If We Were Villains: The Sensational TikTok Book Club pick: M.L. Rio

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But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead.

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I expected this to be good - there are so many exceptional reviews, I really hoped it would live up to its hype. Oliver is eager to reunite with James, who had eventually stopped visiting, but is informed that he drowned himself four years earlier. The complete disregard of consistency when it came to her character's personality and actions is baffling to me.

And so begins a tale of friends who attend an elite acting school for Shakespeare, where the characters and words they become every day start to distort their own perceptions of themselves. Richard began to taunt and threaten him, eventually making a homophobic remark in which he accused James and Oliver of being in love with one another and threatening to drown James in the lake.

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And each act, to me, really highlights a different Shakespearean play, that really sets the tone for what is unfolding in that act. I loved getting to know the characters; I found the setting and atmosphere very palpable and moody (it mostly takes place on a college campus in the late 1990's); and the Shakespearean elements were fun because I'd studied his work quite a bit in school. A young, Chilean fight choreographer, personal trainer, and movement coach for acting students at Dellecher.

If We Were Villains had the potential to be truly awesome and it ended up being a complete and utter clusterfuck. Colborne congratulatesOliver on being granted paroleafter serving a ten-year sentence for the murder of his classmate, Richard Stirling,and askshim to share what actually happened ten years earlier. Oliver - Our main protagonist, who is nice, and who is sweet, and who just wants to keep the peace between his group of friends. A true treat and delight for those of us who love Shakespeare and art and love to Feel Emotions but like, can't handle it. its quite clever and beyond invigorating - the type of book that fully immerses you whilst reading it.

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rio makes it accessible to regular folk, but it probably helps to have a soft place in your heart for young actors and the things that drive them, and i’m someone impatient with affectation both in life and in my reading, so the characters were frequently more grating than charming to me.

Recommended for readers with refined literary tastes, and those looking for 'something like' Donna Tartt. Now he is about to retire, he asks Oliver if he will finally tell the truth about what really happened all those years ago. In response to pressures of their fourth year, previously close relations between the students quickly devolve.

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As his fingerprints are on both the shirt scrap and the boat hook, he is arrested and put on trial, though Colborne does not believe him to be the real killer. and it consumed me in the best way possible, i don’t think i can ever move on from this masterpiece. and i should have known not to get so attached, as this story follows the form of a true shakespearean tragedy. Anyways, if you like atmospheric books, angst, the secret history, shakespeare, shaky friendships, and drama, you should read this book.this is the secret history for dummies with annoying theater majors and you can't convince me otherwise. i honestly just want to reread the book just so i can find all the easter eggs hidden behind the passages that i didn’t get the first time reading it. If anyone tries to pry away from me the fact that James is somewhere waiting for Oliver to find him, it could only be from my cold, dead hands, and you’d catch these hands from the grave!