be wary of a few things that may piss you off a bit, if you're as nitpicky as I am.įor starters, this book is a huge info-dump. However, if you're looking for something fun without it making you think too much, this could be a good candidate.

because holy shit, guys, there are so many stuff here that I can only see happening in a 1 to million chance (unless you guys have a deranged grandma to force her money-hungry, non-remorseful kids and grandkids to go to a really deep hole in Venezuela and mine a diamond, because it's not like that's extremely dangerous for a bunch of pampered brats who never worked for once in their lives. It's a stand-alone that you may want to suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy. Now, don't get me wrong this is NOT a bad book by any means, but in the same breath, it wasn't all that memorable, either. The only difference is, I would rather watch Amazing Race and National Treasure over reading this again. I mean, it's really not hard to find the similarities in pop culture. Family secrets, ancestral history dating back to the founding of the New World, a race around the world to see who would inherit the family's moolah. How to describe this book? Basically, if ever Amazing Race and the National Treasure film had a baby, it would be Inherit Midnight. Is Avery willing to risk both her heart and her life to claim the grand prize? Treacherous turns in the competition serve as brutal reminders that only one person can win it all.

As the game progresses, Avery finds herself drawn to him-even though she isn't quite sure she can trust him. Riley is the charming son of Grandmother VanDemere's lawyer. He'll do anything to win, even if it means turning on his own children.

Marshall might be Avery's uncle by blood, but there's no love lost between them. and discover the truth about her long-lost mother. As the black sheep of the VanDemere clan-the illegitimate daughter, sent away to boarding school-she'd love to use that prize money to run away from the family who ostracized her. Seventeen-year-old Avery VanDemere's ridiculously wealthy grandmother has decided to leave the family fortune to the relative who proves him or herself worthiest-by solving puzzles and riddles on a whirlwind race around the globe.įor Avery, the contest offers a chance to escape.

Inherit midnight by kate kae myers