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

4.0

A good addition to the murder-in-a-tight-knit-group-of-college-students-who-arepossibly-in-a-cult genre. The obvious comparison to Secret History by Donna Tartt aside, this was mostly a very good read - if a little underwhelming towards the end. The characters are everything in something like this and the characters here are quite memorable. The prose is great, even though sometimes it gets a little frustrating to read entire conversations happen in Shakespeare quotes (for someone like me who isn't that well versed in Shakespeare at least) - it serves to... heighten the sort of alien environment and situation that the characters inhabit. But still, sometimes you just can't help but feel like this is a bit too pretentious (which even the author admits in her final note).