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If We Were Villains (2017)

par M.L. Rio

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"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments."
??Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail ?? for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.
Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words
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“Actors are by nature volatile—alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up, stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster” (53).

If We Were Villains is about seven players whose performance-art imitates life—all the ego and betrayal and secrets that lead to a tragedy of Shakespearean proportion. These fourth-year actors have come from various corners of the world, but despite their different backgrounds, they have a single commonality—an obsession with Shakespearean performances. At this elite arts college, their final year together as a troupe seeks to answer the question about what moves a mostly innocent community to a more nefarious cult. What causes their stage-lives to unravel into their off-stage lives? Who’s playing the actors—the archetypal personas they’ve been assigned and immersed in for three years or the damaged, foolish Shakespearean addicts they are. And, finally, who or what is at fault for such a tragic ending—the characters’ own folly, living the “cult of excess,” Shakespeare himself, the pressure and expectations of elitism, or—simply—predetermined fate? ( )
  lizallenknapp | Apr 20, 2024 |
Fucking hell this will be on my mind for a while.
Oliver and James bro tho WTF
I CANT EVEN
I honestly don’t care that it’s taken me just less than a month to read bc I can say I was INVESTED

Oliver was in love with James so much he took the blame, hoping he’d be with him when he’s out of prison just to find out James killed himself FOUR YEARS EARLIER. ( )
  HSDCAce | Apr 2, 2024 |
what the hell ( )
  sashaxoxo | Apr 1, 2024 |
Serious “The Secret History” by Tartt vibes going on here. Instead of so much booze and drugs, it’s too much Shakespeare. Seriously though, it really is too much Shakespeare. To the point that I just skipped through the endless dialogues that involved it. And who speaks amongst each other like that? No one, that’s who.
Now that I have gotten that out of the way, the book is pretty good. Story is about a group of theatre students (obsessed with Shakespeare, of course) that are good friends until they are not. One of them gets murdered, and it all unravels pretty quick. Lies, betrayal, jealousy, treachery… you name it.
Ending is fab, with a great twist that you kinda see it coming, and are pleased to confirm after the last page.
Definitely read it, and be patient with the endless Bard situation going on in there. ( )
  AleAleta | Mar 28, 2024 |
For seven acting students of a famed theatre college a life of hedonist debauchery comes full circle when the Shakespearean troupe is caught within the nightmare of their own real-life Shakespearean tragedy. In a case of profound irony the excesses, jealousies, insecurities and fears that dwell within human nature, chronicled and portrayed so well by their playwright idol and mentor, become the mirror held up to them. They are now the villains and heroes, seducers and conspirators in a play that writes its lines according to their own actions. Caught in a spiderweb of betrayal and disloyalty, without realizing it, they are fated to play their roles once more - with no less than their own fates in jeopardy. Hamlet's resignation as he spoke "There is nothing left for me than blame it all on fate" sets the tone for the last act.

"If we were Villains" is eloquent and entertaining. Intermittent quotes from Shakespeare's plays are well-placed. Solidly above average fiction fare, providing an intriguing mystery, this novel also educates us with less well known fact about Shakespeares plays. This deserves 4 stars.
Small caveat: In recent years there are more and more gay/lesbian characters included in mainstream fiction. Although there is in principle nothing wrong with that, it does make me wonder if this is done for socio-political reasons. The proportion of readers that call themselves gay/lesbian I'd reckon to be rather tiny. What is more important is that the main character in "Villains" being gay just doesn't fit all too well within the plot and background. Naturally, this is just my humble opinion and I stand corrected on both counts, anytime. ( )
  nitrolpost | Mar 19, 2024 |
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In this strong and assured first novel, Rio crafts an intricate story about friendship, love, and betrayal. Recommended for readers who enjoy literary fiction by authors such as Tartt or Emily St. John Mandel.
ajouté par ablachly | modifierLibrary Journal (Apr 17, 2017)
 
This novel about obsession at the conservatory will thoroughly obsess you.
 
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For the many weird and wonderful thespians whom I have had the good fortune to call my friends. (I promise this is not about you.)
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I sit with my wrists cuffed to the table and I think, But that I am forbid / To tell the secrets of my prison house, / I could a tale unfold whose lightest word / Would harrow up thy soul.
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Fiction. Literature. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

"Much like Donna Tartt's The Secret History, M. L. Rio's sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...If We Were Villains will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments."
??Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail ?? for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.
As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.
Intelligent, thrilling, and richly detailed, If We Were Villains is a captivating story of the enduring power and passion of words

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