The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Series: The Inheritance Games
Published by: Little Brown Books for Young Readers on September 1st, 2020
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
To be completely honest, I picked up the book at the library because the cover caught my eye. Actually, I end up picking and reading most books because the covers are pretty. Sue me. But this book actually turned out to be good so I don't regret picking it up. The story kinda had like a 1 in a million-lifetime chance that like only you can dream of happening to a girl named Avery Grambs, and by a 1 in a million chance, I mean she magically inherited BILLONS from some random billionaire dude that she's never heard about. Basically, never gonna happen.
Though the book's storyline was about a fantasy thing, it did involve a mystery which caught my attention. The plot of the story was kinda like, random rich billionaire dies and leaves an entire inheritance to a girl his family has never met but she has to stay at the creepy old mansion thingy and use her big brain to solve these "clues". Honestly, though, I think I just summed up the entire book for you. Oops.
Despite the plot, I did enjoy the little mystery chase and uh some other things. The cliffhanger actually interested me to read the next book but unfortunately, that doesn't come out yet till next year. I would actually recommend this book to mystery fans as well as people who enjoy a fantasy-like dream that has a slim chance of ever happening in real life. One warning though, it's not you who might go mad, but the mansion's playing tricks on you.
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