Billions. Wars had been fought over less.
The Inheritance Games
by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Genre: YA Contemporary
About: Avery Grambs is an ordinary teenage girl who happens, right now, to be living in her car, meanwhile in school the principle thinks she's been cheating on her physics test. But life gets an unexpected upswing when she's named in the will of a man she's never met but who has - for reasons no-one can fathom, least of all Avery - to have left his entire multibillion fortune to her.
The Good
The setup was really intriguing and I did enjoy that there were so many puzzles to solve and mysteries to answer. The setting was also really well established and all the characters were given good, solid backgrounds - they never felt like pointless sides, everyone had something to add to the story and I really liked that.
The Bad
It was so predictable for me! I guessed the 'bombshell' ending during the first seventy pages and during the rest of it nothing happened that really shocked me. I also found Avery to be quite a boring main character. It's given pretty heavy-handedly at the beginning that she's a genius as well as very good-natured, but then turns into her just being a horny teenager for the Hawthorne brothers (yes both of them, no she can't decide which one is more dreamy), and she takes to extreme wealth with an easy shrug. She just didn't seem to care about anything. The most we got was travel, supposedly because of all the interesting people and the culture, yet she shows no interest in people or culture around her. Unless they're hot boys.
The Somewhat Iffy
The descriptions were not great. Before we even know Grayson's name (and I laughed when we found it out) we get descriptions of his pales eyes, grey as his suit, and Mr Grey Eyes with pools of silver bloody eyes. We learn the eye colour of pretty much every character and the descriptions are always just really obvious ones that told me nothing about the characters themselves. Also the dialogue. I hated how over-the-top formal Grayson's dialogue was and it got old real fast how many times Jameson threw in a nickname for Avery.
Overall
The main problem I had with this book was that, because it's so fast-paced, no scene lasts longer than a breath and it gives the reader no time to be in the moment with the characters. Lots of things happen, but it feels as if nothing happens. It was over in a blink and I didn't care.
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