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

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The day of the performance, while cleaning, Oliver finds a bloody boat hook hidden in James’s mattress and realizes that he must have used it to hit Richard. In the end, it doesn’t matter you enjoy the drama, because everything turns into a careful tragic masterpiece with no chance of changing its ending. Now, ten years later, detective Colborne feels every choice he’d made, every action he took that fatal night, as a weight he carries with him. After Oliver is released from prison, it is revealed that Camilo and Filippa are in a romantic relationship. The evening before he is due to be released on parole after serving ten years for an unspecified crime, Oliver Marks is approached by the lead investigator on his case, Detective Colborne.

If We Were Villains: The sensational TikTok Book Club pick If We Were Villains: The sensational TikTok Book Club pick

Actors are by nature volatile— alchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. I was still grasping at the small things I hoped might tell a different story when the ending happened. There Oliver and Meredith discover a battered, broken and seemingly deceased Richard floating in the water. And you know what, this book would have been a five no matter how it ended, but the ending made me screech out loud.This is truly a page-turner in every sense: the intricate plot turnings, the meticulous character work, and the staggering narrative revelations all make for the kind of book that sucks you in for hours at a time. Pericles is an interesting play because it is set up like a tragedy but ends up like a comedy - aka, in the Shakespearean comedies, the drama is resolved when the characters who are presumed to be dead turn out to be alive, or when two characters kept apart by circumstances end up getting married.

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Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. Rio was born in Miami, and has just competed her MA in Shakespeare Studies at King's College London. James also admits that Filippa knew about the murder, and it was she who burned his bloody shirt in the fireplace. The quotes she chose are so basic, it's really quite sad when you think of the deepness and richness of Shakespeare's complete work. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.Now he is about to retire, he asks Oliver if he will finally tell the truth about what really happened all those years ago. Rio did an excellent job at showing his abusive behaviour toward his peers and how he was the disrupter of peace within the group. Meredith breaks up with Richard, and the group decides to teach him a lesson, using a rehearsal to attack their classmate. When we first walked through those doors, we did so without knowing that we were now part of some strange fanatic religion where anything could be excused so long as it was offered at the altar of the Muses. If anyone quoted more than five lines of Shakespeare to my face in every single conversation they've had with me.

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A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth, If We Were Villains will draw readers in and leave them pondering the weight of our biggest actions and their consequences.Before Colborne can make an arrest, Oliver confesses to Richard's murder, using a slightly tweaked version of James' story. A young, Chilean fight choreographer, personal trainer, and movement coach for acting students at Dellecher. I loved the way the author translated the contemporary idolisation of Shakespeare into something so dark and twisted.