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The Grandest Game #2
Glorious Rivals
Not yet published
Expected 29 Jul 25Millions, hearts, and lives are on the line in this heart-stopping sequel to The Grandest Game by #1 bestselling author Jennifer Lynn Barnes.
Seven players arrived on Hawthorne Island, each with their own secrets and motivations to win the Grandest Game. Millions are at stake, but so are hearts—and lives. The players now must race to win the game, solve myriad mysteries, and survive the twists and turns of Glorious Rivals.
The stakes get higher, the game gets twistier, and everything heats up in this newest installment in the TikTok sensation Inheritance Games Saga.
Seven players arrived on Hawthorne Island, each with their own secrets and motivations to win the Grandest Game. Millions are at stake, but so are hearts—and lives. The players now must race to win the game, solve myriad mysteries, and survive the twists and turns of Glorious Rivals.
The stakes get higher, the game gets twistier, and everything heats up in this newest installment in the TikTok sensation Inheritance Games Saga.
432 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication July 29, 2025
37k people want to read
About the author
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
54books46.2kfollowersJennifer Lynn Barnes (who mostly goes by Jen) was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She has been, in turn, a competitive cheerleader, a volleyball player, a dancer, a debutante, a primate cognition researcher, a teen model, a comic book geek, and a lemur aficionado. She's been writing for as long as she can remember, finished her first full book (which she now refers to as a "practice book" and which none of you will ever see) when she was still in high school, and then wrote Golden the summer after her freshman year in college, when she was nineteen.
Jen graduated high school in 2002, and from Yale University with a degree in cognitive science (the study of the brain and thought) in May of 2006. She'll be spending the 2006-2007 school year abroad, doing autism research at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
Jen graduated high school in 2002, and from Yale University with a degree in cognitive science (the study of the brain and thought) in May of 2006. She'll be spending the 2006-2007 school year abroad, doing autism research at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
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March 22, 2025girl we don't need another one
edit: dear jennifer lynn barnes fans, please put down your pitchforks. im so truly sorry for upsetting the cult, apology video (with tears) coming at 5pm est tomorrow xx
edit 2: friendly reminder that MESSAGING ME over this is WEIRD and uncalled for and in the real world u cant solve ur problems by dm'ing someone u disagree with !! thank u for ur time 💋💋
edit: dear jennifer lynn barnes fans, please put down your pitchforks. im so truly sorry for upsetting the cult, apology video (with tears) coming at 5pm est tomorrow xx
edit 2: friendly reminder that MESSAGING ME over this is WEIRD and uncalled for and in the real world u cant solve ur problems by dm'ing someone u disagree with !! thank u for ur time 💋💋
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April 7, 2025girl how many books are too many books.
pls get over it
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July 30, 2024idc about what everyone says im so so so happy jennifer keeps writing these books bc i might die without these characters 😁
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July 22, 2024when you’re in a milking competition but your opponent is jennifer lynn barnes and her obsession with the inheritance games series
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December 11, 2024OMG THE FINAL COVER I'M LITERALLY SHAKING!! Dare I say the most glorious one yet 😉😉
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After the ending of The Grandest Game OMG I NEED THIS NOW 😱😱
edit: all disrespectful comments will be deleted, so please don't even bother
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FREAKING OBSESSED WITH THE TITLE 😩😩 I NEED THIS AND THE GRANDEST GAME HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET 🥹🥹 Pls just give us more romance and we'll be happy 🫠🫠
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After the ending of The Grandest Game OMG I NEED THIS NOW 😱😱
edit: all disrespectful comments will be deleted, so please don't even bother
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FREAKING OBSESSED WITH THE TITLE 😩😩 I NEED THIS AND THE GRANDEST GAME HASN'T EVEN BEEN RELEASED YET 🥹🥹 Pls just give us more romance and we'll be happy 🫠🫠
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July 22, 2024wait.. ANOTHER ONE? 😭 a full length novel, ur joking. im still gonna eat it up tho this better be about grayson
July 30, 2024
why are y'all so hating on her man she litr explained there's going to be an entire trilogy for the grandest game??? And she's a writer ofc she's gonna write new books 😭??
AND SAYING SHES MILKING THE SERIES IS INSANE BCUZ EVERY SINGLE BOOK IS SO DIFFERENT WITH A DIFFERENT PLOT EVERYTIME AND NEW CHARACTERS??? THE HATE IS SO FORCED YALL R DUMBFUCKS
AND SAYING SHES MILKING THE SERIES IS INSANE BCUZ EVERY SINGLE BOOK IS SO DIFFERENT WITH A DIFFERENT PLOT EVERYTIME AND NEW CHARACTERS??? THE HATE IS SO FORCED YALL R DUMBFUCKS
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March 23, 2025girl dinner 2025.
#graysonsbook (i don't want to see no averyjameson content, i couldn’t care less 😭)
#graysonsbook (i don't want to see no averyjameson content, i couldn’t care less 😭)
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July 25, 2024you’re joking.. there’s more
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July 24, 2024omg please stop already
July 20, 2024
praying this has a joint averyjameson pov
July 22, 2024
this is the greatest thing to have happened to me
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July 22, 2024THEY JUST KEEP COMING???
