jbridges3 's review for:

Killing Eve: Die for Me by Luke Jennings

2.0

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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.