She’s a high schooler, but Avery Grambs has had her share of life experiences. Her dad is a deadbeat and her mother has passed away. She lives with her older half sister and her on-again off-again toxic boyfriend, just trying to get through high school so she can make her way onto bigger and better things via scholarship. But then multibillionaire Tobias Hawthorne – who she’s never met – dies and leaves her everything, despite a whole house full of seemingly worthy successors. Tobias was fond of puzzles and left a very complicated one for Avery to untangle, along with his four enigmatic grandsons. It’s a race to figure out the clues while navigating a dangerous world of extreme privilege.
The first book was the best, but I was absolutely charmed by this whole series. The characters are fully developed and not without flaws. It’s YA and, yes, there’s a love triangle, but it doesn’t get too cheesy. It leans more in the direction of puzzles and mystery – I couldn’t pause until a riddle was solved, but each one led to another…which means I basically couldn’t put it down and read straight through.
5 out of 5 stars.
Pair with: Brandy
Peaches to Apples 