A young, Chilean fight choreographer, personal trainer, and movement coach for acting students at Dellecher. The novel concerns a murder mystery surrounding Oliver Marks, a former actor at the fictional Dellecher Shakespeare conservatory and primarily takes place during his fourth and final year at the conservatory.

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act one may have been a bit slow but as the plot started rolling, so did my insides because by the end of the book i felt sick and nauseous all the same. 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. Oliver, Alexander, and James decide to fight back during Caesar's death scene, which quickly spirals out of control.Even though there was a lot of Shakespeare lines and plays intermixed, I still felt like it was readable and didn't confuse me at all about what was going on.

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Frightened and exhausted of Richard’s abuse, the six collectively decide to let him die in the water, assuming that he injured himself while intoxicated. When you read the synopsis for this book, you will likely hear a voice saying, “Oh, this sounds interesting! I loved the way the author translated the contemporary idolisation of Shakespeare into something so dark and twisted. their development and depth was so mesmerizing and i couldn’t help but be amazed by the foreshadowing of each characters fate.slowly watching each character spiral downward due to their own desire, secrets, heartache, and passion was so painful.

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A vivid and immersive story of obsession perfect for fans of dark academia and Donna Tartt's The Secret HistoryOliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. At first, I do think they're a bit stereotypical and cliche, but I thought Rio did a good job at exploring these cliches, and analysing why and how people categorise characters and people. I love Shakespeare, so I love how this focussed on his works and integrated the plays and the meanings of his works into the book.how they integrate his language into their own interactions, making their own lives a work of poetry in the process, is very inspiring. If We Were Villains had the potential to be truly awesome and it ended up being a complete and utter clusterfuck. it opens up a lot of questions about what will happen next, but it was a nice little surprise in a story i thought had already ended. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. 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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Second, James sending the Pericles letter is important because it refers to the bit where Pericles thinks he will be drowned at sea with his wife, only to discover she never drowned at sea and is alive. Colborne wishes him well, and Filippa, who has visited Oliver every two weeks during his time in prison, informs him that James committed suicide years ago. In general, the whole reason behind Oliver being in jail in the first place makes no fucking sense at all.That they do so in the belief that they are not guilty is quickly shown to be an illusion as their complicity in his death tears them apart, individually and as a group.