i also can't get over the whole emily subplot.buying into a high school girl solving a billionaire's years-long puzzle and catching the attention of the 18 + 19 year old brothers while she's at it is just a bit too much of a stretch, even for ya. imagine the shock, the intrigue, the comedy of a low income, jeff bezos-hating college student with loans out the ass suddenly coming into billions? and having to live with two hot white guys? this concept is a lot funnier than it was written. on that note, this concept would have been so much better if the characters were all college-aged.HOW OLD IS AVERY? are we ever gonna ask that? because she's interacting romantically with adult men as a minor? just wondering hehe. the inheritance games is very much a predictable "mystery" that ended up slowed down by the tediousness of a love triangle i still don't really buy. this was textbook young adult in that i could feel the plot mechanics moving as i zipped through the pages.xander was the best brother-a puppy, if you will-and i stand by that.the amount of times the narrator repeats lines of dialogue verbatim in her head did in fact give me a migraine.FLEXED HIS ABS A LITTLE AND CALLED IT A DAY. HE WAS JUST A TRENCH COAT OF FORTUNE COOKIE QUOTES. "play alone and you’re bound to win, mystery girl." "the ball always looks for the best player," he replied with the glint of a grin, cutting me off. "please, i really have to pee, can you just-" "he who leaves the game, loses, heiress," he said. "can you point me to the bathroom?" i asked. this is how all of jameson and avery's interactions went:.not to get into semantics, but if faced with a choice between two rich white boys, why NOT PICK THE ARTISTIC PHILANTHROPIST? WHO IS GENTLE AND FORGIVING? AND WASN'T PLAYING A BULLSHIT HOT AND COLD GAME WITH AVERY'S HEART BECAUSE HE IS EMOTIONALLY UNHINGED WITH THE MENTAL MATURITY OF A 13 YEAR OLD GTA GAMER?.i clocked the endgame from the moment the hawthorne brothers were introduced, which is always irritating, because love triangles only really work (at least for me) when there seems to be a genuine struggle to decide between two equally interesting, three dimensional characters.LIKE? ARE YOU DERANGED? JUST HIRE A FAMILY THERAPIST? YOU LITERALLY HAVE EVERY RESOURCE AT YOUR DISPOSAL?.not this billionaire secretly surveilling a low income teenage girl for most of her adolescence while she's struggling to stay afloat and literally living out of her car? taking and saving photos of her without her knowledge? and hoarding his wealth all the while? while she's barely scraping by? until the day he dies and finally decides-now that he no longer needs that wealth-it'll all go to her in exchange for using her as a pawn in his family's trauma olympics? GUILLOTINE!.all you need to do is give your teenage main character a vaguely tragic past, enough stubbornness to allow her to mildly bump heads with love interests every once in a while, a weakness for hot emotionally unavailable rich boys, and a best friend of color to carry things (for flavor). the young adult threshold for personality is in HELL.two of them always gotta have unaddressed trauma. i ain't never seen four emotionally intelligent brothers.Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out.
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