I devoured Their Vicious Games last week. I stayed up late reading it three nights in a row because I could not stop. It surpassed my expectations and delivered all I hoped it would.

Their Vicious Games is a compelling story about a scholarship student at a prestigious high school who loses everything and is willing to do anything to get her future back. Adina joins a competition called "The Finish," sponsored by the wealthiest family in town. Against other students, she will compete for the promise of wealth and power.

This book is about wanting and ambition and the privilege needed to have both desire and a way to achieve it. It is about being complicit in systems of oppression. Calling into question whether you can be good inside imbalanced power structures.

You can compare this book to a lot of different books or movies: Hunger Games, Ace of Spades, The Family Games. But that should not take away from its utter uniqueness. It doesn’t feel like “oh this is like _____” it feels completely its own.