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July 22, 2024high amount of car accidents have just been recorded all around the world when this was added to goodreads, coincidence? i think NOT
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August 1, 2024**Spoiler if haven't read The Grandest Games**
Stop!!! OMG The ending of the first book blew me. WHAT HAPPENED TO GIGI!!!! And also not me loving the Rivalry with Rohan and Savannah. But also not me hating Savannah so much cause her father was a psychopath.
.𖥔 ݁ ˖� � 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟏 ★★★★.𝟗𝟓. � �.𖥔 ݁ ˖
.𖥔 ݁ ˖� � 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝟐 {𝐭𝐛𝐫}� �.𖥔 ݁ ˖
Stop!!! OMG The ending of the first book blew me. WHAT HAPPENED TO GIGI!!!! And also not me loving the Rivalry with Rohan and Savannah. But also not me hating Savannah so much cause her father was a psychopath.
.𖥔 ݁ ˖� � 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐆𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝟏 ★★★★.𝟗𝟓. � �.𖥔 ݁ ˖
.𖥔 ݁ ˖� � 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝟐 {𝐭𝐛𝐫}� �.𖥔 ݁ ˖
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January 18, 2025Team Gigi and Mimosa
I'm going to read a new Inheritance Games book every year until I'm 50. Not that I complain. 💜
I'm going to read a new Inheritance Games book every year until I'm 50. Not that I complain. 💜
Shelved as 'not-yet-released'
July 25, 2024this series can just keep going and i'll just keep buying i don't care
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November 22, 2024� added to tbr - 11/22/2024 � � glorious rivals
THE COVERRRRRRR AHHHHHHHHHH 🤭🤭 miss barnes literally ALWAYS eats like hello??
and please, if these characters don't get a happy ending i will cry.
THE COVERRRRRRR AHHHHHHHHHH 🤭🤭 miss barnes literally ALWAYS eats like hello??
and please, if these characters don't get a happy ending i will cry.
Shelved as 'to-be-released'
July 23, 2024ANOTHER ONE ?? 😭 better have more averyjameson content pls and thank you
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July 22, 2024pls have some averyjameson content 😭 i love jamie
July 25, 2024
Waittttt, so this is probably gonna be the sequel to The Grandest Games right?
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES, YOU'RE TAKING ALL MY MONEY AND ILL WILLINGLY GIVE IT
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES, YOU'RE TAKING ALL MY MONEY AND ILL WILLINGLY GIVE IT
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July 24, 2024what how many games are there 😭
still adds to tbr I’m a loser, look away
still adds to tbr
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August 20, 2024I just don't know how I'm supposed to wait until July.
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November 22, 2024JLB has revealed the cover of this one on her insta and it's nothing short of GORGEOUS 😩 can July 29 come faster? I NEED MORE LYRAGRAY, like I'm actually obsessed with them (if one year ago, somebody had told me I would like Gray, I would've laughed) and also, some averyjameson crumbs would be nice 🙏🏻🙏🏻 that's all I wish for
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November 22, 2024jennifer it’s okay we don’t need more 😭
edit 11/22/24: OMG THIS COVER- IM SOBBING ITS SO PRETTY
edit 11/22/24: OMG THIS COVER- IM SOBBING ITS SO PRETTY
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July 23, 2024we 😭 need 😭 a 😭 happy 😭 ending 😭 for 😭 grayson 😭 please !!!!!!!!!!!
October 11, 2024
The people who are coming here solely to complain about Jennifer “milking the series� are wackadoo. There’s no such thing as “too many books� in any series. If you’re personally tired of it and don’t want to read anymore, then don’t.
Actively going out of your way to try to get a series you don’t even want to read to end is demented and you guys make me physically ill. Stop being unhinged psychopaths and go away. LEAVE JENNIFER ALONE.
Dear Jennifer, please put these deranged Cheeto-munching commenters in your books and make them lose every riddle/game forever for the the rest of their lives.
Actively going out of your way to try to get a series you don’t even want to read to end is demented and you guys make me physically ill. Stop being unhinged psychopaths and go away. LEAVE JENNIFER ALONE.
Dear Jennifer, please put these deranged Cheeto-munching commenters in your books and make them lose every riddle/game forever for the the rest of their lives.
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July 23, 2024GIMME THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW I NEED IT ALSO THE TITLE WHAAAAAAAAAT “GLORIOUS RIVALS� UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM……ENEMIES TO LOVERS…I HAVENT EVEN READ GRANDEST GAMES BUT I NEEEEEEEED THIS, I SWEAR JENNIFER MIDDLE NAME LYNN BARNES IF U GIVE ME A CLIFFHANGER IM GONNA THROW THIS BOOK OFF A BUILDING…i think im going crazy yall 🫢
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July 22, 2024Oh yeah, get that bag Jennifer
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August 2, 2024pre-read
okay, this is enough. it needs to stop. WE DONT NEED MORE BOOKS🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
okay, this is enough. it needs to stop. WE DONT NEED MORE BOOKS🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
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