Over the past few weeks, I read the first three books of The Inheritance Games series by Jennifer Lynn Barnes: The Inheritance Games, The Hawthorne Legacy, and The Final Gambit. This mystery series is about Avery Grambs, a seventeen-year-old girl who just wants to survive high school and then go college to earn a degree in actuarial science. When a multibillionaire, Tobias Hawthorne, dies and leaves her his entire fortune, she has to move to Texas and live in Hawthorne House, which is full of secret passages, for an entire year. Although Tobias disinherited the family he left behind, they still occupy the mansion and Avery begins to connect with his four grandsons: Grayson, Jameson, Xander, and Nash. Over the next year, with life-threatening dangers coming from all around, Avery has to solve puzzles, riddles, and codes, to figure out why Tobias left her his fortune, who her father really is, and who would want to harm her.
I wanted to love this series and I truly did enjoy the mysteries and the games. I also liked how clever and brave Avery was in the situation of inheriting a massive fortune for which people might kill her. The suspense was amazing and I genuinely worried for Avery at times because she had a couple close calls with death. The romance missed the mark for me, though. I felt like the author was telling why two characters should be together instead of showing, and I really wasn't a fan of that. Fortunately I did like the ending of the third book, The Final Gambit, and how it left things open for more books in the series. I think there is more story to tell in this universe, and I hope that my favorite character, Grayson, gets the ending that he deserves. Overall, the first book, The Inheritance Games, is my favorite of the three. Anyone who enjoys mysteries, thrillers, and suspense should read this series.
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