Book 46/30.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was the first of four books I read on my Hot Girl Summer 🤩🥳💃🌞🏖️🍹🌊😎 and it was the perfect fast-paced, entertaining escape to kick off my 11-night solo vacation at the Coast (five nights in Malindi, two in Mombasa and four in Diani).
The Inheritance Games is centered around high schooler Avery Grambs. Avery 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.
This was as much fun to read as they synopsis makes it out to be (though I was not a fan of the love triangle between Avery and two of the Hawthorne brothers 🥴) and by the end of the novel I was ready AF‼ for book two in the trilogy 🤩
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1 star – did not like it
2 stars – it was okay
3 stars – liked it
4 stars – really liked it
5 stars – it was amazing
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