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The Gilded Blade

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.8/ 5 · Incredible

The Gilded Blade, Jennifer Lynn Barnes's finale to The Grandest Game trilogy and the wider Inheritance Games saga, is a young adult mystery built on layered riddles and centuries-old secrets. The Hawthornes and their allies chase answers from Texas to Prague to London, and the payoffs reach back to book one.

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