The Hawthorne Legacy by Jennifer Lynn BarnesMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Okay, so I've binge read all four books in this series and reviewed them out of order so I'm not 100% sure what happens in this book and what happened in book 1 and, for that matter, what happened in book 3.
Anyhoo, Avery Grambs was an ordinary teenager, she had it harder than most, especially after her mother died, when she was taken in by her half-sister Libby because their deadbeat Dad Ricky wanted nothing to do with either of them. Then she discovered that she has been left a multi-billion dollar fortune by an eccentric millionaire, Tobias Hawthorne at the expense of his two daughters and four grandsons, provided she spends a year living at Hawthorne House. As is always the way with these mega-rich families, the boys are all devastatingly attractive but also all have major issues because none of their (different) fathers have ever been in the picture and their mother Skye is very absentee. In fact the only love and attention any of them received was from their grandfather Tobias, but he was all about pushing them to be the best., most extraordinary people they could be. Tobias loved puzzles, the more convoluted the better, and a multi-billionaire can afford to indulge himself. So Hawthorne House, where Avery and the four brothers live, is just one puzzle after another. Secret passageways, hidden compartments, invisible writing on the walls, word games, agility games, mechanical puzzles.
I'm pretty sure in this book we find out more about Avery's parents and also the identity of two of the brothers' fathers.
However, as Avery becomes more high-profile it appears that someone (or more than one person) is trying to kill her before she has spent a year in Hawthorne House. Unfortunately, there seem to be a lot of suspects ...
Loved it, didn't love the love-triangle aspect but never fear it does get resolved soon.
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