Heiress Takes All (A Reese’s Book Club Pick‪)‬

Super cute and entertaining

I loved how Olivia used her outrage towards her father and the way he had discarded her mother leaving the both of them in destitution while he was one of the wealthiest and most recognizable man in Narragansett due to the long held wealth and power the family had established nearly 100 yrs ago from the businesses his great grandfather had established and made extremely successful as well as using corrupt practices to pile the gains and acquisitions he was greedily fixated on making his own and creating a bottomless generational wealth for his future dynasties and rrelatives.
Olivia has planned to pull off a massive heist against her father during his wedding to his 3rd wife who is a mere 5 yrs older than her. She gathers up a small group of kids her age who all are desperate to have a significant amount of money to open their own business, follow their dreams as an actor or to live without the stress and burdens financially that they’ve experienced all their lives along with their hard working parents and siblings. Many of them are intelligent and even brilliant in roles she has chosen them for, such as a hacker, an actor, a financial wiz who can access the data her father has in his oversees accounts and transfer them into the one she is depositing all his millions. When she is found out by her father that she has succeeded in stealing all his millions he surprises her with being proud of her cunning and well planned betrayal and compliments her on being just like him. This sickens her along with the admission of the most shocking secret he has kept from all jos wives and worst, from her. She was in denial and then angered upon hearing that this secret was the truth and the lengths and the treatment he callously dumped on the one who would be the destruction of his reputation was not something he woukd ever allow and so he neglected abused and mistreated this poor person who had no choice in the predicament they were in. He blamed them but it Ed his own selfish and sick corrupt and morally bankrupted fault. Olivia had always known he was heartless and lacked empathy or compassion for anyone even those he shared blood with but this revelation enraged her and she chose to keep his millions leaving him with nothing to fall back on and she planned to cut him out of her life completely as he had done to her mother and herself when she was only 12 yrs old. He’s held a grudge bc she cash him cheating on her mom and he told her if she told and the marriage fell apart it would be all her fault. She lived with that guilt and shame for the last 6 yrs and he used it every time he had the chance to gaslight her and remind her how she ruined their family. She was finally free of his s done and psychological trauma as well as having plenty of money to take care of her mom and she had her inheritance that was legally hers given to her by her grandfather so she didn’t feel at all anything about her dad except vindicated.