The Hawthorne Legacy
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Pages: 380
Genre: Young adult, realistic fiction, mystery
Series: The Inheritance Games #2
Hook:
Overnight, Avery Grambs went from sleeping in her car to billionaire heiress. Now ensconced in a world of opulence, riddles, danger, and family secrets, Avery is on the hunt for the one person who might hold the answers to all her questions—including why eccentric billionaire Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, instead of to his daughters and four grandsons.
Grayson and Jameson Hawthorne pull Avery in different directions as she works through puzzle after puzzle. Nothing is as it seems, and it’s getting harder to tell who her allies are and who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture by any means necessary.
Rating: 8.5/10
I would obviously recommend this book
Review: Wow. This book is clearly a Jennifer Lynn Barnes book. I really enjoyed reading this. The plot was definitely in-depth enough, filled with puzzles and riddles. There was a bunch of family drama, but not in the annoying and overwhelming way. Again, there were little things that ideally in my opinion should be slightly different, but that’s being really picky. I loved Avery and the other side characters and their interactions. Nothing felt too cheesy to me, but I see how small parts of the book could be seen that way. Overall, this was a fabulous book that I really enjoyed.
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Jennifer Lynn Barnes (who mostly goes by Jen) is the author of more than a dozen critically acclaimed young adult novels. She has advanced degrees in psychology, psychiatry, and cognitive science, including graduate degrees from Cambridge University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Yale University, where she received her Ph.D. in 2012. Jen wrote her first published novel when she was nineteen-years-old and sold her first five books while still in college. In additional to writing YA novels, Jen has also written original pilot scripts for television networks like USA and MTV, and she is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of fandom and the cognitive science of fiction and the imagination more broadly. Jen is an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, where she holds a dual appointment in Psychology and Professional Writing.
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