For anyone who has found themselves enamored of a discipline, an author, or an idea, Rio’s book is a pleasurable reminder of what the first stirrings of intellectual passion feel like. But while the suspense provoked by this death will keep you turning the pages until late into the night, what I enjoyed most about the content of the book is the way ML Rio depicts what it feels like to fall madly in love not with a person but with a subject-in this case, literature and the plays of Shakespeare. Or I could choose the subject matter itself, which on the surface is a whodunnit that revolves around the suspicious death of a quarrelsome classmate. Dramatic by nature and training, these characters find themselves embroiled in their own heated internecine conflicts as passionate and all-consuming as the Shakespearean ones they enact on the stage. I could choose the lively and memorable characters: in Villains, we follow a group of seven friends during their last year of college at an exclusive arts conservatory. It should be hard for me to choose my favorite thing about If We Were Villains, since there are so many things to admire and enjoy about this novel.
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