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Title: The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games #3)
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Genre: Young Adult, Mystery, Thriller
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Source: Purchased
Format: Hardcover
Release Date: August 30, 2022
Rating: ★★★★★
Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.
To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets and they know her.
But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player.
The countdown is on until Avery Grambs reaches one year living in Hawthorne House, giving her control of her inheritance. Before she can inherit everything that Tobias Hawthorne left her, there is one more grand puzzle for her to solve with the Hawthorne brothers.
This final book in the trilogy had as many twists and turns as the first two books! It was really hard to decide who to trust, especially when Avery was left the ominous message “don’t trust anyone.” Everyone became a suspect in my eyes. I won’t explain the final game/puzzle Avery had to solve since it gives away the endings of the first two books, but it was very suspenseful! I really liked the way the ending wrapped everything up but I’m still eager to read more about these characters. I’m excited to read the next Hawthorne book next month!
The Final Gambit is a great ending to this trilogy!
Content warnings: murder, death of parent, death of grandparent, attempted suicide (mentioned)
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Title: Bookshop Cinderella (Scandal at the Savoy #1)
Author: Laura Lee Guhrke
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
Publisher: Forever
Source: Publisher
Format: Paperback
Release Date: June 20, 2023
Rating: ★★★★★
Fans of Lisa Kleypas and Julia Quinn will adore this opposites-attract romance featuring a dashing duke, a shy bookshop owner, and a wager that will change their lives forever.
Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest adventure an unmarried woman with no prospects could hope for. Until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, saunters into her shop with a proposition: to win a bet with his friends, he’ll turn her into the diamond of the season. The duke might be devilishly attractive, but Evie has no intention of accepting his ludicrous offer. When disaster strikes her shop, however, she’s left with little choice but to let herself be whisked into his high-society world.
Always happy to help a lady in distress, Max thinks he’s saving Evie from her dull spinster’s life. He’ll help her find a husband and congratulate himself on a job well done. But as shy Evie becomes the shining star he always knew she could be, she somehow steals his heart. And when her reputation is threatened, can Max convince her to choose a glittering, aristocratic life with him over the cozy comfort of her bookshop?
London, 1896: Evie Harlow runs a bookshop on her own. She’s content with her quiet life, until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, walks into her shop with a proposition. He’s made a bet with his friends to turn Evie into the diamond of the season who can fill her dance card at a ball. Evie thinks that idea is ridiculous, but when a disaster hits her shop, she decides to take him up on his offer to have a little vacation. Max thinks he is rescuing Evie from her quiet spinster lifestyle, but as she turns into the diamond he predicted, he realizes she could be the one for him. When scandal threatens to pull them apart, Evie has to figure out if she wants to stay at her bookshop or become a Duchess.
This was such a cute story. When Max told Evie about the bet he had made, he said he wanted to turn her into a Cinderella. I loved that they acknowledged that it would be a Cinderella-type story right away. It was fun to see Evie get the life she deserved!
Bookshop Cinderella is a fun Victorian romance!
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