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

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The victim, Richard, is also the novel’s antagonist, a cruel bully whose rage grows whenever he is thwarted. This feels like yet another attempt to make Shakespeare appealing to the masses, which is fine, don't get me wrong, but this is definitely more a book for the casual Shakespeare reader, rather than the Shakespeare fanatic.

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A good Shakespearian actor - a good actor of any stripe, really - doesn’t just say words, he feels them.it held my interest, but i think this one will resonate more with theater-kids than it did for me, because of how firmly entrenched it is in that world. I never took drama class but if all the peeps there are so unruffled by something as banal as a woman’s insecurities, then sign me the fuck out. Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition.

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The structure of this book is really well put together as it is split into five 'acts' instead of the usual 'parts. Angry, Meredith invites Oliver up to her room, and the two have sex, while an enraged Richard pounds on the door.There was a lot of building tension and intrigue throughout the story, though I felt the plot twist and the murder’s identity were predictable. it's a good read; if you're a The Secret History readalike addict like me, it's not going to blow your mind, but it's entertaining, and i did really like the little turn at the end. Oliver is one of my favourites and, it seems, the protagonist of the book; he’s always the sidekick, always the nice guy with a good heart; always loyal; he could do anything for those whom he loves; and he does; how could one not love him?

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I’m afraid," she said, after what felt like a year , speaking very slowly, "that I’m prettier than I’m talented or intelligent, and that because of that no one will ever take me seriously.

If We Were Villains is the story of a tightly knit group of seven lyric-mad Shakespearean thespians who seem to prefer each other’s company to anyone else’s, thereby offending the rest of the world. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. But these are the only (somewhat) positive things I have to say about this book: it's very accessible from the get go, the characters are easy to love (and hate) and the building climax to the inevitable murder is thrilling.

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For example, writing dialogue like a play script, and including themes, motifs and dialogue from plays into the text.Rio makes it impossible not to be consumed by this story, not to fall in love with each of these characters, with the encompassing attraction of a group of friends who have made ruins of each other, and the tragic intoxicating chemistry of two lovers who held each other in plain sight of the world, though their bodies remained forever separate. It’s impossible not to feel caught up in the webs she creates: in the thorny tangle of guilt, frustration, and longing, the rivalry, the blurred lines between love and hate, the fractured loyalties and determined single-minded violent obsessions that can never end well for most but make for one hell of a story for the ones who survive to tell it. 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.