Tag: if we were villains

• Queer Book Recs to Celebrate Pride Month

  It is Pride Month in New Zealand, so for today’s post I have a collection of book recommendations for you with LGBTQ+ themes and characters, some of which are also written by authors who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. With so many perspectives, experiences, and voices to listen to from this community, I thought…

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  February 8, 2025

  Discussion Posts

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• M.L Rio’s Graveyard Shift is Full of Gothic Horror Detail

  I’ve been stewing on Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio for a few weeks, digesting my thoughts and emotions and working out what to write for this review. I have seen a wide stretch of responses and reviews, some people hating it while others didn’t mind it, and though I personally haven’t seen anyone love this…

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  December 28, 2024

  Horror, science fiction

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• The Dark Academia Read of the 2020s is R.F. Kuang’s Babel

  Dark academia is a popular genre among young readers, and it has made a resurgence over the last decade or so. Babel, R.F. Kuang’s powerhouse of a novel published in 2022, is the dark academia book of the 2020s, sitting next to Donna Tartt’s The Secret History and M.L Rio’s If We Were Villains of…

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  October 25, 2024

  dark academia, Historical Fiction

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• If We Were Villains – Shakespeare Has Never Looked So Good

  If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio has been big on TikTok for years now, especially within the Dark Academia sphere. This massive cult following and the short-form content style of TikTok compounded to make me hesitant and outright avoidant of this book. I have tried other Dark Academia favourites TikTok recommended and have been…

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  June 27, 2023

  Contemporary Fiction

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