![]() ![]() The latter is struggling to balance her increasing obsession with Villanelle, and a husband who would greatly prefer it if she was not jetting off to Venice or Moscow at a moment’s notice, leaving him to open a tin of beans. To that point, we had more of the cat-and-mouse games between the international assassin codenamed “Villanelle”, and harried MI-5 operative Eve Polastri. I’m really curious to see whether the TV show follows suit, because if so – nothing will be quite the same again. I have to say, well-played: I don’t think I’ve ever been quite as stunned by a twist in a novel before, yet thinking about what had gone before, it made perfect sense. Then, just when I was expecting this to wrap up and set the stage for the second season, Jennings drops a major bomb. Indeed, by the end, we have almost got to the same point as at the end of the TV show, albeit by a rather different route. The second book does make a significant effort to narrow the gap. ![]() Kick-butt quotient: ☆☆½ “I’m just you without the guilt.”Īs we recently discussed, the first book and first season of the TV series had some major differences. ![]()
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