If you’re looking for a highly entertaining YA mystery, look no further: The Rosewood Hunt is what you need. This book checks a lot of my favorite things: rich people with secrets, found family vibes, a treasure hunt à la National Treasure, feelings and lots and lots of fun.
The cast of characters was fantastic. The story is carried by Lily, granddaughter of Iris Rosewood, absolutely confused as to why she didn’t get a thing from her dear grandmother after her death, aside from a letter. I really loved how bold, impulsive, yet really heartwarming Lily was and immediately cared for her.
She’s surrounded by other amazing characters, that all together made such a well-rounded, fun group to follow. My heart goes out to Quinn, the badass of the group, but I also grew fond of Caleb, the “smart” one, as well as Leo, a cinnamon roll, really. I also enjoyed Daisy a whole damn lot, Lily’s cousin, who, behind her strong exterior, hides so much more. Every character felt three dimensional and I had so much fun going on that treasure hunt with them all.
There’s a hint of romance in the story, but I thought it served the story well and didn’t overpower the main intrigue: finding the missing inheritance and just, this band of idiot misfits overall. I really loved them okay. That being said, yes, the romance was soft and yearning and I was aching for them to k i s s already, as well. You know me, I’m like Veronica Mars, a marshmallow.
The Rosewood Hunt is filled with twists, turns, unexpected and thrilling moments. From thinking about a plan to running, chased from the bad guys, to slower moments of tension, I found the book to be well rounded overall. Most of it all, it kept me reading and wanting to know what would happen, next, so that’s certainly a win!

If you’re looking for an action-packed, fast paced YA treasure hunt kind of book, you should love this one. The cast of characters won my heart. I’m eager to see what Mackenzie Reed will write, next!

Inheritance left in a treasure hunt is total catnip to me. I will read it every time I come across it! Unfortunately The Rosewood Hunt didn’t work for me. I tried to read it on audio and decided to DNF at 15%. I am not sure how much of it was the narrator so this may have worked better if I read with eyes instead of ears. Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the free ebook to review.

First of all, thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy of The Rosewood Hunt. This was billed to me as a good next step for readers who enjoyed The Inheritance Games. While I didn't enjoy it as much as I enjoyed TIG, I did think The Rosewood Hunt was a solid novel. I liked how complicated the relationships were, even if I did find some of the lack of communication frustrating sometimes. The mystery & suspense trend seems to be slowing down a bit in my library, but I still have some major fans of the genre who will love this latest addition.

Lily Rosewood's grandmother dies unexpectedly and in her will, she does not declare an heir to her fortune or name the new board member to Rosewood Inc. Everyone is barred from living in Rosewood Manor, leaving Lily to stay with her cousin Daisy and Uncle Arbor, despite the rift between Lily and Daisy especially since Lily's dad died. Lily realizes her Gram left clues, which she hopes will lead to answers about the Rosewood fortune and the future she's been looking for. However, it wasn't just Lily who received a note and now she's working together with her new friends, Liam, Quinn and Caleb. As they discover more clues, they learn more about each other and become better friends, all while dealing with other hunters who are also out for the fortune. Overall, a fun fast-paced hunt that's part mystery, part found family and part romance. Readers who like the Inheritance Games series or the Truly Devious series will like this one.

The story follows Lily and her family, who are taken aback after her grandma's death, when they discover that her fortune was not divided equally among them. Lily receives a mysterious clue, and speculates that her grandmother left behind a scavenger hunt leading to the fortune. She teams up with three other teenagers who also received clues, and together they embark on a hunt to find the treasure.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book! Although the stakes were higher than a typical puzzle hunt, it was still appropriate for the age group of the main characters. The pacing was well done, and the characters were likeable. Additionally, the characters underwent significant development throughout the book. I was pleasantly surprised by some of the unexpected twists and turns in the plot. Overall, it was a really enjoyable read that I would definitely recommend!

4.5/5 ⭐
When Lily's grandma dies, her family is stunned to learn her fortune wasn't split amongst them equally. Lily is left a cryptic clue and figures that maybe her puzzle loving Gram left a scavenger hunt for the fortune. She teams up with three other teens who received clues, and they go on a hunt to find the fortune.

I really enjoyed this one! There were definitely some higher stakes than just a normal puzzle hunt, but nothing that felt too crazy for the age the protagonists were. I thought the pacing was good, and the characters were enjoyable. There also was a lot of character growth over the book. There were even some twists and turns I wasn't expecting! Overall, a really fun read. Definitely would recommend!

I received my copy from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Rosewood Hunt is a wonderful story about the love of a grandmother for her granddaughters and their futures.

Lily Rosewood lives with her grandmother Iris who is the owner of Rosewood Inc. Her grandmother has been in charge of the company since its inception. The primary product is coats. She has taught Lily how to sew when she was very young and has been sewing and recreating designs ever since. Lily's dream is to learn all there is to know about running the company so that one day she will be able to step in.

The day after the party Lily learns that her beloved grandmother has died. Lily feels alone, her father died a year ago, her mother left and now she feels as if she has no one.

