The Inheritance Games

This is a very gripping book - it will have you addicted, promising, just one more chapter before I turn off the light, this to me is the sign of a brilliant book. It's full of twists and turns and a surprising ending.
I loved that the main character was very likeable and the plot kept you on the edge of your seat.
I definitely look forward to reading more of Jennifer Lynn Barne's work.

Honestly loved this one. It has real pace and page turning quality.Read this in one sitting. Liked Avery’s storyline and how each of the four brothers were fleshed out. Enjoyed the mysteries set in the rambling big mansion house and can’t wait to read the next one. My first Jennifer Lynn Barnes book and it won’t be my last. Off to hunt down more.

I received a copy from Netgalley.

It’s been a long time since I’ve started a book and finished it in the same day. I’ve only rated three books five stars this year and this was one of them. I love rich people stories and even more ones about regular people who are thrown into that over the top glamorous world.

In this book teenager Avery, a studios, smart girl is just looking to finish high school and earn a college scholarship. She lives with her older sister Libby and Libby’s questionable asshole boyfriend Drake. While she adores her sister she hates the boyfriend who’s cruel and manipulative in that making you think everything wrong is your fault when it’s not way.

Then everything changes when Grayson Hawthorne shows up with a request for Avery and Libby to attend his grandfather’s will reading. His multi billionaire grandfather. Avery is dumbfounded. She’s never heard of the man. And yet finds out she’s been left his fortune. From sleeping in her car she’s suddenly the richest teenager in the world.

Much to the chagrin on the Hawthorne family, the four grandsons, their mother and her sister. Naturally they’re furious. Avery has to now figure out how this all happened, and no one in the Hawthorne family is happy she’s there. There’s a complex mystery to solve, clues are left for Avery and the boys.

This is one of those compulsive you have to know what’s going on mysteries. I can’t say much for character development, everything felt a little generic and seen a million times before in the family dynamic. I didn’t get much of a sense of personality from Avery other than resourceful, smart and determined. Though her reactions to the situations she found herself thrown into were very believable.

What drove this novel forward for me was the mystery. It’s impossible to recap without being spoilery, the plot is so twisty turny. It has a brilliant narrative that makes the reader keep guessing. While the characters aren’t very fleshed out, there was some delightful banter throughout, the relationships grew more complex throughout the characters. I didn’t guess who the baddie was and it’s one of those…why didn’t I see this coming from a mile away?!?!? reveals. The tension builds wonderfully throughout to the final climax…which was almost in a weird way a bit anticlimactic. It does however, leave on a cliffhanger. I need more.

Thank you to Penguin Random House Children’s UK.

I received an Advance Reader Copy from the publisher via NetGalley. This in no way impacted on my view.

As soon as I heard about this book, it was added to my wish list, my goodreads, and anywhere else I could think of. I was so desperate to get my hands on it, and when my request was denied on EW, I could've cried! Luckily, once it became available on NG to request, I was approved straight away, and once I finished my current read, I couldn't stop myself from diving right in. Avery Grambs is coming to terms with her mother's death, and living with her half sister, Libby. Both aren't that well off, and Avery often leaves to live in her car when Libby's creep of a boyfriend turns up, but she has a plan go get to university, study actuarial science and statistical risk assessment, and use her poker face to make her money. When she returns home one day to find a handsome guy, suited to boot, she is told she is named in the will of an eccentric billionaire, and soon finds herself on a private jet to Texas. Now, she thought that maybe she might get a couple of thousand dollars, but low and behold, she inherits everything, and there's nothing the Hawthorne's can do about it. Tobias Hawthorne was all about his puzzles and his secrets, and along with the four grandsons, Avery needs to find out just why she was picked by someone she didn't know to be heiress, and what role she has to play in the Hawthorne boy's futures.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes is just one of the best authors I have ever read. All of her books are perfect, and this one is no different. From the moment you pick up this book, you don't want to put it down for anything. Avery, as a character, was phenomenal, and we really felt all the emotional upheaval she went through in this book, from learning she had more money than she would ever know what to do with, to being shot at, to having conflicting feelings for the boys in the house, who might just be planning on killing her. She really had a tough time, and I just loved her! The perfect heroine for this book!

The plot and mystery was hands down out of this world. At times I thought I knew what was coming next, but the very next page made me second guess myself, and other than some really small plot points, I never would've worked it all out. Even down to the epilogue, we have questions that have been answers, or still need answering, and reading this book in July, knowing I'll have to wait months and months for book 2, is a killer! The romance is very much secondary in this book, but definitely a key player. I really love the chemistry between Avery and Jameson, and need to see more of them in the sequel, and see how they deal with the events of The Inheritance Games. Definitely one of my favourite books of 2020, and you all need to read this, ASAP!

I enjoyed this excellent YA novel very much. The storyline was exciting and kept me entertained all the way. Highly recommended!