M. L. Rio

Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends - a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened ten years ago. As a young actor studying Shakespeare at an elite arts conservatory, Oliver noticed that his talented classmates seem to play the same roles onstage and off - villain, hero, tyrant, temptress - though Oliver felt doomed to always be a secondary character in someone else's story. But when the teachers change up the casting, a good-natured rivalry turns ugly, and the plays spill dangerously over into life. When tragedy strikes, one of the seven friends is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

If We Were Villains

Lexi D

For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me. 

Lieke Nieuwlaat 

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Ashlyn Barrett

Aimee :)

Florence

How tremendous the agony of unmade decisions. 

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María | @AltroReader

You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough. 

Julia Acd

Bianca Miller 

Emma Hak-Kovacs

Lili V Guba

"You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough."

rini

Emily McMeans

Tija

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Victoria Justice

Stephanie 

Heather

Luna 🌙

Amanda Autumn Berrey

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”

darby

Larissa Campos

Clara Gauthier

But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.

kemi

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