The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn BarnesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
After the story concluded at the end of the third book (very satisfactorily) this is sort of a What Happened Next. But don't be dismayed, there are still puzzles galore.
Xander, Nash, LIbby and the other girls very much take a backseat in this story, which focuses on Avery and Jameson together and Grayson on his own.
Grayson has had a private investigator keeping tabs on his half-sisters, then he gets a call to say that one of them (Gigi) has been arrested for trying to break into a bank vault. Apparently ,Gigi and her twin Savannah have found a safe deposit key in their father's possessions and are hoping that it will give them some clues as to where he disappeared to. Grayson knows very well where his father went and will do anything in his power to keep that secret from his sisters, even if it mean lying to them. Despite his attempts to be cool and detached, Grayson can't help liking his half-sisters and their mother so when he discovers that his father appears to have defrauded his wife's trust and is being investigated by the FBI he feels he has to help.
Meanwhile, Avery and Jameson are travelling the world seeking new experiences and (for Jameson at least) new thrills. However, when they land in London, Jameson receives an invitation to meet his father, who asks him to 1) get invited to an exclusive London gaming club, so exclusive just mentioning the name could have serious consequences 2) catch the eye of the proprietor of said gaming club by behaving in a way that intrigues him, so that 3) he gets invited to play the very exclusive annual game and 4) win it so that he can 5) claim back one of the family's castles which Jameson's father lost in a gamble.
Oh, and evil Eve makes an appearance.
Really good, two different 'treasure hunts' for want of a better description and an absolute mind-blowing secret that Jameson has been keeping since Prague.
View all my reviews
No comments:
Post a Comment