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The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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torturedreadersdept's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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oceanwriter's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

The Inheritance Games is my guilty pleasure series. It’s so wild and something I wouldn’t normally enjoy, alas, here I am for the fourth installment. Though this wasn’t my favorite in the series, it was still a fun time by the end.

Brothers Grayson and Jameson are at the forefront of the games this time around with a heavy focus on Grayson and his sisters. We see some over Avery, but this one is ultimately for the boys.

It looks like I’m not alone in feeling like the first half of the book dragged. I was, frankly, so bored that at one point I stopped reading during a commute and opted just to stare out the train window instead. It took a little while to pick back up again. Thankfully, the last third of the book picked up immensely.

Of all the brothers, Grayson and Jameson are the ones I care about the least. I felt like Jameson’s story was summed up decently in The Final Gambit alongside Avery. Grayson? Meh. I’m a Nash girl. (Side note: I think a lot of this book tried to amplify a reader attraction to the brothers and I am not in the age group where I have any interest on that front. So that was weird.) I was disappointed that we didn’t see much of Nash and Xander.

The book left me more confused than pumped for another installment. There are questions left unanswered but without an urgency that was found midway through the first two books. I don’t think this book needed to exist to make the series complete. Will I read a fifth book? Sure. Will I have the same level of excitement I initially had about book four? No.

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oddduck's review

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4.5

Another very fast read, and it was very fun getting to see more about the Hawthorne brothers. With every book that has a split pov, I tend to reach a point where I strongly favor one character over the other and it's a slog to get through the one I care less about, but both Grayson and Jameson's stories kept me riveted the entire time. The only thing I took a half star off for is because, while I trust Jennifer Lynn Barnes, I do feel

that having another character who's been presumed dead for years not actually be dead is pushing it.

I trust that this will be resolved in a satisfactory way in the next book, but still.

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itstruly_flower's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

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emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.25

The first The Inheritance Games full-length book strictly from the Hawthorne brothers' POV.
I know this is probably the publisher's fault, not the authors, but I hated that it was two different stories going on at once and switching back and forth. This book really should have been two separate books! The constantly switching POVs took me out of the story. I would have preferred it as book 1 and book 2, one with Jameson's story and one with Grayson's. Plus, they didn't even have different narrators for each brother!
I didn't enjoy this book nearly as much as the others. I don't know if that's because this is the first one I listened to on audio, or if it's because of the problem of it being too long and the POV switching all the time.
Overall it was okay to good, but nowhere near great. It was also a bit predictable.

Narrator Rating: 3 stars
The narrator was good at doing different voices. But not great at changing tone for mood shifts. And didn't use much emotion in the reading.

Extra ratings: Fluff - 3/5 Heartfelt- 2/5 Helpful -NA Horror -NA Inspiration -NA Love aka Romance- 2.5/5 Mystery -2/5 Predictability -3.75/5 Spice-0.5/5 Suspense - NA Tear- 2/5 Thrill - 1.5/5 Humor-2.5/5

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kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I loved that this book flipped back and forth between Grayson’s storyline and Jameson’s storyline. Each time the focus shifted, I found myself desperately wanting to get back to the other’s storyline, only to, then, find myself even more invested in the new storyline, and this cycle repeated.

I learned to love all of the characters even more in this book!

I was onto something with Jameson’s secret, but it still wasn’t what I expected.

The Epilogue has me freaking out a little bit, and, as always with Ms. Barnes, I can’t wait for the next book!

THANK GOD VINCENT BLAKE IS GONE! Though Eve may be a bigger threat.

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