#110 The Inheritance Games

 The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

Firstly (as always) a huge thank you to @TheWriteReads for organising yet another amazing blog tour, honestly the amount of work that you put in is astounding and also a huge thank you to penguin, the author Jennifer and of course Netgalley too.

In all honesty i hadnt heard much about The Inheritance Games before agreeing to read it, i was completely won over by the tag line that it was similar to One of Us is Lying which i read last month and adored. The cover is also gorgeous and the premise sounded really unique and fun.

The story revolves around Avery who is your not so average teenager in the fact that her mum died of cancer leaving her in the custody of her not much older than her half sister. Avery's life is turned upside down when she finds out that she has inherited billions from Tobias Hawthorne, a man that she has never met at the same time an entire family has been disinherited and they cannot work out why or who this mysterious girl is. 

One of the stipulations of the will is that Avery must immediately move into the family mansion and live there for a year. She finds that not only do the entire Hawthorne family live in this mansion but that she will have to live alongside Tobias' four grandsons, Grayson, Nash, Jameson and Xander. Each boy was the right amount of broody in his own right but i must admit that i didnt fall for any of them (i think i may be too old for teenage book boyfriends now *cries*) When the will is read each of the boys and Avery receive a letter from their grandfather and immediately work out that there is a riddle to be figured out with Avery at its very centre. Along with the riddle Avery becomes increasingly concerned for her safety living amongst the resentful Hawthornes which made for an edge of your seat mystery read.

I very much enjoyed this book and was glad to see it lived up to all of the early hype surrounding it. The chapters are short (which i loved) and the writing flows well. You cant help but root for Avery who has been plunged into this world with no clue how she fits the puzzle. The ending surprised me as i had a ton of theories but none of them came to anything which is the sign of a great read. I just love it when an ending shocks you. Id be really keen to read anything that Jennifer Lynn Barnes writes next as this was a wonderful read! I highly recommend to anyone who loves a fast paced mystery book.