I adored Knives Out and was super excited when I heard there was a YA book about a vaguely similar subject. The Inheritance Games tells the story of Avery, a young girl who is plucked from her normal life when she is told she has inherited the entire fortune of a billionaire-a billionaire she has never met. Souring this exciting news though are the billionaire's existing family. It turns out the old man was quite a fan of puzzles and suddenly the whole family are keen to solve this one.
This isn't quite the book I was expecting from the blurb, which admittedly I think is more my fault than the book's. I was honestly expecting the puzzles to be a much larger part of the story and also the inheritance, perhaps with family members competing to outdo each other. Instead Avery has straight-up inherited everything, and the puzzles are mostly her and the other family members trying to work out why she has been given the money over everyone else.
The structure of this book feels very YA if you are an older reader. There are a host of attractive young grandsons to play love interest to Avery, and honestly it felt like there was one too many of them. Having said that, the characters are one of the strengths of this novel. I enjoyed the different family dynamics and the tensions that arose from them. The mystery sometimes takes a back seat but I was always engaged in trying to work out the puzzles in the book and guess why Avery might have been chosen. A lot of the puzzles you are actually given the opportunity to solve which I always like.
Overall, The Inheritance Games is an enjoyable book, if a little sparse as a mystery/thriller. There are some really great elements and I had a blast reading it, just don't expect something super tense or intricate.
Overall Rating:
.5
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