
If We Were Villains
M. L. Rio
2017

Donna Tartt · 1992
608 pages
Richard Papen leaves California for an elite Vermont college and is drawn into a tight circle of classics students taught by a charismatic professor. Accepted among them, he becomes part of a murder committed before the story begins, and of the slow unravelling that follows.
Dark Academia, Unreliable Narrator, Morally Grey Character, Betrayal, Melancholic, Found Family