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This was such a good book. I audiobooked it and I was hooked from the opening. It was giving a touch of Inheritance Games and Knives Out. I loved the creepy games in the story. I liked how she had to puzzle her way out of the terror. I would have loved to learn more about the list of missing girls and find out more about them but Steadman did it right. There was just enough mystery that I could fill in the gaps. I liked how Harriet was self assured from the start. I feel like a lot of books I read have main characters who compare themselves to the other women in stories and look down on themselves. Harriet knew who she was on page 2 and kept her head high. I liked the juxtaposition of her as an orphan yet making a name in her own right and the old world money that Edwards family had. Robert was a good character as well. I kept waiting on the women to turn on her and the twist at the end was well done. If I didn’t have things to do yesterday I would have finished the book in one sitting.

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emotional mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This was really just fine. Nothing about it was bad, but nothing about it blew me away. It gave me a lot of The Invitation vibes and I didn’t even see that movie… but truly this book felt just like the previews of that movie and also Ready or Not.

There was a cheeky little twist at the end that I didn’t see coming, but I think I was too put off by the pacing of the book for that twist to do much of anything for me. The book is called The Family Game, we new a GAME was coming, but in the end the actual game was just a blip in the book and I would have loved for that to have been drawn out more and more suspenseful. There was just too much build up in my opinion.

With that said, it was an entertaining read so I don’t want to be too harsh about it, but I’m still grumpy about all the little plot lines that were kind of pointlessly introduced that we never got resolutions too. It just felt very messy and unfinished at the end.

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