The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

100th book of 2021

First book in the Inheritance Games

Reading period: December 14th 2021 – December 18th 2021

Summary

She came from nothing. 

Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.

They had everything. 

Now she must move into the mansion she’s inherited. It’s filled with secrets and codes, and the old man’s surviving relatives – a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got ‘their’ money.

Now there’s only one rule: winner takes all. 

Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?

Trigger Warnings

Death, toxic relationship,

Rating

Review

How to finish the year 2021 well? Read a book that is a thriller about a fortune, secrets, riddles and heiress from nowhere.

An addictive and fast read, thanks to its short chapters. However, the fact that you have a lot of chapters makes you sometimes feel stagnant from time to time. Also, it takes a lot of time before having the “deadly’ parts in the book, which was a downside for me. As you have everywhere for the reader that fortune will be a synonym of death, I assumed it was a lot more present than that.

The only other element that surprised me was the construction of the heiress. You have a lot of scenes and details about it, and I wasn’t prepared for that. For me, it was only riddles and puzzles, but nope, and it’s logical, I think… Talking about those, I loved those scenes; I was so stressed by it, and every time I wanted to find the answers before Avery. But, let me tell you, I wasn’t good at it.

You have a lot of sub-plot in this story, but they complete the main plot of this fortune. Everything evolves, but you don’t have all the answers at the end, or at least I’m not convinced by all of them. It feels like being one of the characters and that you’re set in the dark by this strange character, Tobias Hawthorne.

A gripping first book about a fortune that bring quests to find answers given by a dead philanthrope. I’m up for the next book as I still don’t have all the answers to my questions.

Liz.