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

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense

5.0

I am obsessed with this book! It is so unlike anything I have ever read before, and I simply could not put it down. The characters become family. The setting is unsettling but perfect. The writing is beyond words beautiful and vivid. I found myself rereading paragraph after paragraph because the sentence structure and adjectives Rio uses are so amazing. While the Shakespeare language was hard to understand at times, it truly made the book the masterpiece that it is. I will never forget this story and its characters and wonderful writing. 

I was so shocked at the ending. I want to protect Oliver, James, and Filippa with my entire being. I couldn’t quite understand Meredith and Oliver’s relationship, and I don’t know how I feel that they ended up together. James’s ending was devastating .