Review by thaisasaurusrekt - If We Were Villains

thaisasaurusrekt 's review for:

If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio

1.5

dark tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I feel like this book was very predictable and mostly unnecessary, since having the students just tell on an abusive kid would’ve made the book end in the first act and none of the tragedy necessary. It’s giving dramatic but also stupidity out of love if that makes any sense, but with a plot that makes no real sense to me.

I’ve never experienced any of Shakespeares work apart from gnomeo and Juliet, which may be the reason that I didn’t have an interest in this book whatsoever. I found myself skipping over all of the play parts, and the parallels between the characters and their casting partners just came off as unhinged prose for me.

The rest of the book had a lot of two dimensional characters who really didn’t go any deeper then the casting traits they mentioned at the beginning of the book. If the twist was supposed to be the whodunnit portion, then I figured that out as soon as Richard’s death happened. Even James suicide was predictable since I saw no other reason for him not to not visit Oliver after their obvious yet not obvious to them love for eachother.

It’s a book I myself would never have picked up, and I did at least learn something out of this book, and I liked that they had the detective go over the crime in present tense to tell the story of years prior. But other then that, a bit of a ddud.