Books and stories about family secrets are on my list of interests. What's better than the deep dark family secret that "changes everything"?

The Rules of Fortune strives to do just that, but is a victim of its own predictability.

Told over seventy years and via multiple characters, The Carter's family is one that pulled me in, but just didn't stick the landing. Everyone was interesting and I wanted more from each person, but the 'shock value' was not shocking, at least to me.

I want more books like this, but with a real, deep twist. No need to be Flowers in the Attic, but a good hidden sister or uncle is always interesting.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

The Rules of Fortune by Danielle Prescod was a god quick read. Riveting and engaging, with lots of twists and turns that kept me turning page after page!

Family secrets trope at its finest! Well done story that is interesting and fast-paced. I was entertained throughout the book. Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

"A daughter's investigation into her family history threatens to destroy their legacy in a gripping novel about power, money, and secrets by the author of Token Black Girl.

On their Martha's Vineyard estate, the Carter family prepares to celebrate. But when the billionaire patriarch dies right before his seventieth birthday, the media is quick to question the future of the multi-industry conglomerate that makes the Carters living legends. Amid the succession crisis, his daughter, Kennedy, is questioning her father's past.

Kennedy is an aspiring filmmaker, and the documentary she'd planned to present at her father's party begins an inquest into the life of a man she never really knew. A thoughtful outlier in an elite and fiercely guarded dynasty, she's not interested in keeping up the appearances that define her impeccably poised mother or in the capitalist games her ruthless brother plays. Kennedy wants only to understand the origins of their empire, and the lethally ambitious man behind it. That understanding comes at a cost.

As a twisted history emerges, the fault lines in the family grow. Torn between morality and the promise of maintaining wealth, Kennedy must decide what's most important - the Carter legacy or exposing the shocking truth of how it was built."

I mean, a character named Kennedy unearthing family secrets? It's totally about THE Kennedys, and I'm all for taking down that corrupt family, even if only fictionally.