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3.31 AVERAGE
3.31 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This is going to be a tough review for me because I'm a huge fan of the first book and a pretty solid fan of the second. However, all good things come to an end. And book three in this series was quite a letdown for a few reasons. First, Eve has gone from a strong MI-6 agent with purpose to Villanelle's "pupsik" without any spine of her own. Unless you put her in mortal danger she's just an emotional mess and it is truly sad to witness. Second, I have to hide this behind spoiler tags because it is just entirely inexcusable that the "piss tape dossier" was used to create the big reveal assassination in this book. I will be straight, I'm NOT a Trumper, I despise the man... but I also can't imagine someone just flat stealing the subplot in American politics and turning it into their apex story plot. It is lazy and unacceptable. It truly ruined the book for me. Finally, the story book ending masquerading as a love lost was a trope I wasn't surprised by. You don't get lazy with the big finale only to kill off a main character. And low-and-behold he didn't. So in summary, all good things have to end however, I'd have rather it ended much better than this.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very different from the two previous books, feels unnecessary for the story to be complete.
adventurous
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
The increasingly implausible Killing Eve series climaxes with the pair running away to Russia
Not as good as book 2, but massively better than S3 and S4 of the show!
This is the third, and final, book in the series that began with Codename: Villanelle. When I first read about that book, I was very keen to read it — and was not disappointed. The second book in the series, like the television show Killing Eve which is loosely based on the books, was something of a disappointment. And this third volume is, as expected, not even close to the standard of the first two books, and is no match for the Red Sparrows trilogy by Jason Matthews. The plot is absurd, the characterisation only skin-deep, and characters die and are reborn again with such frequency that there’s hardly any menace (why worry about a character dying when they might easily reappear in the next book, or even the next page?). Not recommended.