384 pages
English language
Published June 26, 2020 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.
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. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a …
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why -- or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.
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. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a conwoman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
Fun book that felt like a fan fiction sequel to Knives Out. I liked the twists, surprises and seeing how the puzzle pieces fit together.
it was a good book, the puzzles and mysteries were interesting to read but I feel like the love interests hadn't been written about much/were hard to picture due to the lack of descriptions so it was hard to imagine them as love interests. The dialogue was written well, it showed aspects of their personality. Also, it felt like I didn't know much about Avery since there wasn't much written about her as a person.
I had a blast reading this entertaining young adult mystery novel about a teenage girl who - out of the blue - inherits several billions from a philanthropist even though she's never met him before (and, of course, he has not one, not two, but four handsome and also somewhat baffled and miffed grandsons) and no, for once I didn't care that the plot is ridiculous at times, and that the twists are fairly predictable, and that the characters are...well, straight out of a YA novel.
I want more. I'd also super like a billion dollars, please.
Very entertaining and easy to read, not a new favorite or anything but the mystery was fun^^
I hate it when I get a book and think "is this a YA novel?" only to get to the end and see that, yes, the author is known for writing YA novels.
So I'm not the target audience here. I found it to be very manga-ish. A young woman catapulted into a different life, confronted by a series of characters that are almost caricatures. The cowboy, the nerd, the heir, the mysterious one. Add a little Mean Girls, throw in a pile of regret. The puzzles weren't as puzzling as I expected, and just generally it wasn't my thing. But it's a YA novel and these novels aren't my thing, so there you go.
My daughter liked this book... I'm obviously not the target audience
