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Die For Me by Luke Jennings
3.0
Overall a similar rating to the first book. Right off the bat I did spot several spelling and grammar mistakes…
The main thing I did not enjoy was the amount of times Anton and Richard misgendered Charlie. Like the first time he “accidentally” said ‘she’ it was amusing considering how much he hates anyone who is not a man I guess, but in total I counted ten separate occasions and every time it happened I got more and more annoyed. There was no reason to keep bringing it up and I honestly didn’t see much reason to suddenly make a character nonbinary. It added nothing to the story except the misgendering. The reason as to why felt like an afterthought. At least it showed you how open minded Eve is being interested in how they found out they're nonbinary and even helped them choose a new name.
There were less straight up wtf moments which there were dozens of in the second book and the sex scenes were less uncomfortable. There were some sweet villaneve scenes that I enjoyed, but once again you could feel that a man wrote it…
One thing I didn’t really get was the way villanelle treated eve at times. I get that her being a psychopath is a big topic in this one, but some things were just too random considering that she said she has never felt this way with anyone and some of it was just to make eve jealous?? V isn’t dumb and I do think to some extend she understands how it made Eve feel and that normal people can fall out of love. Like being so mad that you throw a can of beans at someone isn't just fun “I’m trying to make her jealous bc I want to see if she really loves me” you know? Or the way they interacted in the container? It just wasn’t V at all and any sane person would’ve walked away (thankfully Eve isn’t the most normal person either…)
There was a significant amount of political stuff and all of the secret tunnels and whatnot which didn't really interest me personally.
The ending was definitely better than the one in the show which I’m very content and satisfied with. I’m glad they're trying to make things work and that V is still her smart and competitive self as well as Eve choosing psychology. It just fits.
In the end I would say that it’s worthwhile reading the books if you have watched the show and having the way they are portrayed on tv as the basis of this makes the books a lot better. If I had not watched the show I would not have read all three books. The writing style is not awful in the slightest though my main problem is the fact that you can tell it was written by a male journalist. The whole book series is like a rollercoaster ride of loving and hating parts of it, though overall I did enjoy it and would give it a 3.25
The main thing I did not enjoy was the amount of times Anton and Richard misgendered Charlie. Like the first time he “accidentally” said ‘she’ it was amusing considering how much he hates anyone who is not a man I guess, but in total I counted ten separate occasions and every time it happened I got more and more annoyed. There was no reason to keep bringing it up and I honestly didn’t see much reason to suddenly make a character nonbinary. It added nothing to the story except the misgendering. The reason as to why felt like an afterthought. At least it showed you how open minded Eve is being interested in how they found out they're nonbinary and even helped them choose a new name.
There were less straight up wtf moments which there were dozens of in the second book and the sex scenes were less uncomfortable. There were some sweet villaneve scenes that I enjoyed, but once again you could feel that a man wrote it…
One thing I didn’t really get was the way villanelle treated eve at times. I get that her being a psychopath is a big topic in this one, but some things were just too random considering that she said she has never felt this way with anyone and some of it was just to make eve jealous?? V isn’t dumb and I do think to some extend she understands how it made Eve feel and that normal people can fall out of love. Like being so mad that you throw a can of beans at someone isn't just fun “I’m trying to make her jealous bc I want to see if she really loves me” you know? Or the way they interacted in the container? It just wasn’t V at all and any sane person would’ve walked away (thankfully Eve isn’t the most normal person either…)
There was a significant amount of political stuff and all of the secret tunnels and whatnot which didn't really interest me personally.
The ending was definitely better than the one in the show which I’m very content and satisfied with. I’m glad they're trying to make things work and that V is still her smart and competitive self as well as Eve choosing psychology. It just fits.
In the end I would say that it’s worthwhile reading the books if you have watched the show and having the way they are portrayed on tv as the basis of this makes the books a lot better. If I had not watched the show I would not have read all three books. The writing style is not awful in the slightest though my main problem is the fact that you can tell it was written by a male journalist. The whole book series is like a rollercoaster ride of loving and hating parts of it, though overall I did enjoy it and would give it a 3.25
No Tomorrow by Luke Jennings
3.25
I have very mixed feelings about this one: we get to know more about the twelve which is a nice add on to the show, but only get three kills… (I thought they were the most interesting part of the first book.) and the third one was just so slow burn and it actually bored me for about a hundred pages in the middle of the book.
there were quite a lot of questionable and straight up wtf moments (seven to be exact) where I really had to put the book down and take a minute questioning what the author was thinking. Not to mention the continuing “man writing queer women” that already made me feel uneasy in the first one so I won’t elaborate on some of the over-sexualization and completely out of line jokes.
(If other parts hadn't balanced that out it would’ve definitely gotten a worse rating from me)
Overall you could tell it was written by a journalist and I really didn't care for the parts where it seemed like the author was just trying to show off his knowledge of certain things without really adding to the story. (At least he didn't mention a dozen different guns that I know nothing about in this one.)
In the end I did enjoy the last chapter. A lot of things came together and it made me want to pick up the third part of the trilogy, compared to the end of the first book that did not do that at all.
It gets a 0.25 higher rating than part 1 simply because it ended on a better note for me in comparison
there were quite a lot of questionable and straight up wtf moments (seven to be exact) where I really had to put the book down and take a minute questioning what the author was thinking. Not to mention the continuing “man writing queer women” that already made me feel uneasy in the first one so I won’t elaborate on some of the over-sexualization and completely out of line jokes.
(If other parts hadn't balanced that out it would’ve definitely gotten a worse rating from me)
Overall you could tell it was written by a journalist and I really didn't care for the parts where it seemed like the author was just trying to show off his knowledge of certain things without really adding to the story. (At least he didn't mention a dozen different guns that I know nothing about in this one.)
In the end I did enjoy the last chapter. A lot of things came together and it made me want to pick up the third part of the trilogy, compared to the end of the first book that did not do that at all.
It gets a 0.25 higher rating than part 1 simply because it ended on a better note for me in comparison