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The Inheritance Games

 Hello readers! I have not posted in a while as you are all aware. Junior year is no joke. Between making time to read or making to post, I have chosen reading for the past month. I have not stopped reading/listening to audiobooks but I have not written a review in quite a while. I'm back!

SUMMARY

"Part The Westing Game, part We Were Liars, completely entertaining." -- Kirkus Reviews

Avery lives out of her car. She is very close to her sister and is a top student, but has a strange life to an outsider looking in. With her mother dead and her father missing, Avery lives a complicated and hard, but routine life. One day Avery is barely making ends meet, the next she is on a plane to the Hawthorne House, the mansion and estate of Tobias Hawthorne the Texas billionaire. One day Avery doesn't have a house, the next she is the beneficiary of the late Tobias Hawthorne's fortune. The list of questions/'catches' is long. (1) Avery doesn't know and has never known a Tobias Hawthorne in her life. (2) Hawthorne's extended family is vast and each member was close to the late billionaire. Why didn't he leave his fortune to them? (3) Tobias Hawthorne was a trickster and a master of games and manipulation. 

Let the games begin.

REVIEW

I am ordering the next book in this series immediately. Amazon Prime is not fast enough. This book is filled with short, snappy chapters, a little romance, and a Knives-Out-esque family vs 'outsider who is poor' struggle. Good, good, great! This book is perfect for upcoming Halloween - definite spooky vibes. Definitely pick Jennifer Lynn Barnes' book up! Review on the sequel coming soon.

Happy Reading!

Age Range: 13/14+
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Tags: mystery, YA mystery, rags to riches, Halloween, fall vibes, Jennifer Lynn Barnes

*TW: familial tension, death/grief, abusive relationship (alluded to), series*
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