At the reading of the will, it is revealed that money is missing from the company and Lily's grandmother had been taking large sums and hiding them. Word gets out and people want to help locate the money for themselves.

Iris loved puzzles and scavenger hunts. She left a letter for several people including Lily's Uncle Arbor and her cousin Daisy. But in a few of them there were blank pages. But Lily realizes that her grandmother often used disappearing ink to hide messages from people she wanted to hide things she didn't want them to know. She moistens hers to reveal a clue and part of a map. She will have to work with the others to locate the missing money, something she is not necessarily good at.

This was a fun and entertaining story. Everyone in the family were named with interesting names. The women are named after flowers and Lily's father was Alder, and her uncle was Arbor. The treasure hunt was a creative way for the younger members of the family to have fun and investigate at the same time. They negotiate for a percentage of the possibility of the yet to be found money which they all hope will provide the funds to pay for their college education and pay outstanding debts in the family.

I really enjoyed this story it was easy to read and fun to follow as the clues were revealed. I liked how the group of new friends worked together to solve the mystery. The author writes YA stories, but I never felt as if this was too young for me.

The Rosewood Hunt has a definite Inheritance Games vibe. It’s a romance wrapped in an adventure wrapped in a mystery.

The mystery unfolds through Lily’s point of view. Lily feels a bit one-note to begin with, but as the story progresses, her growth is exponential. It’s her relationship with Gram that sets up the story, but it’s her relationships with her peers that really drives the story forward.

The Rosewood Hunt is full of twists and turns, clues, adventures, and a bit of romance. It’s a fast-moving read with enough plot twists to keep readers’ interest. The book is a standalone novel, which allows for instant gratification.

if you like the inheritance games, you’ll like this!
quick, easy and so much fun!
I loved the characters and plot so much. it was so perfect for fall & the rich ppl plot is my absolute fav. it felt like an episode of gossip girl!!

This book is indeed a combination of Knives Out and The Inheritance Games. It’s incredible.

One of my favorite old-time series is The Inheritance Games and the way this book got me just as excited as I was when I first read TIG was amazing. I can’t say enough about how good this book is. I thought it was going to start a bit slow, but nope, it went straight into the mystery, and at the end of every chapter I just needed to know more!

The writing is so simple and amazing. I loved the characters so much. I love how you learn to love even those that at the beginning you are skeptical about. Seriously, this book is the perfect mystery, suspense read for this Halloween!

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A fun and thrilling treasure hunt, The Rosewood Hunt sends you spiraling through riddles and racing against villains in hopes of finding a happy ending.

The story definitely had a found-family feel. I loved seeing Lily connect (and reconnect) with Leo, Quinn, and Caleb. I also really enjoyed Lily and Leo’s storyline. I am always a sucker for the used-to-be-friends-now-we’re-enemies type of romance. In middle school and high school, your friends and relationships definitely are in flux I liked watching Lily try to rekindle and navigate them.

Overall, The Rosewood Hunt had a great mix of being light and fun while also being somewhat mysterious and thrilling. Definitely a great one to pick up if you’re looking for an entertaining, quick read.

What a delight! This thriller is a fun treasure hunt featuring the granddaughter and rightful heiress of the fortune-holder. It's also a beautiful story of friendship and love and fighting for what's good. I really really enjoyed it!

This book is fun and addictive. It has a treasure hunt plot that’s fast-paced and full of surprises. I loved the characters and their friendships, there’s found family vibes throughout and plenty of banter. The teenagers are off on an adventure full of mystery and danger with a big money prize at stake. It reminded me of Outer Banks, National Treasure and The Goonies at times. Utterly unputdownable. I even read the acknowledgments which were heartfelt, the authors passion translated well into the characters and plot. Thank you to NetGalley and HarperTeen for an E-ARC. This is a voluntary review of my own thoughts.

Perfect for fans of a series of unfortunate events, we were liars and six of crows.

Before reading, please note that the treasure hunting in this book is a high steak's one, with a lot of risks.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley and am voluntarily posting a review. All opinions are my own.
The Rosewood Hunt drew my attention due to its interesting premise, promising a fun treasure hunt thriller. And while it was a bit weirder than I expected, I still mostly enjoyed it.
I love that the relationship between Lily and her grandmother remained at the heart of the story. Puzzles and scavenger hunts were something that always bonded them throughout their time together, so while the story took some odd turns, I like how the book ultimately tried to reinforce that. And there’s a great juxtaposition between their relationship and the other familial relationships, especially the toxic relationship between Lily’s late father and her uncle. This is also reflected in Lily’s relationship with her cousin, Daisy, which is very tense at the beginning of the book, for reasons related to family tensions, as well as rivalry over a guy, Leo.
But I love how her grandmother’s imposed treasure hunt challenges Lily to work out her issues with both Daisy and Leo, taking on a leading role to recover the family fortune and following Gram’s clues. The team is very much a ragtag one in ways, but I loved the bonds they formed with one another in the process of learning to work together.
The romance was sweet, and Leo’s a pretty solid love interest, past transgressions aside. I did feel like the romance was a bit overshadowed by the rest of the story, but as far as romantic subplots go, it’s not terrible.
The plot and pacing were fairly even and kept my attention for the most part. The treasure-hunt aspects kept things interesting, keeping me guessing, while the more introspective moments provided character growth.

