![]() ![]() The barely-written-at-all supporting cast are also nowhere near as interesting as the TV versions prepare for the thrilling adventures of stock spy colleague, stock hacker kid, stock assassin guy, stock Chinese person, and so on. The book’s Villanelle is not the badass mischievous psychopath infatuated with her pursuer as Jodie Comer plays the role, but just another unexcitingly-written assassin who has some dull sex scenes with strangers in between killing people and musing over her tragic past of killing people. In the book’s version of the world Eve is after Villanelle not because of the appealing self-questioning or confused obsessiveness Sandra Oh’s Eve displays, but simply because she’s the good-spy character who is angry that her colleague was killed by the baddie. ![]() ![]() This is just a standard spy thriller, a bit on the dull side, with one-dimensional characters and a meandering plot. As a total admirer of the BBCA television series “Killing Eve,” which is based on this, and as someone who is so often the “but the book was better” guy when it comes to adaptations, I wanted to like this book so much more than I did. ![]()
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