No Tomorrow

I really thought I could read this series, but it's impossible. It is so dumb. Initially I gave Luke Jennings a pass. I thought that maybe he wanted to do something here, create a certain type of character, give a certain vibe to the story, but it became painfully obvious that this is one of those dreaded cases known as 'male writing female'. I was in denial while reading the first book, but I have seen the light.

There was a particular phrase in the book that I will write here word by word, same format: "She's saying I've got your measure, and compared to me you're a loser. She's saying I can give you all the things you want - the intimate, feminine, super-expensive things - but can't have. It is a woman-to-woman thing."

After reading that, Mr. Luke Jennings, what the fuck are you on?

Besides this painful fact, the book is unreadable because of one other reason: the plot is so plain and the dialogue is so stiff. While the plot has nothing clever about it, the dialogue also dumbs it down, I felt insulted.

I am grateful to Luke Jennings for coming up with the idea and inspiring the Killing Eve TV show, but this is all I can be happy about because the book series itself is trash.

This is the second of the Killing Eve trilogy (the books that inspired the AMC show). Eve Pilastri is working for MI6 trying to track down a female assassin whose codename is Villanelle. Both characters are very fun. The story moves very quickly and ends up in some surprising places. Lots of killing and kinky sex hijinks. I devoured it like candy.