I wanted to read this book ever since I found out it's quite similar to The Secret History, a book I absolutely adored when I read it last summer!

Thankfully, even though it has similar vibes to The Secret History, it was its own book, its own story, a story I really liked!

First of all, what I loved most was the fact that it was exactly the dose of theater I needed to get my through this social distancing time! I loved all the Shakespearean references, I loved that our group were theater students and I have to say, props to the author for capturing an actor's feelings so accurately!

Overall, it was a very engaging read, I significantly preferred the chapters of the past, instead of the chapters taking place in present time, but thankfully those weren't many.

So now you may ask, Niki why only 3 stars? Why not more? Well, it's because I found the ending a bit weak. We know that Oliver ends up in jail from the synopsis of the book, and the events that lead him there, aren't events I could really justify. The actual culprit didn't have a strong enough reason, at least in my eyes, to leave Oliver to rot in jail and the fact that in the end he ended up with a character that (I believed) was no good for him from the beginning, was something I didn't really like.

The ending was a bit anticlimactic, considering the amazing scenes we got on Halloween and while they performed Caesar! The whole atmosphere of the book was so palpable and dark and I just felt a bit let down by the ending.

All in all, it's a book that I would definitely recommend to people, especially for the atmosphere and the mystery and hopefully the ending will be more to your fancy than it was to mine!