Think Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code but for teens and with added sex appeal – you’ve got yourself The Inheritance Games
Inheritance – the blurb
A BILLION-DOLLAR FORTUNE TO DIE FOR . . .
She came from nothing.
Avery has a plan: keep her head down, work hard for a better future. Then an eccentric billionaire dies, leaving her almost his entire fortune. And no one, least of all Avery, knows why.
They had everything.
Now she must move into the mansion she’s inherited. It’s filled with secrets and codes, and the old man’s surviving relatives – a family hell-bent on discovering why Avery got ‘their’ money.
Now there’s only one rule: winner takes all.
Soon she is caught in a deadly game that everyone in this strange family is playing. But just how far will they go to keep their fortune?
Money, lust, Money
Imagine waking up to find you are a billionaire, with a mansion that holds not only a bowling alley but a helicopter and a whole host of secrets. I read Inheritance Games in 3 days as it’s one of those with cliff hanger chapter endings where you just have to read the next page. It’s full of twists and cool teens with money to burn and overall was enjoyable. So much so that I will read book number 2 in the series The Hawthorne Legacy (it’s a trilogy, naturally).
I struggled however to really differentiate between the 4 male characters (Nash, Grayson, Jameson and Xander). No wonder Avery couldn’t choose between Grayson and Jameson as she probably couldn’t tell them apart. All 4 were brooding, damaged and attractive and had a definite Christian Grey vibe going on. Even the bodyguard reminded me of the one in Fifty Shades. Hopefully the book’s target audience haven’t read Fifty to make the comparison! The animal attraction that seemed to happen anytime Avery was alone with one of them did become a little eye roll. But then would it be a teen read without a heavy dosage of lust filled stares?
I really hope The Hawthorne Legacy develops the boy’s characters a bit more as the Inheritance and whether Avery gets to keep it sets it up as a real scorcher of a read. Although I’ll probably have to wait until my teen finishes it first.
