About This Book:
A New York Times bestselling series! The Inheritance Games and One of Us is Lying for middle grade — an unforgettable mystery featuring a secret society, a mysterious island, and dangerous family secrets.
The game starts now. Jack and Weatherby―the newest members of Last Heir, the most powerful secret society in the world―have landed at an exclusive prep school in the Swiss Alps, ready to win big.
Last Heir is offering the chance of a lifetime: millions of dollars, a private island, and a powerful spot in the society’s inner circle. Not everyone has the same reasons for playing, but with money, power, and influence up for grabs, everyone wants to win. Too bad they’re not all playing by the same rules.
New York Times bestselling author Alyson Gerber crafts an explosive, high-octane mystery that will immerse readers in a world of dangerous riddles, friendship and betrayal, and an addictive search for the truth.
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
High Stakes Competition in Switzerland
Having gotten into the Last Heir Society (an anagram for Liar’s Club), Jack, Weatherby, and the others are in the society’s Alpine Bunker in St. Moritz with the 18 new members. They are invited to participate in la Victoir garment to choose a new member of the voting council, and there can only be one winner of the scavenger hunt. This winner also gets 5 million Swiss francs a year, a private jet, and some islands. Cressida Held (who is Axton’s mother) talks to Weatherby alone, and she is soon even more motivated to participate. There is sledding, murder, kidnapping, puzzles, anagrams galore, and lots of in fighting and treachery. But it’s not over yet. The ending (which I do not want to spoil) leaves this open for yet another book.
Good Points
Jack and Weatherby are such good friends that they are distressed by their family’s lack of cooperation, and the feud wears on them. It’s fascinating to be thrown into their elite boarding school environment and see how the dynamics play out. A competition throws in yet another level of tension and intrigue, and the stakes are high!
I loved the first book, and I can see this being popular with readers who like clue oriented mysteries and puzzles like the ones in Currie’s The Mystery of the Locked Room or Reese’s Puzzle heart.
