![]() ![]() The book is beautifully written with understated wit. ![]() She knows that she doesn’t think or feel like others do, but she watches them carefully and mimics them. Villanelle is not only a gifted killer, she is also an accomplished actor, liar and charmer. However, having watched the TV drama Killing Eve I was interested in reading Codename Villanelle, the book that inspired it, for two reasons – firstly because, after a promising start I didn’t love Killing Eve as much as I expected to (and as much as everyone else apparently does) and secondly because Codename Villanelle was a self-publishing success story before it was picked up by a traditional publisher.īoth Codename Villanelle and Killing Eve introduce us to Villanelle, a clever and ruthless assassin who targets high-profile victims worldwide, at the request of an agent called Konstantin. This isn’t because I get upset when things are changed – they’re different art forms so they make different demands – but because I feel like I already know what’s going to happen so there’s not much to discover. ![]() ![]() I don’t normally do this: compare books and their adaptations, preferring to enjoy one and forget about the other. ![]()
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