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The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

15 reviews

siennaflynn's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Stalking, Death, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Toxic friendship, Physical abuse, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Bullying

btwnprintedpgs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious fast-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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Stalking

Minor: Death and Death of parent

Mentions JKR (HP)

unicornofthesea's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Violence, and Gun violence

itsmeaemma's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious relaxing 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Classism, Death of parent, Gun violence, Blood, Cursing, Bullying, and Child abuse

bookaddictellagershon's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Violence, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Stalking, Classism, and Death

juliaisnotalright's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

A girl inherits billions and she doesn’t know who the dead guy was. She needs to stay at a mysterious mansion with a lot of secrets AND the dead guy has 4 ✨very attractive✨ grandsons.
I liked the mysteries but hated the love triangle.
And somehow it was very addicting to read but looking back there were only a few plot twists and one that I though would be the biggest one was only okay.
The concept is really nice and the writing most of the time aswell.
Devoured the second half of the book in under 2 days but now I have more questions than I had before.
Don’t really know if I’m going to read the sequels.
Would recommend to younger teens and people that love mystery and love triangles.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Bullying, and Death

morganperks's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, and Child death

Moderate: Grief, Stalking, Bullying, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Chronic illness, Death of parent, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Blood, Car accident, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, and Classism

Minor: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Murder, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Biphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Cancer, Racism, and Incest

ttumbletree's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

I didn’t expect to like this book as much as I did. I thought it’d be predictable and not really my style. But despite my expectations, the book had me hooked within a couple of pages. I loved guessing along with the characters about what would happen and how they would solve each mystery. 
What I do have to say though, is that the book sometimes feels like a teen drama show. This is not a bad thing (one look at my old tumblr reveals how much I obsessed over teen drama shows, so yeah, definitely not a bad thing) but I still wanted to point it out. 
The only reason I didn’t give the book five stars is the fact that I don’t really vibe with love triangles. So far it wasn’t even all that bad, but love triangles just always leave a bad taste in my mouth. But oh well, I’ll see what happens in the next book. 
See, that’s another positive thing about the book, I didn’t wait a single second after finishing the book, before I ordered the sequel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Blood, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Violence, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Fire/Fire injury

keats_the_listener's review against another edition

tense medium-paced

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

2.0

I honestly was hoping more for this book as it was recommended by someone who recommended it in the same conversation as A discussion of Knives Out.  The book is just a series of toxic conversations and relationships.  I just didn’t get the appeal 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Terminal illness, Bullying, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Body shaming, Child death, and Classism

amygirl's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.0

Spoiler

the romance is weirding me out why is she being like toxic Emily and wanting to date them both. stop it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying and Car accident