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

5.0

me: *remembering all the drama we had in our shakespeare classes back in uni* at least we didn’t murder someone

fact one: i like shakespeare. fact two: i like the secret history. logical conclusion: i hate love absolutely cannot explain want to fling myself from a cliff like this book

look, everyone in dark academia stories is a pretentious arsehole who you’d hate in real life, but if reading a dark academia book doesn’t make you wish you were one of those pretentious arseholes, you’re not reading it right.

still not over the ending (will i ever to be), but this helped easy the sorrow: https://archiveofourown.org/works/15406506 (only click if you’ve finished the book!!!)