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The Inheritance Games is a Mystery Fiction-thriller Young Adult Literature book series by author Jennifer Lynn Barnes with the first book from which the series gets its name from is released on September 1st 2020. The second book, The Hawthorne Legacy was released a year later on September 7th 2021.Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man's touch - and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions.Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he's determined to take her down. His brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather's last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Caught in a world of wealth and privilege, with danger around every turn, Avery will have to play the game herself just to survive… | |
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Delighting in Riddles | |
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Delighting in Riddles: Part of Tobias' being a Bunny-Ears Lawyer Eccentric Billionaire was love of games, challenges, and riddles. His Big Fancy House is a labyrinth of rooms filled with hidden compartments and secret passage ways and every Saturday he have some game for grandsons to compete with each other in. Jameson, one of said grandsons, believes that's what Avery is: his grandfather's last riddle to solve. He was also a big fan of anagrams and supposedly one of the reasons he chose Avery as his heir.note Her full name, Avery Kylie Grambs, can be rearranged as "a very risky gamble" of Tobias' catchphrases. | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Skye can be this with her sons such as when deliberately does this by telling embarrassing stories about them as child or insisting having a conversation with Jameson and Avery while in the bath. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Avery's life becomes exactly as complicated after inheriting Tobias' money as one would if she had won the lottery which Alisha, her new lawyer, points out. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: Avery quickly finds out that the Hawthorne family isn't a happy one. Zara feels like the least loved out of all of Tobias's children, Skye turns out to be quite selfish and not above murder and likes to tease her family with the fact that, as the mother of Tobias's beloved grandchildren she was expected to get the biggest payout. Jameson and Grayson's relationship was ruined by the death of the girl they were both in love with, it turns out that Tobias pressured the Laughlin grandparents' first daughter to give up her child because he was the result of a teen pregnancy and then adopted him without telling the Laughlins, associates who have lived with and worked for them for long enough that they're seen as family. The Laughlins themselves also have issues, as their daughter Emily is dead by the time the first book starts and her sister Rebecca not only blames herself for it but is still reeling from the fact that Emily was her parents' clear favorite and the center of attention. Also, Nash's biological father was a man Zara was in love with, adding to the tension between Skye and Zara. | |
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On One Condition: Tobias Hawthorne's one stipulation for Avery receiving her inheritance is that she must live in Hawthorne House (the family home) for one year. Which is isn't too bad except for the small matter of having to move to a completely different state and she has live with the family Tobias essentially disowned to boot, as she's only allowed to kick them out if she can prove they're trying to physically harm her. | |
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The Beard | |
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The Beard: Thea and Xander pretended to be in a relationship to hide the fact that Thea was actually dating Rebecca. | |
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Family of Choice: When people start speculating that Tobias Hawthorne may secretly be Avery's father, her paternal half-sister Libby gets upset saying that they may not even be half related to each other. Avery makes it clear that no matter what their actual relationship is, Libby was the one there for her and she's always her sister no matter what. | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: Avery's plans for the future is to learn statistical analysis in college which is the most employable field there is. Her passion is to travel the world and when she arrives at her new school she laps up the chances they offer to study abroad. | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing | |
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Skye Hawthorne initially presents herself as a hippy-dippy type who is nice to Avery when she first arrives. Once the contents of the will are revealed, she doesn’t become outright cruel but does become very passive aggressive. She then goes further and lets Libby's abusive boyfriend onto the estate as a plan to use him to murder Avery to exploit a Loophole Excuse in the will's probate. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Avery's father is drunk whose last location at the beginning of the book was in a seedy motel somewhere. He left raising Avery to her older sister and wasn't a part of her life... until she inherits a lot of money and he suddenly wants to become her guardian again. The fathers of Nash, Grayson, Jameson and Xander are not present in their lives. Skye didn't tell any of their fathers she was pregnant, but she points out that with the media attention their family gets, they should be able to figure it out. She's right when it comes to Grayson's father. He knew all along Grayson was his son, but just didn't want anything to do with him. However, Nash's father was sent away to one of the family's Costa Rica properties, and Tobias Hawthorne faked a DNA test to keep Xander's father from getting custody. | |
