A review by monicalaurette
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

There is no comfort like complicity.

This book threw me for a bit. I liked it, but sometimes the characters did things that just felt so odd to me that I think it took some of my enjoyment. Also the way it was an open ending and left too much to the imagination. Like, was he going to buy a ticket or just live with the uncertainty?

The Shakespeare aspect to the book was interesting because I don't know his works that well, so trying to understand what they are saying some of the time was difficult to me.

We were so easily manipulated - confusion made a masterpiece of us.

I knew it was going to be Richard or James dead and that possibly the other was who did it

understanding now why James was so intent to get him out of the water, it was the guilt driving him

can't decide if Richard's 'queer' comment was homophobic or just him being like 'the closet is made of glass'
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