The Inheritance Games

How it reads

The Inheritance Games is young adult (young-adult mystery thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in a big city setting, in the present day, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are secrets, family and class and society. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It opens a series. It ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book ready. At 384 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.