Happy Friday! Today I am participating in First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books, AND First Lines Friday, hosted by Wandering Words!
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines?
- Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
- Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
- Finally… reveal the book!
“When I was a kid, my mom constantly invented games.”
Anyone have any guesses on what book this is? I’ll give you a few clues…
Last chance to guess!
Today’s book is…
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Series: The Inheritance Games #1
Also in this series: The Hawthorne Legacy
Published on September 1, 2020 by Little Brown Books for Young Readers
Genres: Contemporary, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, YA
Pages: 384
Format: Audiobook, Kindle
Source: Amazon
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A Cinderella story with deadly stakes and thrilling twists.
Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why--or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch--and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes.
Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive.
“When I was a kid, my mom constantly invented games.”
I’m part of the upcoming blog tour for The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn Barnes in September, so I started my re-read of The Inheritance Games on Wednesday and I’m loving it even more the second time! Have you read anything by Jennifer Lynn Barnes before? If not, what have you been reading lately? Let me know in the comments and have a splendiferous day!
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This sounds like an interesting read! I have not read anything by this author before.
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