If We Were Villains

by M L Rio

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“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
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Rating: 4.5 stars

This book. I'm still reeling from the ending and everything that happened in it, and its been a few days since I finished it. What to say about it, hmm. Oliver, the main character, is an amazing narrator for this specific book. He knows that people are flawed, and that his friends, and himself, are flawed as well, but he will stick with them to protect them. Half the time I wanted to commemorate his perceived selflessness, and the other half I wished to just shake him until he found some common sense.

If you don't know anything about this book, perfect. It's best to just jump in knowing its a dark academia book that will slowly kill you and everything you ever thought was innocent in the world. I wish I could just start from the beginning again and find all the foreshadowing and easter eggs bound to be in the book. The only reason that I dare to not rate this five stars is because I wished to go in depth with some of the characters more. I know that some information wasn't important to the main plot points, but I do wish I could have learned more about the other six characters.