If We Were Villains: The Sensational TikTok Book Club pick: M.L. Rio

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I didn't care for any of the characters, I didn't care for the plot and I didn't care who the murderer was (and if we're being honest, there wasn't even really a mystery here.

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I’m sure theatre lovers will pick up all the nuances and appreciate it more, but it’s a fun ride with all the murder and melodrama, and I could still tell that much of the narrative mirrored plays that the characters were performing and quoting. But for one last time, his brain is revisiting those old haunts, dredging up those years again, churning them to the surface to be rewound and replayed, remembering. Colborne visits Oliver regularly in prison because he does not believe he is responsible for Richard’s death.the events of that night are murky, but our verbiage-spouting narrator oliver marks confessed to the murder and has spent the past ten years in jail. The moral outrage we should have suffered was quietly put down, surpassed like an unpleasant rumor before it had a chance to be heard.

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I am a natural-born drama queen, I feed on theatrical stuff like this, do you expect me not to fell in love with a bunch of college kids aspiring to become actors? In response to pressures of their fourth year, previously close relations between the students quickly devolve. If We Were Villains had the potential to be truly awesome and it ended up being a complete and utter clusterfuck. There Oliver and Meredith discover a battered, broken and seemingly deceased Richard floating in the water.The novel begins in prison, with the novel’s protagonist and narrator Oliver Marks handcuffed to a table and talking to Joseph Colborne, the detective who was formerly assigned to his case. Rio created such a tacit and tangible setting, with the smells and the pictures and the tone so easy to picture. Her body is cast into the ocean, but — unbeknownst to Pericles — washes up near the home of a physician who is able to revive her. Colborne congratulatesOliver on being granted paroleafter serving a ten-year sentence for the murder of his classmate, Richard Stirling,and askshim to share what actually happened ten years earlier.

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Filippa sends Oliver a note James had left for him, which is a passage from Pericles, Prince of Tyre. I loved the way the author translated the contemporary idolisation of Shakespeare into something so dark and twisted.Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. As Oliver notes in Act 2, Scene 8, Shakespeare felt like their older and wiser friend, one they could not see but whose ideas were always in their heads. If you don't believe me, please read this fanfic because it's the only true ending that we all deserved. The characters almost 'become' their parts, making it hard to determine where their acting and their actual personality begins and ends.