![]() The narrator of each book feels like an outsider to the group. This is similar to the small group of Classics students from The Secret History. The seven have survived three annual purges and have a close but sometimes tempestuous relationship with each other. There have been more of them in previous years, but Dellecher has a ruthless policy of culling drama students who do not perform well in their productions, often as many as half in the year. They are drama students who exclusively study Shakespeare. In this book, that translates to a group of seven students entering their fourth year at Dellecher Classical Conservatory. Both feature a very small, tightknit group of friends who are cloistered in an elite, but also intense, learning environment. And there are many similarities between the books. If We Were Villains is frequently compared to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, with both being considered classics of Dark Academia. The question is so unlikely, so nonsensical coming from such a sensible man, that I can’t suppress a smile. “Do you blame Shakespeare for any of it?” ![]()
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