Finishing a series always makes me feel very accomplished. I will admit that I was a little hesitant to get into this book, but here we are. Let’s hop into my review for The Final Gambit!
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Quick Synopsis
Avery’s fortune, life, and loves are on the line in the game that everyone will be talking about.
About The Final Gambit
Title: The Final Gambit
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Rating: 3.5 Stars
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Date Published: 30 August 2022
Goodreads Description: 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.
Secrets upon secrets. Riddles upon riddles. In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake—and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning.
I received a review copy from Penguin Random House SA. All opinions are my own.
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The Final Gambit Review
Look I know I said that I wasn’t excited about this book. I thought that this was meant to be a duology, and after how convoluted The Hawthorne Legacy was, I didn’t have high hopes for The Final Gambit.
But I got really into it. The writing is very addictive, and the short chapters made me feel very accomplished when I finished them. The plot felt more cohesive and less convoluted than in the second book.
As for the characters, they didn’t annoy me as much as they did in The Hawthorne Legacy. Avery is much more proactive in this book, but Jameson and Greyson seem to take a few steps back. We don’t see enough of Xander and Nash, and Max and Libby are basically not necessary for the plot. My biggest complaint of this series is that there are way too many characters with convoluted relationships to each other.
The ending also felt very anticlimactic for me, especially considering the action we got in the second book. Overall this was a good series. If you enjoyed The Inheritance Games, this is a pretty decent ending.
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