![]() Yes, despite the idea that every moment may be a flower-visioned princess trying on all the dresses fantasy, it isn’t all Julie Andrews and Anne Hathaway. Clouseau digging the bullets out of a tree. I’d gone from disliking the first 20-40 pages to almost cheering on G.I. Somewhere between then and about a week later, I had been pulled into a mystery in Texas, I was invested in our lead, I’d picked up the next book, and I was hungry for more. I came into the book knowing nothing, even from the recommendations and what I could presuppose from bits around it, so I was going in blind. I’ve always taken a slower, more plodding approach to everything. That includes books I’ve enjoyed immensely, mind you. Īgain, I’ll defer back to my dyslexia and history within that, which has made blasting through a book difficult in the past. Despite not clicking together like a particularly intricate puzzle with some of the segments aimed, (for lack of a nicer term) at teenage women over a mid-20s bloke, I think I loved The Inheritance Games. With that tangled mess of a description, you may have noticed that I am trying not to give too much more away. ![]() The deeply engrossing premise is tangled up in a family history that everyone is a little cagey about, sometimes in ways that are purposefully in service of the plot. This is where I bring in the comparisons: Everything you think you know about Knives Out is exactly what The Inheritance Games is set up to be, a mystery with a teen twist. The wealth that others presume they are owed, not through great deeds, but through simply being around. ![]() Now, I don’t think anyone is going to take a knife to my throat for this one, but through strange circumstances, she inherits a bit of money or more appropriately wealth. Starring your typical American teenager with a backstory so mundanely tragic, I’m sure Hallmark will make a Christmas movie out of it, we follow Avery Kylie Grambs. It bakes a cake that turns out a bit stodgy and you really don’t want to go on eating it. That sounds like I hated the book, doesn’t it? That’s the trouble with mixing preconceived notions and a slow burn. For example, early dialogue between characters read like a CW drama filled with sex, drugs, and angst masquerading as adult themes that are really for teens. I have theories why, and that fed into my early opinions of The Inheritance Games, as my notes highlighted. Truth is, that’s what I thought coming into Jennifer Lynn Barnes ‘ 2020 young adult thriller after several recommendations.Īs I’ve said in previous articles, I never enjoyed the period of reading where I was earmarked to only like young adult fiction. Blame Suzanne Collins for ruining anyone else naming something “ The _ Games ” without being tied to books aimed at teenagers before all their hopes and dreams are burst like a bubble. One, it’s very pretty, and two, someone working in publishing knows how to tell people this is a young adult novel from the title alone. There are only two things I’d have come into The Inheritance Games thinking from the cover alone. ![]() The old adage goes: Don’t judge a book by its cover. ![]()
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