Let me start by saying this is a book that you will either hate, tolerate or love immensely. It is very leaded with Shakesperian quotes and was also formatted as a Shakesperian play. The author paid attention to how the setting should look like, how the tone of each subsets are executed. The characters are your typical group of friends who hate, love and eventually think of murderous thoughts against each other - until one eventually was murdered. And you would think the twist would stop there,oh no it was just the beginning. The aftermath of the murder comprised majority of the story which gave puffs of life to the character development of each cast, until it didn't

The immersion of Shakespeare to the entirety of the book made it really cool for those who are not really into Shakespeare. However, it was too immersed that outside this, all characters went south. Removing Shakespeare into the equation leaves a lot of character loopholes and interesting concepts that could have been explored. For one, why was Richard so damn angry all the time? He has been friends with the same group of people for three years so the characterization shift which eventually led to his murder still baffles me. Another is the queer relationship of Oliver and James. While a lot of reviewers pointed out the poignant comparison to that of a Shakesperian tragedy, I disagree. There's nothing tragic about this since it was not explored thoroughly in the first place. The bits and pieces were left to the reader's discretion to connect. Sure, it was sad that they did not reconnect as expected on the ending, but the ending