The Cousins

The Cousins

2020 • 336 pages

Ratings112

Average rating3.6

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Three cousins have been asked to come help at resort that is currently owned by their grandmother. However, the last time they all saw each was during the childhood. 

Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah have never met their met their grandmother, as she disinherited their parents before they were born. Having each receiving a personal letter from their grandmother to work on at the family resort for the summer, curiosity get to the better of them and well as questions as to why they have never properly met & why their grandmother disowned their parents. 

I really enjoyed the first couple of chapters as we find out about each cousin, what they are like, and who they are as person. 

The cousins were not too thrilled at first to be going back to resort but Milly and Aubrey had sort of accepted it and Jonah was still annoyed as he had been accepted into a Science Camp for the summer which was apparently very hard to go into. 

Once they arrived at the resort and start working, Doland, wants to meet them. Donald offered the three another job with better pay, however, he is wanting them off the resort. We learn quiet early on that Jonah is an imposter. While their cousin Jonah (JT) is at camp he sent another Jonah in his place, which Millie spotted by putting clues together from when they first boarded the ship.

The plot twist keeps coming we soon learn that the bartender is indeed their uncle and learn that it was him that contacted them. Jonah kept stringing them along as he wanted to pretty much destroy the Story family name as JT dad (Milly and Aubrey's uncle) made Jonah family bankrupt. And of course, this is when the real JT show his face as a picture got posted of Jonah during an event on the island.

And the plot twist keep coming when the pieces are put together, it is revealed that their grandmother isn't who she says she is. Their grandmother had passed away 24 years ago and her good friend Theresa took her place and acted as their grandmother as she wanted revenge on the Story family for the death of her son.

September 3, 2024