The Brothers Hawthorne
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Book Cover Rating: 9.8/10
(My personal opinion)
Pages: 480
Genre: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Mystery
Subplots: Romance
Series: The Inheritance Games #4
Published: 2023
Hook:
Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem—efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements.
Jameson Hawthorne is a risk-taker, a sensation-seeker, a player of games. When his mysterious father appears and asks for a favor, Jameson can’t resist the challenge. Now he must infiltrate London’s most exclusive underground gambling club, which caters to the rich, the powerful, and the aristocratic, and win an impossible game of greatest stakes. Luckily, Jameson Hawthorne lives for impossible.
Drawn into twisted games on opposite sides of the globe, Grayson and Jameson—with the help of their brothers and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune—must dig deep to decide who they want to be and what each of them will sacrifice to win.
Overall Book Rating: 7.6/10
I would recommend this book
Review: Hmmmmm…. This was a good book. It just wasn’t as great as some of the other Inheritance Games books. The plot was interesting and exciting, but the book just overall felt a little unnecessary. I liked the aspects that were the same in previous books in the series. For example, I really liked the characters and writing. So much of the book just felt SO unnecessary and dragging. Overall, I think you can just skip this book and still enjoy the rest of the series, but it wasn’t bad.
Main Characters
Avery Grambs- Avery is the main character in this book. She has one half sister (but she feels a whole lot more like a full sister to her), and is BRILLIANT. She’s also 18 years old.
Jameson Hawthorne- Jameson is one of the Hawthorne Brothers. He is 19. He is reckless and adventurous.
Grayson Hawthorne- Grayson is another Hawthorne Brother. He is 20. He is more reserved than Grayson and tends to try to be “perfect” to a fault.
Character Rating: 9.5/10
Setting-
This books takes place in two main locations: London, England and Phoenix, Arizona.
Setting Rating: 7.2/10
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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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