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Dead Guy Junior: Avery Kylie Grambs' second name was chosen in honor of her late aunt Kaylie Rooney. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Oren was the head of Tobias Hawthorne’s security and personal bodyguard who saved the man’s life on several occasions. He immediately takes up the job as Avery's not out of a contract because his letter from Hawthorne asked him to. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Avery makes it to the end of the year and defeats the challenges to her safety and her inheritance, and decides to give the bulk of her fortune to charity. However, Toby is forced to return to the rich life he feels he doesn't deserve and live as the replacement son of his father's nemesis, while Eve turns out to be an enemy and never learns how to be her own person. | |
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Fiction 500: Tobias Hawthorne was a philanthropist who got started in oil before going on to become one of the richest men in the country and the richest man in the state of Texas. Technically this makes Avery this now too as his heir to the vast majority of the Hawthorne fortune. | |
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Love Dodecahedron: Where do we start? Zara cheated on her first husband with Jake Nash and cheated on her second husband with Oren. Her sister Skye also slept with Jake, which resulted in the birth of her eldest son Nash. Skye also had relationships with Sheffield Grayson (which resulted in the birth of Grayson Hawthorne) Jameson's unknown father, Isaiah Alexander (Xander's father) and Ricky Grambs. Ricky previously had relationships with Libby's mother and Avery's mother, Hannah/"Sarah". Before she met Ricky, Hannah was in a relationship with Toby Hawthorne. Toby slept with a lot of different girls and had a daughter named Eve with one of then, even though she was already married. Nash Hawthorne was in relationship with Alisa and later develops feelings for Libby who was dating Drake. Grayson and Jameson both loved Emily and later they both fall in love with Avery. Grayson also develops feelings for Eve, but it turns out she was just manipulating him. Xander had a fake relationship with Thea, who was actually dating Rebecca. He later has a thing with Avery's friend Max. | |
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Secretly Dying: Something that both Avery's mother and Tobias Hawthorne had in common regards to their family, as neither party knew until days before to the day of them dying. | |
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Friendless Background: Downplayed. Avery is a bit of loner, although she does have a friend in Max, and her lack of other friends is more out of practicality than either preference or ostracism as she has no time to hang out with friends between her part-time job and studying. Also downplayed for Rebecca Laughlin, who starts off the story with no friends, but it's implied this is because she has been avoiding people since the death of her sister and that she's well-liked with a history of having friends before. | |
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Domestic Abuse: Drake, Libby's on-again-off-again boyfriend who Avery detests and has only just stayed on this line of being physically abusive at the start of the story. When he finds out about Avery's inheritance he, in this order: acts like an Entitled Bastard making plans to spend the fortune, hits Libby when she explains the money is not theirs i.e. his to spend, then goes to the press and implies Avery had an inappropriate relationship with Tobias Hawthorne. Then there's the matter of him trying to kill Avery (twice) on Skye Hawthorne's orders for money, only to be caught, arrested, and tries to pin the blame on Libby. Luckily plenty of evidence, including his own felony record, easily disproves this. | |
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It's All My Fault: The reason for the strained relationship between Jameson and Grayson, along with the effect on Rebecca and Thea's relationship and their (implied) break-up in regards to Emily's death. While each of them blames one of the others for their death, it's really to hide their own guilt. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Tobias Hawthorne was the richest man in Texas with a billion dollar empire which includes multiple charities. He was also a bit of loon as he added a new room to his already Big Fancy House every year, designed in a way that calling it a maze would an Understatement. | |
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Sequel Hook: The final chapter and epilogue of the book reveals that Tobias Hawthorne has been tracking Avery since she was born while Xander is given the mission to locate his long-though dead uncle Tobias Hawthorne II. | |
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Missing Mom: Avery's mother died of a terminal illness before the start of the series. | |
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In-Series Nickname: Tobias Hawthorne II goes by Toby, Alexander is always called Xander by everyone and Jameson and Grayson are often called Jamie and Gray. Jameson calls Avery Heiress, because she inherited the Hawthorne fortune. | |
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It's the Journey That Counts | |
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It's the Journey That Counts: Invoked. Even before Toby's apparent death, Tobias had no intention of giving his children his billions. The true meaning behind the will was a puzzle that his kids would only be able to figure out by cooperating. He only reworked it to include a hunt for Toby after he figured out that Toby had faked his death. He was convinced that his wealth was the reason for his family having been torn apart and concocted the puzzle in his will to try and bring them together. | |
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Smart People Play Chess: Avery's first scene has her beat a homeless man she's friends with at chess making him let her buy him breakfast. At school, she balances getting A's with her after-school job where she weighs the pros-and-cons of sacrificing work (and money) for a 98 when a 92 is just as good. | |
