If you enjoy Shakespeare and plays, this book is for you! M. L. Rio's book If We Were Villains is an intriguing mystery surrounding a group of students/actors at the Dellecher Shakespeare Conservatory, and explores what happens when roles and power dynamics are switched. Following the character Oliver Marks, the reader is given a story of tragic events that turns the group upside down alongside his perspective ten years later. Unlike many other books, chapters are structured alike to a play, and the characters often use lines from scenes that mirror their real world problems. This book's unique characteristics and plot definitely makes it worth reading!
- Altea, twelfth-grade teen volunteer
Publisher's description:
Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver describes his past as a Shakespearean actor whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways.