A review by thefearlessfrock
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
fast-paced
1.25
I had relly high hopes of this book being at least ok - given the premise being intriguing - but I was quite disappointed.
VERY flat characters, the "twists" were very easy to figure out, right from the very beginning. It was shallow and pretty pointless in general. (I know that this is only the first book of a series, but there's no way I'd read the rest. From love triangles to "beautiful boys falling for the same, ordinary girl", all tropes that we have already encountered far too many times were in this book.)
I only finished it, because I'm on a quest to find YA books I actually enjoy. I don't want to give up on the genre in general. So, I kept the hope until the very last page that this one would surprise me, or something.
It did not.
VERY flat characters, the "twists" were very easy to figure out, right from the very beginning. It was shallow and pretty pointless in general. (I know that this is only the first book of a series, but there's no way I'd read the rest. From love triangles to "beautiful boys falling for the same, ordinary girl", all tropes that we have already encountered far too many times were in this book.)
I only finished it, because I'm on a quest to find YA books I actually enjoy. I don't want to give up on the genre in general. So, I kept the hope until the very last page that this one would surprise me, or something.
It did not.