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The Unfavorite: Rebecca feels this way about herself. Her sister Emily was born with a health condition that caused her family to constantly dote on her, and she was the center of attention for the Hawthorne boys as well. | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Avery's first scene of the book, literally the first scene of the book, has her beating a homeless man at chess and winning a bet, which is for him to let Avery buy him breakfast. | |
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Driving Question: The first book centers on this: Why did Tobias Hawthorne leave a seemingly random teenage girl who never even heard of him, his entire family fortune. Most of the answers are answered only for more be raised, so sit back as this can be complicated: The year before Emily Laughlin, who was a Childhood Friend of the Hawthornes died, and it created a massive strain on his grandsons' relationship with each other. Secretly Dying, he arranges one final posthumous riddle hunt designed to bring the boys together and mend their relationship with why he choose Avery being to invoke this trope to get them to continue playing. The reason why he chose Avery was apparently because he met her as a child and learned her full name as an anagram that spelled his favorite catchphrasenote A very risky gamble... and her birthday was the same day Emily died. Then the Sequel Hook shows that Tobias has been following Avery her whole life and that, perhaps or not by sheer coincidence, has been friends with a homeless man named Harry may be Tobias Hawthorne II...also known as Tobias senior's long-thought-dead oldest son. | |
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Broken Pedestal: Throughout the series, the Hawthorne grandchildren learn their beloved grandfather wasn't always the good man they thought he was. He could very unscrupulous in business matters, and he drove off Nash and Xander's fathers, who actually did want to raise their children, because he wanted to keep all his grandsons' affection for himself. | |
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Truth in Television: In book two Avery finds out that she has quite a few haters who are sending her online death threats and calling her a horrible person for not wanting to welcome her deadbeat dad back into her life. This is eerily similar to what happened to Meghan Markle, who's estranged father tried to reenter her life after she became betrothed to a member of the British royal family. He was caught staging a photo of looking at pictures of her in a cyber cafe, and the things people said about her before it was revealed that the photos were staged weren't nice. | |
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Sibling Yin-Yang: Zara and Skye are presented like this, apparently splitting their father Tobias' most notable traits between them. Zara is shown to be a no-nonsense business woman while Skye is shown to a free-spirited Open-Minded Parent. Then it's shown that Zara can at least put her personal feelings for Avery aside and try and make the best of the situation while Skye openly resents Avery and tries to have her killed. Grayson is serious, responsible, and a bit uptight. His half-brother Jameson is rebellious, reckless and treats almost everything like a game. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: Skye and Ricky are framed for trying to kill Avery with a bomb in book two after using very manipulative and underhanded tactics to try and take control of the inheritance. Oren suggests that Avery wait until she turns eighteen to reveal the evidence she has of their innocence to the police to make their attempts at taking over her fortune will become pointless. | |
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Take a Third Option: As Avery comes closer to actually inheriting, people have very strong ideas about what she should do with the money. Her lawyers advocate for her to put it in a managed trust, while Grayson thinks she take full control of it and hire financial advisors. In the end, Avery decides to do neither of these things. She puts most of the fortune in a charitable trust which must be used up within five years, so that it can help people as quickly as possible, and keeps a small portion for herself, which she will live on and personally give away to the winners of the Tobias-Hawthorne-esque games she plans to run. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Toby's father is William Blake, the son of Vincent Blake. Vincent was Tobias' former mentor and the Big Bad of the books. | |
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Con Man | |
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Con Woman: What Grayson and his aunt Zara think Avery is, despite her insistence she never even heard of Tobias Hawthorne until after he died and has no idea why he would leave his fortune to her. Grayson at least realizes that Avery was every bit as blindsided by events as them and manage to find common ground. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: Skye and Zara's Insistent Terminology over their brother's disappearance/death and Avery briefly wondering if Tobias Hawthorne Senior faked his death reveals she's Right for the Wrong Reasons when its implied that the homeless man Harry is Tobias Hawthorne II. During a charity gala, Xander reveals that he cashed in his investments he made throughout his childhood at $100 million dollars. The end of the game reveals he's been Tobias' inside man on the game and was participating simply to ensure Jameson and Grayson saw the game out through. | |
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Sibling Triangle | |
