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A review by ezrasupremacy
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
5.0
i don’t know when and if i will ever have the words to fully describe what reading this book felt like.
i’ve been wanting to read this literally since it came out, but through years of simply never reading much i didnt end up coming around to it until now, and i’m almost thankful, who knows if i would’ve been able to appreciate it this much otherwise.
at first when i started reading i had some apprehension since i hate first person narrators, but it’s so well done that it just kind of, faded into the background, in a way? and it definitely worked WELL for this book.
i don’t even know how to begin talking about the characters - at first i saw them as a bit overdrawn, kind of like caricatures, but the more you got to know them and saw behind the role they were playing the more you grew to love each and every one of them.
the end was, of course, heart wrenching, and i don’t even want to think of any theories or anything, because i think i will never know peace again if i do. all i can say is that i love oliver and i love james and my heart is so broken for them that it physically hurts.
if i could give 10 stars i would.
i’ve been wanting to read this literally since it came out, but through years of simply never reading much i didnt end up coming around to it until now, and i’m almost thankful, who knows if i would’ve been able to appreciate it this much otherwise.
at first when i started reading i had some apprehension since i hate first person narrators, but it’s so well done that it just kind of, faded into the background, in a way? and it definitely worked WELL for this book.
i don’t even know how to begin talking about the characters - at first i saw them as a bit overdrawn, kind of like caricatures, but the more you got to know them and saw behind the role they were playing the more you grew to love each and every one of them.
the end was, of course, heart wrenching, and i don’t even want to think of any theories or anything, because i think i will never know peace again if i do. all i can say is that i love oliver and i love james and my heart is so broken for them that it physically hurts.
if i could give 10 stars i would.