Reviewed by Adriana
“Enter the players. There were seven of us then, seven bright young things with wide precious futures ahead of us. Until that year, we saw no further than the book in front of our faces.” Ten years after the tragedy that haunts the past students of Dellecher Classical Conservatory, Oliver Marks is finally ready to recount the horrors of his 4th year. The lies, the deception,
For those who have read Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, these stories are very similar. If We Were Villains follows a tight knit friend group as they navigate their fourth year at Dellecher Classical Conservatory. Dellecher is a school of ambition, competition, and murder.
If We Were Villains is a mystery fit for fall.