I’m so excited to be part of the TBR & Beyond tour for fantastic ending to the Inheritance Games series. Find the full tour schedule here.
About the book
The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games #3) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Genre: Young Adult Mystery
Publishing Date: August 30, 2022
Synopsis:
Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.
To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets, and they know her.
But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player.
Secrets upon secrets. Riddles upon riddles. In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake—and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning.
Book Review
I’m 100% Team Grayson, and I so hope we get another book in this universe! This engrossing, page-turning finale to the Hawthorne Legacy mysteries cements its place as one of the great YA series. It has non-stop action, smoldering feelings and a love triangle as Avery is torn between two brothers.
Jameson Hawthorne said it best when he said that his grandfather set “traps upon traps. And riddles upon riddles.” This book continues the cat-and-mouse games of riddles and puzzles readers came to expect from the other books.
Avery faces her most dangerous opponent yet when prodigal son Toby Hawthorne gets kidnapped. Luckily, Avery has the four handsome, smart Hawthorne brothers to help her solve the puzzles the kidnapper sets for her. She just has to keep herself from getting too distracted by her romance with Jameson Hawthorne and her lingering feelings for troubled brother Grayson. This book sees Avery getting closer to solving the mystery of why she was chosen as heir to a $40-something billion fortune from a stranger. It’s not as random as she once thought, as Avery discovers Hawthorne connections she never dreamed of.
Romantic entanglements and double-crossing relatives provide tension. Avery’s overall goodness is given several moments to shine through, and as she grows closer to the Hawthorne brothers, it’s interesting to see them more allies as than adversaries.
This book left me hoping for more spin-offs, because I’m not ready to be done with the Hawthorne brothers!
Thank you to the publisher and TBR & Beyond Tours for the gifted copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
About the author
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (who mostly goes by Jen) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been, in turn, a competitive cheerleader, a volleyball player, a dancer, a debutante, a primate cognition researcher, a teen model, a comic book geek, and a lemur aficionado. She’s been writing for as long as she can remember, finished her first full book (which she now refers to as a “practice book” and which none of you will ever see) when she was still in high school, and then wrote Golden the summer after her freshman year in college, when she was nineteen.
Jen graduated high school in 2002, and from Yale University with a degree in cognitive science (the study of the brain and thought) in May of 2006. She’ll be spending the 2006-2007 school year abroad, doing autism research at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
