If We Were Villains: The Sensational TikTok Book Club pick: M.L. Rio

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Taking this into consideration, there is no surprise that the last actors standing are very ambitious, easily envious and passionate about what they are doing. Friends, I feel like this is a book that won’t be for everyone, but if it is for you then you will love it with the sum of your being. The story follows the students as they manage their relationships, objectives and the consequences of their actions against the backdrop of Shakespearean plays.

When you read the synopsis for this book, you will likely hear a voice saying, “Oh, this sounds interesting!There was a lot of building tension and intrigue throughout the story, though I felt the plot twist and the murder’s identity were predictable. The characters are all presented at first as archetypes (hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue and extra).

In conclusion, I am once again appalled that I'm not part of a tight-knit group of morally bankrupt Shakespeare devotees who sport an unhealthy obsession with aesthetics and together try to cover up a murder one of them committed. Their performances always came alive on the page and the building tension made the story so thrilling and easy to follow. Meanwhile, Oliver enters a romantic relationship with Meredith while harboring confused feelings toward James. He is visited by the cop who brought him to justice on the eve of his retirement, asking if Marks will finally tell him the truth of what happened that night at Dellecher Classical Conservatory.

Afterwards, Oliver discovers a bloodstained piece of fabric in the fireplace and hides it among some discarded sets in the Fine Arts Building.

At first, you're trying to sell him to me as this naive underdog, and all of a sudden he's fucking the hottest chick in school?There Oliver and Meredith discover a battered, broken and seemingly deceased Richard floating in the water. The plot follows a group of seven acting students whose friendship comes undone after they are cast outside of their usual roles. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.