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The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

95 reviews

uhmajinn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Incest, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Violence and Fire/Fire injury

onlycha1ayy's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This Might be my favorite book out of the entire series. Also, even though I am team Jameson, I have to admit Avery and Grayson are cute. 🙂

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Drug abuse and Self harm

e_neu's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death, Gun violence, Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Stalking, Suicide attempt, and Alcohol

spacecadetlav's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The writing is a bit juvenile, even though I love YA. It’s difficult to buy into this world, but I found the romance to be the most engaging part of this story. I liked where the mystery went, whereas the previous installment of this series I didn’t care for the puzzle.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, and Kidnapping

kawaii_rose's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Blood

justagirlwithbooks's review against another edition

4.0

 “The trick to being abandoned was to never let yourself long for anyone who left.”

Oh my gosh, this was so good! The twists and turns this book had left me GAGGED.

Also, I listened to the audiobook for this one, and it was really funny to hear the Hawthorne's accents. The whole Tobey II is Harry thing was WILD and I was here for it! And Sheffield... bro. That's all I'm gonna say.

This book was better than the first one, because more things were getting answered here, and the mystery kept getting deeper. I'm excited to see how this all ends!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence and Violence

Moderate: Kidnapping

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

elisha002's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Violence, Death of parent, and Dysphoria

ladybug12793's review against another edition

mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

Disappointing

Reading this was like pulling teeth. Where the first book was fast-paced and fun, this one dragged on. Nothing happens except for a bunch of filler until the last 15% of the book with ridiculous plot twists.

I don’t even want to get into the “love triangle” with the wet blanket brothers. Absolutely no chemistry between any of them. Again, like the first book, I felt no emotional connection towards these characters.

Since this book was so underwhelming, I don’t think I will continue on in the series. 

0 🌶️ 

* please disregard grammatical errors due to voice texting

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Cursing and Infidelity

Cursing- A**hole is said like 2-3 times. That’s it.

nina_bookkura's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Kidnapping

riverlasol's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

3.5

This series is a great one to just escape the real world for a bit. Love the clever mysteries and reveals, though this second instalment was actually a bit too fast paced for me and I would've loved some time to sit with some of those revelations. The romance also isn't particularly noteworthy in my personal opinion.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Drug abuse