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

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

3.0

This book is entertaining, I spent all day reading it, but it matches up so completly with Donna Tartt's The Secret History it sets itself up for a comparison in which it's going to fall flat. Everything about it feels less well done than The Secret History, including the lgbt romance, I feel like this book doesn't deserve to be in the lgbt genre category for the slim amount it has, the subtext that Richard is gay in TSH seems like so much more. The plot was good, but again not very original, but the prose was just meh, it's not literary which from a book where the set up is about literary/pretentious characters feels like a let down.
Again, I enjoyed this in that it was entertaining but I expected more.
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