e-ALC, 10:42:06
Narrated by: Torian Brackett
Release Date: June 2, 2026
Published by: Macmillan Audio
Read from: June 16-17, 2026
Stand-alone
Source: Netgalley (I received this ALC from the publisher and Netgalley. I also received an ARC copy of this from the publisher via TxLA. This did nothing to influence my review.)
Content Warning: Death of a Parent, Death, Emotional Abuse, Alcoholism, Blood, Injury/Injury Detail, Vomit, Violence, Car Accident
For Readers of: 2sLGBTQ+, ARC, Audio, Most Anticipated, Multiple POV, Own, Racial/Ethnic Diversity, Realistic Fiction, Thrillers, YAA mystery about five teen geniuses, their billionaire father, and the investigation into his murder.
Five prodigies, one dead father, a mansion full of suspects…
Octavius the Maestro.
Fola the Brain.
Bilal the Olympian.
Perdita the Artist.
Romeo the Failure.These are the five heirs of the illustrious billionaire Leontes Button. Adopted and viciously trained with their father’s infamous “Button Method” to prove his hypothesis for creating prodigies—child geniuses—the Button siblings have had no choice but to be brilliant according to their father’s impossibly high standards.
Until he is murdered at his annual Prodigy Ball.
Now, all who attended the ball are required to stay in the Button Manor while the police investigate. But the officers have their work cut out for them—each of the Button siblings has something to hide, but The Heirs aren’t the only ones with secrets. After all, Leontes Button was especially good at making enemies. . .
*MY THOUGHTS*
Me and multiple POVs just don’t get along anymore. I used to not care how many of them there are, but now? If there’s too many people to establish it gets hella boring in the beginning and I just can’t. luckily this one wasn’t THAT bad.
Don’t get me wrong, I was bored in the beginning. So much so that I kept starting and restarting it over and over and over. I think I listened to the first chapter like 10 times. I remember it took like a couple days. And that was via the audio. The good thing tho, once it got going, it was good. Fast paced and all. It was just the multiple POVs bogging it down for me I think.
The ending was crazy af. I did guess the biggest plot twist. I didn’t guess who it was but that was because I didn’t give a damn about it lol There were too many people and too many different personalities. And since we’re only given a little at a time and all of them had a motive to lie, I didn’t even try. But the big thing at the end I knew it wasn’t over. I’ll just say that. It made for a pretty boring story. It was just weird af.
This wasn’t my favorite from Faridah, but it’s still ok. I’m still sending it out to the branches and the teens can be the judge. As of right now, this is not on MY list of favorites.
Overall, I give this