Scavenger hunt books are by far my favorite collection of books/genres, but there isn't nearly as many as there should be. This book somehow managed to surpass my expectations of what this book could be and set my bar a little bit higher for the books that I read after this. There is so much to cover and not enough lines, so let's hit the big stuff. Lily has had a rocky past and has been living with her grandmother for a little bit. They have always had a relationship that involves games, and clues, and invisible ink... sound familiar? (Here's my hint that if you like the inheritance games, you will LOVE this book). Lily is one of those characters that you are able to watch grow throughout this book. It takes her a little while to realize but this whole hunt wouldn't be able to happen without her. I won't unpack everything about the rest of the squad but picture the breakfast club/the goonies all coming together to save the town and become besties. This book has many MANY twists and turns; it has manhunts, it has secret passageways, it has escape vans, and it has romance.. everything you have ever wanted, this book has. Lily, Leo, Quinn, Caleb, Daisy, and the other mix of cast are incredibly written and this book exceeded my expectations. Now the next question is... when is the second book coming out?????

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC. All opinions are my own.*

What a great debut! The Rosewood family are the original founders of Rosetown and to this day they host lavish parties. Unfortunately the Rosewoods have made some enemies and when the matriarch, Iris (Gram) passes, the fortune is missing. Lily, the eldest grandchild finds a clue from her Gram which leads her and three other local teens on a hunt to find the lost fortune. Unfortunately, tourists and treasure hunters are also on the lookout for it and the search becomes deadly.

This was a fun read and I enjoyed most of it! Unfortunately the last 20% dragged and I felt like the ending was a little too convenient. Overall I would recommend this though if you’re looking for a fun read with wonderfully fleshed out characters!

Read if you like:
• treasure hunts
• The Inheritance Games
• found family trope
• complex family dynamics

This was an exciting YA Mystery that I couldn’t put down!

The book is told from one point-of-view and it comes from Lily Rosewood. She comes from an elite family that built the town they live in. She has been living with her Gram for about a year after her dad died and her mother left, hoping that she will learn to take over the family business called Rosewood Inc. All of her hopes and dreams change when her Gram suddenly dies and everything she thought she would get was wrong.

I thought this was a really good setup for the story. Even though as the reader you don’t get to know Gram really well, you still get to know her character a bit through the stories the characters share. Gram was a real firecracker and knew what needed to be done. She wanted everyone to learn some lesson and loved games. Everything with the inheritance was built around clues and one last game for Lily. It also brings other characters into the mix and Lily learns to have friends and rebuild those friendships once again. She learns a lot about herself and finds love as well. I liked that the relationship with her cousin grew too.

The plot was pretty intense and I couldn’t believe the plot twists that were happening! I thought that the person behind all of the danger was someone else. Lily and her friends handle it all really well and learn to trust one another. It was a found family situation and I was happy to see Lily have people she could rely on. There is also talk about TikTok and how viral videos can make things even more chaotic.

Overall, this was an enjoyable read! I loved the romance between Lily and another character. I also liked the mystery of finding the inheritance. It kept me reading until the very end!

Thank you Harper Collins Children’s Books, Harper Teen and NetGalley for the arc of The Rosewood Hunt by Mackenzie Reed in exchange for my honest and unbiased review!

The Rosewood Hunt was a fun, fast paced coming of age novel in which Lily Rosewood and three other teenagers embark on a scavenger hunt, following the clues left behind by Lily’s grandmother.

This was a quick read, and I didn’t feel like the plot dragged, which I very much appreciated. While there were romance aspects, they weren’t central to the plot. Lily’s development took center stage, and we got to see her grow in the span of a few days, which felt appropriate for the stage of life she’s in.

Overall, I loved this book, and I will be recommending it!

Thank you Harper Collins Children’s Books, Harper Teen and NetGalley for the arc of The Rosewood Hunt by Mackenzie Reed in exchange for my honest and unbiased review.

This was a fun fast paced read that I flew through in only a few hours! Reed pulls together an intriguing and enticing plot that definitely has Inheritance Games vibes, albeit centred more in modern day.

The plot is centred around the death of the family matriarch Iris Rosewood aka Gram and the subsequent treasure hunt that draws together an unlikely group of teenagers.

Of course there’s a little more to this, including a high speed chase and a few other high intensity moments but, the central theme is around friendship, family, loyalty and relationships.

The central character Lily initially appears to an entitled individual but, her arc shows greater depth of character and as the gang develops, other interesting characters and back stories come to light. This really brings home the message that no one truly knows what others are going through, what their past is and how important relationships really are.

I found this to be a fun read, and if you’re looking for treasure, this little gem of a debut is worth hunting out.