The Inheritance Games has a strong premise. A teenage girl living hand to mouth is suddenly said to inherit a stranger’s property worth billions of dollars. The girl is now baffled and sets off trying to figure out why she was chosen as heir instead of the deceased billionaire’s four grandsons. Interesting, right? The story is fast paced, a little tense and carries a sense of mystery to it until it doesn’t.

Avery Grambs lives with her stepsister Libby, struggling to make ends meet when she meets Grayson. Grayson, the smart and suit clad grandson of Tobias Hawthorne announces rather icily that Avery is needed to be present at Tobias’s will reading event. Neither of them know each other and Avery is taken aback by this mysterious man and the aura he carries. Soon, she is made the heiress and it sends her head reeling about how her simple life has now turned upside down. When Avery meets the rest of the grandsons, she is immediately made aware of how different their worlds are.

What the old man Tobias liked the most was puzzles and riddles. And when the teenagers are left with clues to solve one which may inevitably reveal why Avery was chosen as the heiress, they all jump into it. Although the story started off well, somewhere in the middle it started to turn quite predictable. The big reveal itself wasn’t too strong to hold the story together. The characters are a mix of moody, good looking, emotionally scarred teenagers who can’t seem to make up their minds about how to treat Avery.

The Inheritance Games had immense potential to be an incredible mystery novel but unfortunately it failed to impress me much. I’ll be reading the other two books in the series so wish me luck ✨