Book 48/30.
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
The Inheritance Games trilogy started off really strong, hence I rated The Inheritance Games 4 stars. Unfortunately for me it got progressively worse with The Hawthorne Legacy being an average 3 star read and The Final Gambit being a flaccid 2 star read 🥴
Picking up where The Hawthorne Legacy left off, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do to inherit billions is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her. But as the clock ticks down to when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help – and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player.
The book’s synopsis sounds quite interesting but my issue with The Final Gambit is that the plot became sooo convoluted that I found it impossible to suspend disbelief for. Also, there was only so many times Jennifer Lynn Barnes could mention Jameson’s green eyes before I was fucking over it, and she crossed that threshold in the initial third of the book. The final act was the only redeeming aspect of the entire novel, and I quite enjoyed it (as well as the epilogue one year later), but by then it was too little too late.
** A guide to ratings **
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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