Week 47 Review: Gifted & Talented

From Goodreads:

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who, upon the death of their father, are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized adolescent potential.

Where there's a will, there's a war.

Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne.

Or at least, so they like to think.

Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You're welcome! If only her father's fortune wasn't her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud.

Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he's losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father's approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around.

Eilidh, once the world's most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father's company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth—by confirming she'd been his favorite all along.

On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins—but which Wren will come out on top?

My Review:
I loved reading this book! I always love Olivie Blake's books, the synopsis' are so original and so are the stories they're about. This story about the drama within this family as they dealt with their father's passing, loved it!

All these of these siblings were separate, distinct characters, who were all just a little bit broken in different ways. Their father wasn't the best person or good father, and what with his death, they have to confront that damage as they process that he's really gone. 

The way that this story is told, going between the siblings, as they find out about their dad's death, and all the things that they have going on in their lives, and the flashbacks of how they got there, was such a great story, as we learned more about them and why they were the way that they were. Each of them had something going on, and I loved reading their story! 

I think the narrator was my favourite part of the story! Their voice, and the way that they commented on what the Wren's were doing, was just fantastic! The way that it was a part of the story, oh, that was really well done! 

This was a magnificent read and I can't wait to read more by Olivie Blake!

Author: Olivie Blake 

Read: November 17th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2024 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Tor Books
Expected Publication: April 1st 2025

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars