The Price of Inheritance: A Novel

The auction scenes are so descriptive you get caught up in a flood of excitement and detail, hanging on the narrator’s every breath, every beat of her heart, every moment of action. Absolutely splendid!

I enjoyed this book so much that before I finished it, I went on Amazon and ordered her previous novel.I know next to nothing about the rarified art world of Christie's and Sotheby's...my knowledge of rare antique furniture is limited to sometimes watching Antiques Roadshow (which, ironically, is mentioned a few times in the book). But the author takes a subject which could be a bit dull and zips it up to show the high stakes competitive nature of antique auctions and ownership.I did find some of the plot around the Middle Eastern bowl to be a bit drawn-out and too complicated, but don't let that keep you from the book.I'd really like to give the book 4.5 stars...I save 5 stars for the VERY BEST books I've read. I did find the ending very intriguing and happy that it was not too "pat" to be believed.Actually, I think a better title would have gotten this book more notice. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

The Price of Inheritance is Karin Tanabe's second novel, and like her first smash-hit The List, The Price of Inheritance is a page-turner.Like Tanabe's first book - The List - The Price of Inheritance takes you into the whirlwind world of a young successful woman...aka 29 year-old Carolyn Everett. Picture perfect life - on the outside! She lives on the upper east side in Manhattan, works at the prestigious auction house Christies and has a relationship - albeit on and off - with pretty boy Alex.When an auction that's suppose to make her career ends up breaking it, Carolyn goes back home to Newport, Rhode Island. Levaing both NYC, life in the fast lane, and her on and off boyfriend Alex behind. Giving herself a month to get back on her feet, she starts working in the local antique store.At a small local auction Carolyn buys a piece of Middle Eastern pottery. Thinking the bowl might be worth a lot more than the 20 dollars, she paid for it, Carolyn goes on a quest to find the original owner. The bowl brings her into contact with Tyler Ford - a hunky but mysterious marine. The (love) story of Carolyn and Tyler is filled with drama, secret and lies, and it's oh so good! Nothing is what it seems and the bowl takes Carolyn on a crazy journey of life, love and back into the elite life of the international art world.Read this and you will love:The detailed way in which Tanabe describes the art worldThe character of Carolyn - she's human - with just the right touch of crazy (her reaction after she's fired from Chrisites)The book is well-written - Tanabe manages to keep the language light and flowing - and at the same time, she often times brings the funny in great, well-places sentencesThe ending is happy - yes, I said it - but not in the way you may think!So what are you waiting for? Go get it, order it or download it to your Kindle asap! You won't be sorry! I couldn't put it down - read it in one day - daily commute and evening! #whoneedssleepanyways Can't wait for Tanabe's next book!

I have now read both books by Karin Tanabe and I'm already looking forward to book number three. In both books the writing and the story are excellent and I had a genuine liking for both protagonists.This book takes us into the world of auctions and Carolyn Everett who has a high powered job at Christies only to lose it when she mis-judges the importance of some information that finds its way to her.She goes home and goes to work in a local antique store. That's when the fun begins and it's when this review ends because I do not want to give anything away.What I will say is that this book (and the first one) are very highly recommended!

"Chick lit" meets international crime meets art history in this fast-paced story of art theft and deceit set in the worlds of high-end international collecting and the gilded mansions of Newport. Tanabe's brainy heroine, Carolyn Everett, seems to have it all, with a coveted job at Christie's auction house, until a wealthy client's suspicious art trade causes her to lose the job, her Manhattan foothold, and maybe even her handsome, successful sort-of-boyfriend. Returning home to Newport, Rhode Island, to lick her wounds, she perches just outside the monied circles inhabited by childhood friends who never have to work and settles in as a lowly paid antique dealer's assistant.Seems like nothing more is in store than an undemanding job and regular outings on her friends' yacht, until new intrigue enters with Carolyn's purchase of a mysterious bowl from the Middle East she finds at the Goodwill Store. Her efforts to date the bowl give rise only to new questions, about its age, its provenance, and its possible shady past, and they introduce her to Tyler Ford, an equally mysterious and irresistible Marine veteran of the Iraq War with what may be an equally shady past. But how can she mistrust this man who -- despite warnings from his fellow Marines and Carolyn's own friends -- wins her wholehearted love? And how far will she go for him?Tanabe weaves a complex plot enriched by her authoritative knowledge of art history, from Maimonides to Colonial Baltimore, and the worlds of art trading, theft and, international detection.

This book started out great, and I really liked the first third of it. After the main character falls for the stereotypical "hunk," it's all downhill from there and was hard to finish. You will get very bored with hearing about the " green bowl" and wishing it was over. The parts about the auction houses and the amazing prices people will pay was the most interesting part of the whole thing.