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All’s Well by Mona Awad
βI thought tests led to something. A diagnosis led to a plan, a cure. But tests, I know now, never lead us anywhere. Tests are dark roads with no destinations, just leading to more dark.β All’s Well makes for an entertaining if somewhat flawed romp. The novel is narrated by Miranda, a theatre professor in…
1st pov, 3.25 stars, academia, actors, Adult, ALIENATION, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, canada, canadian author, chronic pain, Contemporary, dark humor, disabilities, female authors, feverish, hallucinations, HORROR, illness, MAGIC, MAGICAL REALISM, mental health, mona awad, My reviews, MYSTERY, netgalley, playful style, published in 2021, re-reads, read in 2021, read in 2022, revenge, shakespeare, she is not feeling good at all, stylised prose, teachers, the female malaise, theatre, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, unreliable narrators, weird, womanhood/femininity -
If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
“Actors are by nature volatileβalchemic creatures composed of incendiary elements, emotion and ego and envy. Heat them up stir them together, and sometimes you get gold. Sometimes disaster.” An enjoyable debut novel that delivers plenty of Shakespearean ‘nuggets’.To label this story a mystery is a mistake. It isn’t. It is quite obvious what has happened,…
1990s, 20th century, 3.75 stars, academia, actors, Adult, America, American, AMERICAN AUTHOR, BISEXUAL/PANSEXUAL, books about books, campus, cliques, Contemporary, CRIME, dark, dark academia, drama, female authors, friendships, IF WE WERE VILLAINS, Illinois, it’s about the *yearning*, jealousy, lgbtq+, LITERARY FICTION, literary references, Longing, M. L. RIO, m/m, MURDER, murder mystery, MYSTERY, obsession, psychological, queer, read in 2017, ROMANCE, shakespeare, SUSPENSE, theatre, toxic relationships, UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE, unreliable narrators, whydunnit
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