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.

Holy shit, what a ride!

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.