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A decent final book that is saved by its ending

The Final Gambit by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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Avery Kylie Grambs is coming up on the end of one year of living in Hawthorne House. Soon, one of the largest fortunes in the world (billions and billions of dollars) will be Avery’s. She has satisfied every stipulation in the will set out by Tobias Hawthorne, solved the many puzzles and riddles that he left, and established herself as part of the family along with her older sister. Things are going alright. Until someone shows up claiming to be the daughter of Tobias’ estranged […]

A servicable sophomore entry in the series

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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BINGO – Series The second installation in The Inheritance Games Series is The Hawthorne Legacy. This book picks up almost immediately after the events of the first book which makes sense. Avery has to live in her newly inherited house for a full year with minimal interruption in order to secure the inheritance she was given by a stranger just a few weeks prior. The games of the first book have served their purpose: the grandsons of the Hawthorne family have aired their grievances and secrets […]

A cozy escape room of a book

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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BINGO – Cozy Avery Kylie Grambs has been named as essentially the sole inheritor of a massive fortune (think billions and billions). That would complicate life for any high school student, but, in Avery’s case, she’s never even met her surprise benefactor, the late Tobias Hawthorne. Mr. Hawthorne’s two daughters are left reeling at the reading of the will, but his four grandsons suspect that a game is afoot. Their grandfather loved puzzles, and they suspect that this is one too. Avery is just caught […]

Popcorn, but gourmet popcorn

The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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There’s Serious Literature, and then there’s beach reads – popcorn. But sometimes that popcorn is better than average, it’s got a little something extra to elevate it, and that, my friends, is gourmet popcorn. And gourmet popcorn is exactly what The Hawthorne Legacy delivers. As book 2 in a planned trilogy, we pick up only a week or so after book 1, The Inheritance Games, concludes. Our main character, Avery Grambs, is still living at Hawthorne House with the four Hawthorne brothers, and still trying […]

If a certain two movies were combined with a certain novel this is what you’d get

The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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The Inheritance Games is basically Knives Out meets The Westing Game with a touch of any standard YA romance. The heroine Avery comes from a poor background with a good bit of family disfunction, but she plans to get out of that by going to college for actuarial science. These plans are interrupted when she finds out that she’s been named heiress to a massive fortune left to her by Tobias Hawthorne, whom she’s never heard of. To get the billions, all she has to […]



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