6/8/2023 0 Comments Of we were villains![]() ![]() (a story set 30-40 years ago about an elite close-knit group of pretentious college students studying some sort of ancient subject you’d never get a job in for all those good dark academia vibes, they are all way too melodramatic and sentimental, and one of them is kind of a jerk– oh, surprise, now that one’s dead. There were many things I didn’t like about it and it felt quite derivative of The Secret History. I have quite mixed feelings on this book. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.“ My Thoughts: But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago.Īs one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. On the day he’s released, he’s greeted by the man who put him in prison. ![]() “ Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail – for a murder he may or may not have committed. ![]()
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