Killing Eve No Tomorrow Book Review

Book Title: Killing Eve No Tomorrow (book 2)

Author: Luke Jennings

My Rating: 4*

Publisher: John Murray

Publication Date: 25/10/18

Genre(s): Spy thriller, Crime

Pages: 246

Format Read: Hardback

Goodreads:

In a hotel room in Venice, where she's just completed a routine assassination, Villanelle receives a late-night call.

Eve Polastri has discovered that a senior MI5 officer is in the pay of the Twelve, and is about to debrief him. As Eve interrogates her subject, desperately trying to fit the pieces of the puzzle together, Villanelle moves in for the kill.

The duel between the two women intensifies, as does their mutual obsession, and when the action moves from the high passes of the Tyrol to the heart of Russia, Eve finally begins to unwrap the enigma of her adversary's true identity.

After I read the first book in the Killing Eve series I was so disappointed (full review here). I thought the books were going to be as good as the TV show but book 1 let me down. I was very wary as I began to read book 2 as I had low expectations, but this one was much better! I have also just finished season 2 of Killing Eve and it has gotten so much crazier, from Villanelle’s disturbingly creative kills to the sexual tension between her and Eve, it is one of the best TV shows I have watched this year. I definitely recommend the show over the books even though they have got better.

Killing Eve No Tomorrow reads like a continuous story which made it so much easier and enjoyable to read unlike book 1 which was 4 short stories brought together as one. This made the story flow smoothly and the reader could follow the story nicely. The series carries on almost immediately after the ending of book 1 with MI6 agent Eve Polastri questioning Dennis Cradle on his possible connection to the Twelve hoping to find out more information about the assassin she is fascinated with to hunt her down.

The story of Villanelle, the assassin working for secret order the Twelve, continues with her biggest challenge yet; to kill a Nazi fantasist in a mountain hotel and the only way of getting in and out is by helicopter. There is character development for both Eve and Villanelle, as the two women finally meet in this book and their interactions are filled with tension and a little bit of fear mixed with excitement for Eve. However, Villanelle’s fixation with Eve causes problems for the Twelve and so something must be done to restore the order. The cat and mouse play of the two characters makes for a thrilling read as we follow Villanelle across Europe with Eve close behind with the obsession, excitement and tension between them becoming full force up until the end which finishes with a cliff hanger that will leave you thinking of all different kinds of possibilities for the future of both women.

The only thing that continued on from book 1 that I did not like is the way Jennings described every woman in the book based on their looks giving them a very sexual appearance, including the detail of the sexual encounters which made it painfully obvious that this book about two strong women was written by a man.

Although the book series is a lot different to the TV show and not what I expected, it is worth getting through the slow start of book 1 to continue the series and I hope book 3 is even better. Full of intense action the book ends on a cliff hanger leaving the reader needing to know what happens next. The third book in the series titled Die For Me is due to be released March 2020 so we have to wait a long time!