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Sibling Triangle: Zara was having an affair with Jake Nash, but her younger sister Skye also slept with him, which resulted in a pregnancy. Grayson and his half-brother Jameson were both on love with Emily Laughlin, who refused to choose between the two of them. Jameson eventually got fed up with her manipulation and broke up with her. Later Jameson and Grayson both fall in love with Avery, but Grayson decides to step aside, because he doesn't want a repeat of what happened with Emily. Avery also firmly decides to avert this once she and Jameson agree that they're actually dating and not just no-strings kissing; if she's with Jameson, then she's with Jameson, and she'll ignore her lingering attraction to Grayson until it dies for good. | |
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Eccentric Millionaire | |
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Eccentric Millionaire: Tobias Hawthorne demonstrated his eccentricity and massive wealth in his home Hawthorne House which is filled to the brim with puzzles and riddles of his own design. There's also the whole "leaving-a-girl-seemingly-and-completely-unrelated-to-his-family-his-entire-fortune" thing that is the premise of the series. | |
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Open-Minded Parent | |
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Zara and Skye are presented like this, apparently splitting their father Tobias' most notable traits between them. Zara is shown to be a no-nonsense business woman while Skye is shown to a free-spirited Open-Minded Parent. Then it's shown that Zara can at least put her personal feelings for Avery aside and try and make the best of the situation while Skye openly resents Avery and tries to have her killed. | |
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Accidental Misnaming | |
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Accidental Misnaming: Skye Hawthorne continually gets Avery's name wrong first as this, then it becomes a kind of Malicious Misnaming after the will is revealed. | |
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419 Scam | |
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419 Scam: What Libby, Avery's older half-sister, thought the letters from the Hawthorne family's lawyers kept sending were, so she threw them out. It took one of the Hawthornes physically showing up to make it clear it that, no, it wasn't a scam. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
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Too Dumb to Live: In book two, Skye teams up with Libby's deadbeat dad, Ricky, to try and file for custody over Avery while she's still a minor and get control of the inheritance that way. His justification is that he's definitely Libby's father and Libby raised Avery, and he might be Avery's biological father. Avery quickly points out that given how he was absent for most of Avery's life they'd have a very hard time finding a sympathetic judge. The main threats they pose are to Avery's public image, as they quickly do a media tour trying to make Ricky out to be a loving father who just wants to mend his relationship with his children, and that if anything were to happen to Avery, as a minor who can't write her own will, Ricky would have a claim to her fortune. This makes it very easy for the true main villain of book two, Grayson's biological father and one of the only survivors of the cabin fire, to frame them for an attempt on Avery's life and kidnap Avery. | |
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Everyone Is Related: Almost all major characters are related to each other in at least one way. Emily's best friend Thea is also the niece of Zahra Hawthorne's second husband. Avery's homeless friend she played chess with turns out to be Toby, Tobias Hawthorne's son. Toby turns out to be adopted. His mother is Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin daughter who was forced to give him up, because she was a teenager when she got pregnant. This makes him Emily and Rebecca's half-brother. Toby's father is William Blake, the son of Vincent Blake. Vincent was Tobias' former mentor and the Big Bad of the books. The teenagers who accidentally died in the fire Toby caused include Kayley Rooney (Avery 's maternal aunt) and Colin, who is the nephew of Grayson's father. Avery's mother had a relationship with Toby. He's not Avery's father, but he still cares about her and acts more like her dad than her biological father does. He does have a daughter named Eve from one of his one-night stands. She's Mellie and Eli's half-sister. | |
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Unexpected Inheritance | |
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Unexpected Inheritance: The whole premise of the first book: Avery is dumbstruck and overwhelmed when a multi-billionaire who she never even heard of leaves her almost his entire fortune. | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name | |
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Calling Parents by Their Name: Skye Hawthorne is, for some reason, insistent on her sons invoking this trope and sometimes doesn't answer them unless its by her first name. | |
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Irony | |
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Irony: Avery and the Hawthornes learn after a bit of Zara's mudslinging and plans to try getting the will annulled that even if she could somehow get it reversed to the original will the family would all be even more screwed as originally they were going to get nothing her nephews included. Tobias formulated both versions of his will to be a puzzle that his children would only be able to piece together by cooperating. It was his way of trying to mend his broken family. They completely missed the point and only learn of the true meaning behind the will because Avery and Tobias's grandsons want to figure out the mystery. If anything, Tobias's children are massive obstacles because of just how much they hate each other and how much they loathe Avery for getting the money they feel should be theirs. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Xander builds replicas of Star Wars droids. | |
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Rags to Riches | |
