In The Brothers Hawthorne, Jameson and Grayson Hawthorne have a new game to play. This newest installment in The Inheritance Games series follows the Hawthorne brothers instead of Avery Grambs and their lives are only going to get more twisted.
This book switches from Jameson and Grayson Hawthorne’s points of view rather than being in Avery’s perspective. The brothers each have their own game to play this time. Jameson is challenged by his biological father to win their ancestral home back, Vantage, while playing a dangerous game. Grayson discovers his biological twin sisters and is faced with hard decisions when he finds out a terrible secret.
This book had a much different feel than the other books in the series, partly because it wasn’t written in first person, so I wasn’t able to see much of the characters’ inner monologues. I did enjoy the two separate storylines though, and I wasn’t bored. The Inheritance Games series in general has shorter chapters than most books I’ve read, so every couple of pages, the point of view switches. This can get a little disorienting, especially if it happens in the middle of an action scene, but it didn’t mess me up too much. It’s just a different flow from the rest of the books.
I liked Grayson’s story better, but I am a bigger Grayson than Jameson fan. Grayson’s mystery had more moving parts to it and I had fun meeting the new characters introduced. Parts of Jameson’s mystery were shocking, but I did guess the big secret revealed at the end through the clues given.
One thing that bothered me was the fact that I didn’t learn much more about the Hawthorne family than what the previous books said. I expected to learn more about the legacy of the Hawthornes and what their grandfather, Tobias Hawthorne, did with his life. I wanted this book to tell me more about them, but it didn’t, so I was disappointed. I did learn a little bit more about Grayson and Jameson, but nothing about the rest of their family.
Overall, I’d give the book 3.75 out of 5 stars. I liked the story and the mysteries even though it was completely different from what I expected. I was engaged all of the time, even when something was happening that I didn’t particularly like. If you liked the rest of The Inheritance Games series, I would recommend you read this, unless you hate Jameson and Grayson (but why would you?).