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Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington

32 reviews

sophiamckinleyy's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Racism, Toxic friendship, Violence, Classism, Cursing, Death, Gore, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

sharib's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, and Violence

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Racism, Classism, and Sexism

Minor: Misogyny, Drug use, Trafficking, and Sexual violence

imstephtacular's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Murder, Bullying, Gaslighting, Death, Violence, Racism, Classism, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Gore, Sexism, Alcohol, and Blood

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Drug use, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, and Xenophobia

Minor: Sexual content and Infidelity

theonlybaillie's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book was The Hunger Games meets The Bachelor and everyone is completely UNHINGED.

And I can't decide if I liked it or not lol.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Blood, Classism, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Racism, Gun violence, Bullying, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Alcohol, Vomit, and Torture

gabyspinktasticlibrary's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I have been waiting months for this book to come out and it did not disappoint!! It is such a good high-stakes thriller that keeps you engaged the whole time. I definitely felt some dark-academia Hunger Games vibes when reading this book. I really thought the entire plot of the book was so unique and exciting and in some ways not at all what I anticipated. At times I really felt like I was there in the book, watching the girls compete. I definitely recommend this book but PLEASE make sure to read the content warnings! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Blood, Murder, Emotional abuse, Gore, and Violence

Moderate: Classism, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Racism

tinybluepixel's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Body horror, Bullying, Murder, Misogyny, Emotional abuse, Gore, Toxic friendship, Racism, Classism, Death, Grief, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, and Violence

crystalsparkles's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Emotional abuse, Murder, Racism, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, and Death

bookishpixie's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I really enjoyed this book! I thought the beginning was a little slow paced but honestly we needed that pace in the beginning because once it picked up, it took off! I ended up finishing the book in a few days and stayed up late to finish it. I just had to know how it ends. The main character Adina was thrown into battle royale situation and she did what she had to do. I enjoyed the plot twists and creative ways people got their Just Desserts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Violence

lsol8tion's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

THIS BOOK HAD ME GAGGED FROM START TO FINISH!!! I couldn't put it downnnn like omg. Its dark, tense, and suspenseful nature will gove you a hell of an experience!

Their Vicious Games took "EAT THE RICH" to a whole new level! What blows my mind about this is that the contestants of the Finish are all financially well off (except Adina). They're in the top 5% of the global economy, but they're all willing to KILL for a boy's attention because his family is one of the most powerful billionaire emlores in the world. It's crazy how people are never satisfied, no matter how rich they are.

Adina's better than me cuz I woulda kms if I was in her shoes, Yale be damned. I wholeheartedly believe that her and Saint

woulda never survived without each other. BUT GIVE IT UP FOR OUR FINAL GIRLS IKDR!

The death game trope has been done before, but Joelle Wellington's top-notch writing is what made this book an entirely new, cliche-free experience for me. I could FEEL the madness, anguish, grief, and desperation that all of the girl were expressing throughout the entire Finish.

One thing I also appreciate is that Adina

has no romantic endgame. Although the Finish was for his favor, I thought Pierce really wanted to change the nature of the Finish for the better (in his own blind, paradoxical way), but we all find our that he just wanted to alter it in favor of his rags-to-riches fantasy involving Adina. But GRAHAM?? I wasn't liking Adina's lil attraction to Graham, and I'm happy she laughed in his face when he said that he loved her. Bringing his faults of him being a coward and being complicit in his family's fucked up tradition to the forefront at the end of the book is an amazing choice by Wellington. His self-proclaimed black sheep, "woe is me" self-pity attitude was so annoying.

This book is truly worth my 5 star rating. GIVE MS WELLINGTON HER 10S!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Classism and Racism

Minor: Emotional abuse

tbrplaylist's review

challenging dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Gore, Blood, Body horror, Toxic friendship, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting