Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Sep 2020 · The Inheritance Games Book 1 · Hachette Audio · Narrated by Christie Moreau

About this audiobook

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Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.

To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch -- and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.

Ratings and reviews

The story and the characters are good, but a lot of the mystery and puzzles were so obvious I was screaming at the main character to just put two and two together. In regards to the settling, I don't think the author has spent any time in Texas or around anyone from the south. I understand that it's fiction, but if you aren't going to use the setting, then why specify it at all? The fact that they mentioned she had inherited a "Texas NFL Team" as an afterthought made me cringe so hard. As to the audiobook specifically, I think the reader watched Joe Dirt and figured everyone in the south sounded like that. It made the sexy leading male characters sound like they were nasally trailer park yokels... I couldn't get into the romance AT ALL. Imagine a man with rippling abs and a square jawline and sopping wet hair taking you into his arms and talking like Ernest! Honestly I was kind of disappointed with all the high reviews. That being said, I did listen to the whole thing!

This book kept me guessing from the start to the end. I am excited to start the next one!

love the entire series.

About the author

Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty acclaimed young adult novels, including Little White Lies, Deadly Little Scandals, The Lovely and the Lost, and The Naturals series: The Naturals, Killer Instinct, All In, Bad Blood, and the e-novella, Twelve. Jen is also a Fulbright Scholar with advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2012 and is currently a professor of psychology and professional writing at the University of Oklahoma. You can find her online at www.jenniferlynnbarnes.com or follow her on Twitter @jenlynnbarnes.