However, the book still retains a certain charm and is definitely a page turner. I thought that was such a shame because the TV series really does stand out for it’s quick wit and black humour. It was also nice to see a few glimpses of the humour of the TV series but unfortunately it was nowhere near as frequent or as well done.

You just have to remember to suspend your belief from time to time. I mean, it’s still an overtly glamourous, ridiculously premised spy thriller so it’s never going to win any literary awards but it’s also super fast paced, exciting voyerism. The whole narrative flowed better, there was more content, the characters were more fleshed out. I’ll start with a nice positive – this book was far more coherent than the first one (Codename: Villanelle). The two women are locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, with Eve edging ever closer to Villanelle and the secretive organisation that she works for – only to find out the extent to which she’s been manipulated. In No Tomorrow, the main characters remain as in the first book Eve Polastri (MI6 agent) and Oxana Vorontsova (Villanelle, sociopath and assassin). To be honest, by the time I’d finished this book the show had deviated so utterly from the text that I wasn’t even sure if it had taken the book into account, was going to do so in the next series or if Pheobe Waller Bridge was just forging ahead with her own storylines from now on. No, you haven’t read this review before – this is the second instalment of the novels that the Killing Eve TV show was based on. Similar to: Something by John Le Carre or Ian FlemingĬould be enjoyed by: People who liked book one

Villanelle no tomorrow