By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
⁀➷ ❝est unus ex nobis. nos defendat eius.❞ she is one of us. we protect her. -Grayson
⁀➷ ❝I halfway convinced myself that as long as Avery was just a riddle or a puzzle, as long as I was just playing, I’d be fine. Well, jokes’ on me, because somewhere along the way, I stopped playing.❞. -Jameson
Hey-o! I’m back with The Inheritance Game series! This second books is good, so I hope you guys read it as well! Let’s start:
The Inheritance Games really left me shook! Now Avery Grambs has to figure out why Tobias Hawthorne left his fortune to her, a nobody, instead of his daughters or grandsons.
Thanks to a handy DNA test, Avery knows that she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as enemies emerge who will stop at nothing to see Avery out of the picture – at all costs.
Spoilers ahead!!!
✨it’s Xander for me✨
(All four are great but Xander is so underrated)
everyone else: Grayson or Jameson, that is the question…
(Shakespeare is SHOCKED)
So The Hawthorne Legacy leaves off where the first book left off. Avery is still trying to figure why Tobias Hawthorne the Billionare left her all this money. Avery is very, very, very, very rich.
She finds out that Tobias Hawthorne the Second is also alive. He was disguised as Harry, the homeless guy Avery played chess with before the will’s reading. Why is the son of a billionare disguised as a homeless man, you may ask?
Very good question, dear reader. And for that, we have no answer. Yet. As we know, Avery is going to find out. She and Jameson place a bet about who finds Toby first. The game is afoot! Or as Jameson Winchester Hawthorne would say: Game on.
First, Avery is attending a NFL game because she owns a team. (Of course she owns a team!) Fireworks go off at half-time but she panics, thinking it’s gunfire. She’s reminded of the time she got shot at, in the last book. Grayson and Jameson both calm her down and Jameson drops a hint that he’s found a lead on Harry/Toby.
Avery tells Grayson about Harry/Toby and he tells her not to tell anyone. Here’s what Grayson’s reasoning is:
“My mother has no grounds on which to challenge the will. My aunt has
no grounds on which to challenge the will. But Toby? If my uncle is alive, he is the one person on this planet who might be able to break the old man’s will.”
Not a bad reason. Avery finds about The List. (Yes, The List of potential stalkers that could kill Avery) Xander, Jameson, and Avery break into Toby’s wing at Hawthorne House. It was bricked up. She finds a cipher disk. And Jameson tries (and fails) to hide a poem that he found under a tile:
“I was angry with my friend, I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe. I told it not, my wrath did grow.” – Poison Tree by William Blake
Lovely poem. “Long story short,” Xander summarized, “the author’s hidden wrath grows into a tree, the tree bears fruit, the fruit is poisoned, and the enemy— who doesn’t know they are enemies—eats the fruit. The whole shebang ends with a dead body. Very catchy.”
When Thea googles “The Poison Tree” Avery sees a search about the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine. Basically if someone finds evidience using illegal methods, the evidence is not used. In one of the law books Avery and Jameson find another poem that seems to be a Toby Hawthorne original: “Secrets, lies, all I despise, the tree is poison, don’t you see? It poisoned S and Z and me. The evidence I stole is in the darkest hole. Light shall reveal all I write upon the …” What’s the last word? Well that’s up to you to find out. But they need a black light. Turns out there are 7 black lights in Hawthorne House and they all belong to Alexander Hawthorne. But using clues and their brains, they find Toby’s diary.
In the beginnnign, Toby’s probably 10 or 11 and he sounds like Xander (fun loving; talks about things exploding) . But as he gets older, something changed. One day, his entry was: They lied. It took a long time for him to put the truth into words. Want to know what the truth was? Well, I’m not telling you. I’m not going to spoil the whole book! You really want to know? Go read the book and find out. But the handwriting in this diary seem’s easily familiar? Hmm… Oh wait, I remember. This looks like the handwriting on Avery’s birth certificate. Hmmm… wonder what that means. And don’t we know that Avery’s mom had some secret?:
“I have a secret, I could hear my mom telling me less than a week before she died. About the day you were born.”
Onto my thoughts:
I liked this book. And the secrets in this book were, like, really good. Very unexpected. There were so many plot twists! When I say I would have predicted nothing, I mean NOTHING. There were so many riddles and puzzles. The book definitely kept me on my toes and the pages turning. But my hart ached for the 4 Hawthorne Brothers. The way they grew up. And when I say that I don’t mean that they shouldn’t have played games and done puzzles and riddles with their grandfather. But Skye, their mother was not a good mother. I LOATHE her. Avery’s relationship with her sister, Libby is beautiful. She won’t let anything happen to Libby.
I loved the ending! I cannot believe Xander made life-sized re-creation of the three most lovable droids from Star Wars!!! And for Max!?! Nash took care of Libby all the time! Grayson always protects Avery! Jameson loves Avery! I adore all the Hawthorne Brothers.
*Inhales deeply*
1, 2, 3
*Exahle*
She picked Jameson!!! AHHHHH!!! I feel bad for Grayson but I feel like Jameson is just better for Avery. No offense to any Grayson-fans out there. But seriously. Can we talk about the interview scene? If you’ve read the book, you know exactly what part I’m talking about. Why would Grayson do that? There were other ways to achieve his goal? But I think, if Grayson wasn’t afraid of losing her like he lost Emily, he and Avery would be an item. But I’m kind of glad that Grayson friend-zoned her. (Hear me out, people) The reason Gray friend-zoned Avery is because he didn’t want another girl getting between him and his brother. And if there’s anything I admire about him, it’s that he thinks about his family. Family first, like the old man said. And I’m not saying I only like one thing about him. He’s very smart, down-to-earth, practically person. He’s an over all good guy, even though he may come off as a rude person.
And with that I end this review. Thank you lovely readers and I’ll see you in my next review.
Byeee!
XOXO
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