The Grandest Game

"WHAT A BOOKKKK i loved itttt 😻 except that we got left on a cliffhanger and the next book comes out next year💔but WHAT A BOOOOOKK lowkey very lowk i liked more than the inheritance games 😨😨 don’t tell anyone"

"5⭐️: ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! Read this in one sitting, so many twists and turns to the point where I was on the edge of my seat the ENTIRE time "

"Amazing read. Was sad Avery and the Hawthorne weren’t primary characters but actually loved the new crew. Didn’t expect such a big cliff hanger .. can’t wait for the next book "

"Really good! Ends on a cliffhanger though so I can’t wait for the next one!"

"This book was honestly so good! I used to hate Grayson, but this kinda changed my opinion of him. THE ENDING THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t think I’ll last an entire year for the next book."

"She has done it again. this book is amazing i can't wait for her next book. but i was also disappointed that Avery was not in the book more but i hope that we get more of her in the next book."

"This book exceeded all my expectations! Even though this is technically a spinoff, definitely read the first four books of the Inheritance Games first, and this one only adds to the rest of it! Every page was entertaining, leaving me no choice but to pre-order the next book immediately:)"

"This was honestly probably my second favorite book in the series! I could not put it down and THE ENDING. IM NOT GONNA LAST A YEAR."

"I didn’t love this one. I also didn’t hate it. It was just very meh. The book moves extremely slow. Excruciatingly slow. There’s not a lot of action. The players end up in “The Grandest Escape Room” and that is where we spend 3/4 of the book. It’s disappointing because in the original trilogy I felt like I was solving the puzzles with the characters but in this book I just felt like I was being told how the players solved the puzzles. If you’d like to read about how players solve an escape room - then maybe you’d like this book. The first 1/8 of the book is the players coming to the island. The last 1/8 of the book is the players after finishing the escape room. That is when all the “reveals” happen. But none of them were shocking. There’s a little intrigue. A little mystery. A cliffhanger ending. Am I curious? Yes. But not in a “I need the next book to be released tomorrow” kind of way. I’m disappointed that the entire game wasn’t finished in this book. I feel like there could have been so much more. <br/><br/>I didn’t love the multiple points of view. I honestly didn’t care that much about any of the POV characters. The character development was very lacking in my opinion. The romance felt forced. I didn’t appreciate the way the characters were “paired off” so to speak. Each POV character had their own story within the story and they didn’t interact much. When books have multiple POV one of the best things is seeing how the characters see each other. I didn’t get that here. Rohan was by far the most interesting, but even he didn’t capture my attention the way I feel like a character with his background should. The players who weren’t POV characters were a bit more interesting - particularly Odette, Brady, and Savannah. I might have liked this book more - it might have held more mystery - if all of the players had POV chapters. <br/><br/>I really wanted to love this book. I was hoping it would go back to the brilliance of the original trilogy after drifting away in The Brothers Hawthorne. Unfortunately, it was worse. <br/><br/>The strength of The Inheritance Games lies in its characters. Avery as the unexpected heiress. Why did this billionaire leave a seemingly random teenager his fortune? That was quite the mystery and it had me hooked. The Hawthorne brothers are some of the most fun characters I’ve ever read. It’s a shame that they have taken a back seat. They are mentioned. They have a handful of lines each. But that’s it. It’s a real shame because I loved the Inheritance Games trilogy."

"Still not as good as the Inheritance Games - but much closer than The Brothers Hawthorne was. I wasn’t expecting all of them to be stuck in the escape rooms for the majority of the book, and I wasn’t really a fan of it. While I appreciated getting to know the characters in smaller group settings, I feel like we lost a lot of Jennifer Lynn Barnes magic by literally putting the characters in figurative boxes. I hope the next book in the series allows us to explore the island more. It felt like such a tease that we saw so little of this place we heard so much about in the original series."