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

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Before Colborne can make an arrest, Oliver confesses to Richard's murder, using a slightly tweaked version of James' story. He is intelligent, charismatic and talented but is haunted by his past and struggles to come to terms with his role in a tragedy that happened ten years earlier. Similarly, the narrative delves with the concept of fate and the notion that one’s choices might have far-reaching consequences.

Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U. Each student is mailed an envelope containing their casting assignment and the scenes to prepare, as well as instructions not to share the information with any of their peers. A young, Chilean fight choreographer, personal trainer, and movement coach for acting students at Dellecher.Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U. It’s impossible not to feel caught up in the webs she creates: in the thorny tangle of guilt, frustration, and longing, the rivalry, the blurred lines between love and hate, the fractured loyalties and determined single-minded violent obsessions that can never end well for most but make for one hell of a story for the ones who survive to tell it. For Macbeth, the annual Halloween play, Richard is relegated to the role of a spirit when James is cast as Macbeth. 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. Oliver Marks, the main character, believes himself to be the least talented member of the acting troupe, a middle child whose father is vehemently opposed to him becoming an actor.

Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.I was able to look past a lot of the cheesy and over the top moments because I really truly wanted to have a good time reading this. He visits Oliver in jail one last time, asking him to tell him the truth now that Colborne is set to retire from the force. its quite clever and beyond invigorating - the type of book that fully immerses you whilst reading it.

This isn’t a book focused on plot twists; I figured out most of the plot points here, actually, aside from a couple mini reveals. Friendship and Betrayal – The story focuses at the complexities of friendship among a group of Shakespearean players at a prestigious arts institution, as well as how they deal with jealously, competition and betrayal.Oliver admits that he was in love with James while they were together, but says that he also loved her.

their development and depth was so mesmerizing and i couldn’t help but be amazed by the foreshadowing of each characters fate. Asshole Victim: Richard becomes truly despicable and gets into conflicts with most characters before he's killed. If you don't believe me, please read this fanfic because it's the only true ending that we all deserved. And so begins a tale of friends who attend an elite acting school for Shakespeare, where the characters and words they become every day start to distort their own perceptions of themselves.

The clock on the mantel struck twelve, and we stirred, one by one, like seven statues coming to life.