Review: A Deadly Inheritance by Kelley Armstrong

A Deadly Inheritance

After discovering she’s an heiress to a billion-dollar corporation, seventeen-year-old Liliana finds herself at a new boarding school where she must navigate secret societies and a deadly competition. 

In the wake of her mother’s death, Liliana Chamberlain’s estranged (and very wealthy) grandparents swoop in. Or their lawyer does. Her grandparents aren’t ready to meet her, but they want her to have the life her mother walked away from, starting with Westwood Academy, the elite boarding school her mother attended. It should be a Cinderella dream come true, but Lili has serious misgivings. Yet she doesn’t have a choice, being under eighteen and dead broke.

Westwood Academy is a school of secrets as well as intriguing classmates, including Hollywood golden boy Theo Dubois and the mysterious Maddox Moreno. As she gets to know them all, Lili realizes there’s more to the school than elite-level networking. Something deadly.

For the new girl at school, investigating the deaths of past students — including Maddox’s own sister — is a very dangerous game. Do those deaths have something to do with why her mother fled Westdale at the cost of her inheritance?

When a fun night out turns bloody, Theo is the prime suspect, and Liliana must race against time to connect the past with the present and discover the truth behind her inheritance.

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What I thought about A Deadly Inheritance

Liliana Chamberlain gets more than she bargained for when she finds out she is an heiress and must learn about a whole new lifestyle. She is shipped off to Westwood Academy, the best of the best, to be prepared for some high powered career. Except there are some odd things going on at the academy and Liliana is determined to get to the root of it all, no matter what.

At the academy, Liliana becomes friends with Theo and Maddox, the only people she trusts. These two guys are terrific and I loved the how their relationship with Liliana developed! That was probably my favorite part of this story.

While a little slow for my taste, I thought the characters were interesting and the story, although at times out there, was interesting enough to keep me reading to the end. I enjoy a YA every now and then, and this one satisfied my craving.