Only Michael and Charlie are likely to engage readers’ sympathies, while Tori's unpleasantness makes it hard to see why Michael and Lucas are so fixated on her.
Like Holden Caulfield, Tori is looking for something that isn’t phony, but while the story more or less achieves its goal of evoking a modern-day, English The Catcher in the Rye, it’s still not very engaging. But when Solitaire's pranks cross lines and people start getting hurt, Tori will be forced to discover if the world has anything good in it.
Tori's too trapped in her head, too convinced the whole world sucks, to care about Michael's overtures of friendship or the arrival at her school of an old friend, Lucas. When a mysterious blog called Solitaire starts triggering pranks at her school, Tori isn't too interested, even if strange new boy Michael Holden tries to make her be. About the only thing she cares about is her brother Charlie, who's recovering from an eating disorder. Tori Spring is a disaffected teenager: She can almost never finish a film in one sitting, she's smart but can't care about school anymore, and she dislikes her friends but is unwilling to forgo their company. This debut novel evokes a classic to present a girl searching for something true. Part The Westing Game, part We Were Liars, completely entertaining. The main characters are White one brown-skinned Hawthorne brother describes himself as multiracial. To help her solve the riddles, Avery must turn to the Hawthorne brothers even if there’s some romantic interest at play-and even if they’re the ones who want her dead.
Short, snappy chapters supply nonstop momentum with red herrings, more family secrets, and even attempts on her life. To understand her role in the billionaire’s final game and why she’s the recipient of his inheritance, she must piece together clues left in his massive estate filled with hidden chambers. This whirlwind story gains even more intensity when Avery learns that Hawthorne was a master of games and manipulation. She must, however, abide by one condition: living for a full year with the snubbed Hawthorne family-a family that includes the billionaire’s four grandsons, young adult brothers who share a mother but have different fathers. The very next day she is on a plane to Hawthorne House, a mansion in Texas, where she discovers she’s the beneficiary of billionaire Tobias Hawthorne’s fortune. One day Avery-with her mother dead, her father missing for years, and her guardian half sister on the rebound with her abusive boyfriend-is living out of her car. A teen must solve a multilayered puzzle to find out why she’s the recipient of a billionaire’s inheritance.
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