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A review by whiterubys
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
5.0
“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
My favorite types of books are those that enrapture me so deeply that I am deaf to everything around me until I reach the last page, and I am thrilled to report this falls under that category.
If We Were Villains follows a group of seven extraordinarily talented Shakespearean actors, in their last year of university. The story is narrated by Oliver, perhaps the most unremarkable one of the group if you asked him. Tensions come to a rise throughout the group, and when one of the actors mysteriously dies, it is up to them to reassemble the pieces, or possibly become shattered all over again.
This book is a work of pure genius. Every single page has a purpose, and Rio does not waste a word on anything capricious. Admittedly, I figured out the murder mystery very early on, but that did not take away from the book in the slightest. I could sit down for hours and talk about Oliver as a narrator as well as the ending of the story (if anyone is free for coffee, seriously, tell me). I could ramble on for ages about the absolute brilliance of this book, and if you get any opportunity to pick it up, do it, and if you don't have an opportunity, make one.
My favorite types of books are those that enrapture me so deeply that I am deaf to everything around me until I reach the last page, and I am thrilled to report this falls under that category.
If We Were Villains follows a group of seven extraordinarily talented Shakespearean actors, in their last year of university. The story is narrated by Oliver, perhaps the most unremarkable one of the group if you asked him. Tensions come to a rise throughout the group, and when one of the actors mysteriously dies, it is up to them to reassemble the pieces, or possibly become shattered all over again.
This book is a work of pure genius. Every single page has a purpose, and Rio does not waste a word on anything capricious. Admittedly, I figured out the murder mystery very early on, but that did not take away from the book in the slightest. I could sit down for hours and talk about Oliver as a narrator as well as the ending of the story (if anyone is free for coffee, seriously, tell me). I could ramble on for ages about the absolute brilliance of this book, and if you get any opportunity to pick it up, do it, and if you don't have an opportunity, make one.