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No cover — M. L. Rio: If We Were Villains (2017, Flatiron Books)

368 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2017 by Flatiron Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-250-09530-5

Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.

8 editions

sifuCJC reviewed If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

An actors' view of dark academia

4 stars

You have to like Shakespeare for this one. It is steeped in his drama.

I think this book was a take on what's now called 'dark academia' that came from Tartt's Secret History. 'Villains' did do a good job of showing the cult-like bonding of repertory acting and you do fall in love with the characters. But it didn't touch the subtle sinking into the depths that Tartt's original does.

You have to like Shakespeare for this one. It is steeped in his drama.

I think this book was a take on what's now called 'dark academia' that came from Tartt's Secret History. 'Villains' did do a good job of showing the cult-like bonding of repertory acting and you do fall in love with the characters. But it didn't touch the subtle sinking into the depths that Tartt's original does.

Rainer reviewed If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

Fantastic

5 stars

The tension and the character building in this book are exquisite. The author's capacity for obscuring the finale, while also tastefully and intentionally leaving breadcrumbs along the way, made this book an engaging and engrossing novel until the very last sentence of the epilogue.

Subjects

Fiction, thrillers, general