Who Does Avery Fall For In The Inheritance Games?

I just want to give a huge shoutout to Libby. While everyone was running around trying to solve riddles to save each other’s lives, Libby was just there for her sister the whole time. Her ending was really sweet. She got to pursue her own dreams and she was funded by the Hawthorne wealth, but she wasn’t controlled by them. That ending was really low-key the best. It was cool because it showed the normal life that Avery was trying to protect. And Avery’s first victory was Libby’s happiness. Seeing Libby thrive in the epilogue was really cool and the best part of the story, because sometimes the best part of a story is a side character who just gets to be happy.

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Keeping 13 is an absolute journey of two books and I feel as though I have lived the lifetime of Shannon and Johnny by the end of it. The ending of them solidly together in all of their wonderfulness feels like a huge gift to both of them and to us readers after everything that they have been put through. All of the drama and hell that they have gone through doesn’t need to culminate in some last minute misunderstanding or breakup that can be totally avoided and is totally unnecessary. I felt as though Shannon chose Johnny and he chose her, every single day and that is what the author portrayed in the final chapter – their active choice to each other and to building their happy life together. It is hopeful and empowering and I closed the book with a huge smile on my face, feeling that they were going to be more than okay, they were going to thrive.

Of course, Naruto has inherited the signature move of his father, the Rasengan. However, the real thing that his father Minato has inherited to Naruto is something much deeper. The genius Minato was able to transform his weaknesses into his strengths on the fly. And so too does Naruto. Initially, in order to compensate for his lack of chakra control, he was able to use his Shadow Clones. In terms of fighting style, Naruto fights with brute force while his father fights with speed. Both end up overwhelming their opponents by being unpredictable in their movements. And of course, the power of the Nine-Tails is obvious. But what was truly inherited to Naruto was the faith that Minato had in him to be able to deal with it.

The story is perfect for family reading. If you have younger kids (10+), read it aloud to them. You can read the more complex sections together and then explain the politics behind them. You can also discuss the more mature themes in the book as you read them. My dad and I read the original Pern novels together when I was younger, and that is one of my favorite memories of time spent with him. “The Inheritance” is the perfect opportunity for “The Inheritance” to become one of your favorite memories with your children as well. The chapters are long enough to read nightly, and the world that Anne creates is rich enough to spark many conversations and thoughts about the story and its characters. So don’t shy away from reading “The Inheritance” because of the age recommendation of the book. Reading ‘The Inheritance’ with children of different ages can be a wonderful experience. They can enjoy the adventure, whilst parents can indulge in the richness of detail and complexity of politics and themes.

Note that even the ‘good’ characters have to take lives in order to achieve their goals. This is especially visible in scenes where Aelin burns the guards in the desert, kills the overseer in the salt mines, or where Chaol kills his own father. His actions are by no means noble, and these deaths are left to their implications. Manon killed her own grandmother, Dorian destroyed his own father – both were necessary, according to the story, but both are left as stains on the characters who committed them. The psychological cost of killing is left visible, even when the victim was a villain. Survival in Maas’s world requires getting your hands dirty, and it changes you.

I preferred Peeta to Katniss’ other love interest, Gale. Gale was too obsessed with violence. Peeta, on the other hand, showed his love for Katniss by baking her bread and remembering her favorite colors. Plus, he understood her silence. Theirs was a true love story that was developed throughout the long series of traumatic events. The only way their story could have ended was for the two of them to promise each other to stay grounded in the meadow. It was the only ending that made sense, and proved that some bonds cannot be broken even by the cruel Capitol.

A different view of it is that Aelin ends up with the man who loves her as Aelin first, not as Celaena. This is different from Chaol who loved Celaena the assassin and not really the woman that Celaena masked as being. He never saw really who Celaena was beneath the surface. Rowan met her when Celaena was destroyed and she was the queen Aelin, battered, tired, angry, hurting. He knew her true name before he even fell for her and that he had to deal with the raw queen beneath the mask of Celaena was difficult. Yet somehow their very magical bond feels more real and right for her true self than it ever did with Chaol who was deceived by the greatest lie of all.

As for the sheer number of pages, each book is long enough to be the backdrop to your life for a few months, and many memorable moments are tied to where you were when you read them because you spent so long there. I read 300 pages of ‘Brisingr’ while I was dying of the flu, for example. I read them in one day.

I think one of the most entertaining CEO forced-into-marriage-for-inheritance storylines is that of the couple who starts off hating each other. Lauren Layne wrote a really fun book called “The Prenup” (Lauren Layne writes a lot of fun books). The leads are both lawyers, so their initial bickering is full of cute little pettiness like leaving mean notes on each other’s post-it notes. But it all transitions to a sweet inheritance tale when the CEO grandfather of one of the leads sets up the two of them to inherit a fortune if they just get married and stay married for a long time, and it takes them a while to actually start to like each other. Novels like The CEO’s Substitute Wife and Married by Monday are webnovels that primarily fall under the melodrama category. This means much of the plot can be quite over-the-top at times, but The CEO’s Substitute Wife works because the male lead is often mean to the female lead due to him hiding the pain of past events. In addition to that, the two work to try and bring down each other’s armor and earn each other’s trust and affection. The other novella is Married by Monday which is a fairly lighthearted story. The main characters start off fake marrying each other by Monday, but by the end they realize that they have fallen in love. It is also an inheritance novel, though an unusual one. The conditions left by the female lead’s eccentric aunt are pretty quirky. This is another reason why the forced marriage novels work so well. They combine high stakes and intimacy. The two characters are fighting to earn the fortune that the other is trying to claim, but they are also fighting to earn each other’s love.