Picture this. You are a poor, parentless teenage girl living in Connecticut. One brisk fall, you inherit billions of dollars from a total and complete stranger. What would you do? How would you react? Well, in Jennifer Lynn Barne’s The Inheritance Games, Avery Grambs is put in this exact situation. Avery is a seventeen-year-old girl, just trying to make it through high school. Her mom died of cancer, and her father is not involved in her life. Her only known family is her older half-sister Libby with whom she shares a father. Avery and Libby live together, barely surviving off of tips. That is until Avery is summoned to a will reading of the ninth richest man in the United States, and the richest man in Texas named Tobias Hawthorne. The catch is, Avery has no known correlation with Tobias. After finding out how much she inherited, she becomes a target to Tobias Hawthorne's 4 grandsons who, before Avery came along, were convinced that they would be the heirs to the fortune. Not only, the grandsons are after Avery, but anyone she has ever met is now after her money. Through a series of riddles, puzzles, and games, Avery is determined to decipher why she, and not Tobias Hawthorne's four grandsons, inherited the majority of his fortune. I very much enjoyed reading this book. It had many plot twists and surprising details. I love mystery books and I have never read one like this before. Most mystery books are set around a murder, but Jennifer Lynn Barnes put her own spin on mystery, creating a whole series of puzzles, riddles, and, most importantly, games. Barnes kept me hooked while I was reading by revealing the mystery one detail at a time throughout the whole book. Barnes did an excellent job of creating a multitude of side plots while still keeping focus on the overall secret. All in all, I would highly recommend this novel.
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