If We Were Villains

I need language to live, like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt this before.

Slow, winded mysteries aren't really my thing, and in my opinion the actual mystery in this book wasn't the best I've read. The atmosphere of this book however....

It's so brilliantly delivered. Set in a theatre school with a found family group of Shakespearean scholars, the dark academia air was so amazingly RICH. The writing is beautiful.

Now I'm not someone who has an extensive knowledge about Shakespeare's works, and I feel like if I had read the works that are explored within this book it would've been an even more amazing experience for me, but nevertheless I still loved reading how the author brought those scenes alive and weaved then into her narrative. The characters were complex and very well built. I loved how they always had a quote ready for all occasions.
 I enjoyed this for the experience it was!