The Heiress

Thank you to St. Martin's Press and Netgalley for an arc!

The Heiress is the story of The McTavishes, specifically Camden & Ruby McTavish. Ruby is the McTavish matriarch who is known in the area for having been kidnapped as a child and miraculously returning back home. That wasn't all though as all of her husbands passed away to various accidents and incidents. Camden has not been back to the estate in 10 years - and is called to come home. Camden has to unravel his own history with Ashby House as well as the motivations of her relatives who so desperately want every penny of of the McTavish estate.

We are able to learn about Ruby through letters and learn about Camden and Jules through their point of views. Hawkins did an excellent job of writing a book I didn't want to put down. It was such a good time trying to figure out what would happen next.

This was a hard one to rate. I absolutely LOVED Ruby's chapters following around “Mrs. Killmore” as she met and killed her previous husbands. It was all very fascinating and very Evelyn Hugo. The alternating chapters of Jules and Camden were not nearly as good and I kept waiting for the next Ruby chapter. I found the stolen baby/alternate family plot line confusing and by the end I had no idea what was happening. if the book was all Ruby, it would be a new all time fav, but it wasn't quite there. 

This was my first Rachel Hawkins book and I can completely see why everyone loves this author so much! Unfortunately, this was just a middle of the road thriller to me. I was super interested in the letters that were sprinkled throughout the story and it was cool how it all lined up with what was happening in the main story. I think this mostly fell flatly for me because I guessed the plot twist that happens in the last chapter or two in the very beginning. I loved the family dynamic even though I hated every single one of the characters and I thought it was interesting that they all had so much personality without having very much page time.






Thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for providing me with an eBook copy to review