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Rags to Riches: The premise of the story is that a poor Ordinary High-School Student is suddenly, and without explanation, left almost the entire fortune of a multi-billionaire. The driving mystery being why while reconstructing the idea of suddenly being given a shit-ton of money. | |
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The Nicknamer | |
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The Nicknamer: Jameson has this tendency with Avery, first calling her Mystery Girl, then M.G., Heiress after the reading of the will and one occasion "Cinderella". | |
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Spoiled Brat | |
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Spoiled Brat: Emily Laughlin, introduced as the stunningly beautiful and perfect girl whom Avery could never hope to match up to, was basically given everything she wanted by her parents because she was born with a heart condition. Her sister Rebecca was always made to put Emily first. She was so spoiled that she acted like she could control the relationships of the people around her, getting mad at Rebecca for dating Thea because she felt that Thea and Xander should be together. However, one of her worst acts was cheating on Grayson and Jameson, two men who were in love with her, by dating both of them at the same time. | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance: Eve looks exactly like Emily, her aunt (she's also pretty much the age Emily would be if she had lived, due to Eve's father being much older than his sisters), to the point Grayson actually believes himself to be hallucinating the first time they meet. | |
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You | |
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Daddy Had a Good Reason for Abandoning You: For Xander and Nash. Their fathers were screwed out of custody and pressured into staying away, respectively. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Between Max and Xander in The Hawthorne Legacy. | |
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Chekhov's Gunman | |
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Chekhov's Gunman: Harry, Avery's homeless friend, who she used to play chess with gets an unexpected reward for their friendship when the first and only real use of her new fortune is to arrange a place for him to sleep and breakfast everyday. This seemingly what convinces Grayson that he misjudged her and her intentions fully, helping to form a bond over their desire to use their money and power to help people. Then the final chapter and the epilogue strongly imply that he's none-other-than Tobias Hawthorne II who disappeared over 20 years ago, believed dead. | |
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Didn't See That Coming | |
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Didn't See That Coming: In-Universe. Everyone in the Hawthorne family thought that, no matter what, Grayson Hawthorne, one of Tobias' grandsons, would be the natural choice as his heir to his fortune to the point of being called the Heir Apparent. Naturally they're all blindsided when they're left what's considered a pittance compared to the billions he had left to some unknown girl. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: For the briefest of moments, Avery considers this a possibility based on what she has learned about Tobias Hawthorne near the end of the riddle hunt, seriously considering the possibility he faked his death just for the sake of a game. Turns out she Right for the Wrong Reasons as it's not Tobias Hawthorne Senior whose not really dead but his son Tobias Hawthorne II who disappeared 20 years ago...and is a homeless man named Harry that Avery was friends with. | |
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Insistent Terminology | |
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Skye and Zara's Insistent Terminology over their brother's disappearance/death and Avery briefly wondering if Tobias Hawthorne Senior faked his death reveals she's Right for the Wrong Reasons when its implied that the homeless man Harry is Tobias Hawthorne II. | |
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Daddy DNA Test | |
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Daddy DNA Test: Many people speculate that the reason Tobias Hawthorne left Avery Grambs his fortune, is that she is his secret illegitimate child. A DNA test proves Avery is not a Hawthorne. However, when it turns out Tobias' son Toby was adopted, Avery starts thinking that he may be her father, since it turns out that he had an affair with Avery's mother. He's not. A paternity test proves that Ricky Grambs is her father after all. After Skye gave birth to Xander, Isaiah Alexander realized the child was probably his and sued for custody. Tobias Hawthorne faked a negative paternity to make sure he lost the lawsuit. | |
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The Lost Lenore | |
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The Lost Lenore: Emily Laughlin, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin, was implied to have been very special to Jameson and Grayson Hawthorne so that after sometime she died they're still pained by her memory. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Oren was the head of Tobias Hawthorne’s security and personal bodyguard who saved the man’s life on several occasions. He immediately takes up the job as Avery's not out of a contract because his letter from Hawthorne asked him to. All of the staff at Hawthorne are this either to the family as a whole of in the case of Nash, him personally. None of them like Avery believing her an interloper especially since technically Avery has the power to throw out the Hawthornes out of what was until now their family home. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Toby wanted to burn down the house in Oregon as a fuck you to his father, so he doused the house with gasoline, planning to watch it burn from a distance with his friends. However, lightning struck the house while they were still inside and all his friends died and he was severely injured. | |
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