The Inheritance Games
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4.0 • 30 Ratings
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- £7.99
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- £7.99
Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
An utterly addictive and twisty thriller, full of dark family secrets and deadly stakes. Perfect for fans of One of Us is Lying and Knives Out.
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?
'A fantastic rollercoaster of a book! We Were Liars meets The Da Vinci Code. I loved it!' Kat Ellis, author of Harrow Lake
'A thrilling blend of family secrets, illicit romance and a high-stakes treasure hunt . . . The nonstop twists kept me guessing until the very last page!' Katharine McGee, New York Times bestselling author of American Royals
'One of YA's more reliably twisty and brilliant thriller authors is back with a brand new series that's every bit as impossible to put down as her others' Buzzfeed
© Jennifer Lynn Barnes 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Customer Reviews
A really good book
A really engrossing book, I was invigorated from start to finish.
Love it x
I’m obsessed with the books 😍the story’s addictive 💖 and the narrator is great x
Good mystery, but I just can’t get invested
I don’t think it’s particularly a bad read and the way the mystery plays out is genuinely well written. The main characters likeable as well as most of the side characters and the stuff that really made me downgrade this book a fairly small but pretty distracting:
1. ‘‘I remembered nash’s words ‘you’re not a player you’re the glass ballerina or the knife’ I think you could find that exact quote 10 times in this book at least. The writer seems to either think that that is the most profound thing anyone could ever say. Or they just think their audience can’t hold a thought for more than a second.
2. I’m really not that invested in the romantic relationships- the third book isn’t out yet but I think it’s fairly obvious what’s going to happen. But I think that the predictability of it wouldn’t matter if I actually cared about the relationship.
3. This is my personal taste- it’s okay to have a small tribute when clearly using another piece of literature as inspiration. But this book entirely stole a scene from Rebecca and I think that a bit too far. The fact that Emily’s sister was called Rebecca was a nice touch but it really just seems a lazy way that the writer tried to force their audience to acknowledge how brilliant they must be because they read old books. Shocker.