I found that the stakes were too high so the climax of the story fell a bit flat. Overall, I love Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ novels, but this one fell short of my expectations. Maybe it’s just because it had been so long since I read the first book, but I thought that it was much better than this one. I feel like we could have had a better story if Tess stuck to fixing her classmates scandals instead. and Tess is supposed to fix scandals for their kids, but Tess winds up getting too involved with Ivy’s work. Ivy is supposed to make scandals disappear for important political people of Washington D.C. I love Tess and Ivy, but I feel like this story didn’t do these characters justice. I wanted more character development, but I got all action. They all seem really interesting, but we don’t get the chance to really get to know them. I wanted to get to know the characters better. The scenes should have felt packed with adrenaline, but since the stakes were so high throughout the whole book the climax of the book didn’t feel like it packed any more tension than the rest of the story. I found the stakes to be a little too high, so high that the tension didn’t feel like it matched the story. I whipped right through this book, but found myself disappointed as it didn’t live up to my expectations. The Long Game was super fast paced and the stakes were higher than ever. I asked for it for my birthday and am finally able to return to the series that started my love of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ writing. I had tried to get this sequel from libraries after it finally came out, but they didn’t have it. There is this emotionally manipulative aspect to it that made it clear Jennifer Lynn Barnes studied psychology and that background made her novels amazing.

Since then I have read a bunch of her novels and loved them all, but The Fixer was one of my favorites. The Fixer was the first Jennifer Lynn Barnes book that I had ever read, but after reading it I knew that I needed to return to this author. Tess knows better than most that power is currency in D.C., but she’s about to discover firsthand that power always comes with a price. Meanwhile, Tess’s guardian has also taken on an impossible case, as a terrorist attack calls into doubt who can-and cannot-be trusted on Capitol Hill. But when the candidates are children of politicians, even a high school election can involve life-shattering secrets. When Tess is asked to run a classmate’s campaign for student council, she agrees. But Tess has another legacy, too, one that involves power and the making of political dynasties. The Kendricks help make the problems of the Washington elite disappear…but some secrets won’t stay buried.įor Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington, D.C., fixing runs in the family.

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