Luke Jennings
Autor de Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle
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Conocimiento común
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- male
- Nacionalidad
- England
- Educación
- Rambert School
- Ocupaciones
- Dancer
Dance Critic
Journalist
Author - Biografía breve
- Luke Jennings is an author and the dance critic of The Observer. He trained at the Rambert School and was a dancer for ten years before turning to writing.
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- 15
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- 923
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- #27,803
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 35
- ISBNs
- 72
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- 5
“Codename Villanelle” has some core workings of a fun spy thriller, namely the cat and mouse game between government operative and paid assassin, as well as boasting a slew of locations from China to London to Paris, all which make fun settings for the drama that happens.
However, these elements are sort of squandered with incredibly dry and, quite frankly, boring writing. The dialogue is missing any sort of spunk or life, and the characters themselves are FLAT. I’m reading this novel having just wrapped up watching S3 of the TV adaptation and I am deeply happy that the show was taken into fresh hands, reworked, and then directed by women because this novel just lacks VIGOR. It very much feels like the outline of a novel that was supposed to be 500 pages of exciting storytelling but then the author died and the publishing house said, “Well, let’s publish the outline anyways and see what happens?” It’s very much a case of a great book idea that has been written in a lackluster manner.
In addition to the writing of action & plot, I was disappointed (yet not truly surprised) with how Jennings writes his female characters. He just fails to really dig into their minds and instead just tells the reader how each character supposedly feels or thinks, but they lacks depth. Actually every character, not just the women, are lacking, but it's especially a letdown having a book about women doing cool, badass (and illegal) things have the writing of the women be so one-dimensional.… (más)