{"id":1887,"date":"2020-04-23T15:51:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2020-04-23T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T14:51:43","slug":"review-killing-eve-die-for-me-by-luke-jennings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-killing-eve-die-for-me-by-luke-jennings\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Killing Eve: Die for Me, by Luke Jennings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is the third, and final, book in the series that began with <em>Codename: Villanelle<\/em>.  When I first read about that book, I was very keen to read it &#8212; and was not disappointed.  The second book in the series, like the television show <em>Killing Eve<\/em> which is loosely based on the books, was something of a disappointment.  And this third volume is, as expected, not even close to the standard of the first two books, and is no match for the <em>Red Sparrows<\/em> trilogy by Jason Matthews.  The plot is absurd, the characterisation only skin-deep, and characters die and are reborn again with such frequency that there&#8217;s hardly any menace (why worry about a character dying when they might easily reappear in the next book, or even the next page?).  Not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third, and final, book in the series that began with Codename: Villanelle. When I first read about that book, I was very keen to read it &#8212; and was not disappointed. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1889,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}