If We Were Villains

Oliver and his six friends are in their last year of school at Dellecher Classical Conservatory. All seven are actors in training who do nothing but Shakespearean plays. If We Were Villains is told ten years later, as Oliver is released from prison, and with Oliver recounting to the officer who investigated his crime the truth of what happened ten years earlier.

I listened to this book on tape during thirteen hours of driving. It felt interminably long, with huge passages of unnecessary detail, characters who were tedious and obnoxious, and incessant lines of Shakespeare.