the plot is fun and all but there’s this like thing with jealous guys trying to show dominance or whatever which is very juvenile. Takes me back to early YA books.
-Bi side character, wlw relationship mentioned briefly. There are people of color, but they’re mostly side characters from what I remember
-there a point where a character talks about how charities are better than helping out individual people and yada yada yada. He’s a white cishet man and he grew up rich. Of course he thinks that way. This is just a person opinion of mine so you can take it with a grain of salt, but from what I’ve heard from marginalized people, donating to individuals *IS* better than donating to large charity groups. But I guess I should be happy they donated the fictional money in the first place lol
CW:
-there is a toxic relationship with mental and physical abuse
-also attempted murder twice
-there’s a character with a terminal illness and it shows how
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, and Terminal illness