Thrilling and darkly clever, get ready for a deeper insight into this fantastic villain! I would also recommend watching the series!

A great read. I loved it just as much as the TV series it had me gripped all through the book. Will definitely want more from this author

This is a drama filled exciting read. 

Assassins, action and little humour is just the ticket for an afternoon of escape.

The writing is superb and the plot thickens in book 2 of this wonderful series. 

I love female characters who are ballsy and have a certain edge and Villanelle is brilliantly portrayed.

Dark, brilliant and oh so tense  I cannot wait for the next installment

This book carries on from Codename Villanelle,  Although there is just as much action and excitement, I didn't enjoy it quite as much, perhaps because the novelty of the quirkiness was no longer there.
Nevertheless, a pacy read.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the ARC

Wow. A highly intense book. This is such a high-intense read, pulling you from scene to scene. Really enjoyed it!

I loved Killing Eve so I was desperate to read the original novellas the show was based on - and I wasn't disappointed!

Pacy, thrilling, dramatic, sexy - these are proper edge of your seat reads. The main difference between the TV show and the books is the portrayal of Villanelle. In the novels she's much darker, much more sociopathic and er, there's a lot more sex. The black humour that I loved from the show was missing but I enjoyed the novels in a different way. Delicious and dark, these are a perfect beach read or one to hole up with over Christmas with a glass or two of wine. Pure self indulgence and you're totally worth it!

I'm glad I decided to give this series another go, because the second instalment is so much stronger than the first one. The story has a sense of urgency and a lot of imaginative details that make it a lot more fun to read. The writing of queer characters and women is still occasionally shaky, but there ae fewer problems than in the first one. I'm a little surprised by how much I enjoyed this, after being so annoyed by Codename Villanelle.

I have to confess that I never read the first book, and came across the author's work from the TV series 'Killing Eve'. I (actually our whole family) found it exciting with entertaining, funny and unpredictable plot twists, and waited impatiently for the next in the series. I was so excited to read this, and it has more than lived up to my expectations, with great character development and plot. One of the highlights for me was Eve's faked death.....!

Loved this as much as the tv series and that is saying something! Can’t wait for the next one and would absolutely recommend to everyone!

Not my usual genre but this book had me gripped throughout. Will be looking out for more of the same!

After enjoying the first Killing Eve book I had high hopes for this second. It again really lived up to my expectations, I really enjoyed the way the characters continued to develop and how their individual motivations drew them further into each others' lives. I'm so glad to have read the books as well as watching the tv series, they're very different and each one makes the other a richer experience.

I really enjoyed Killing Eve, the series on the BBC, so when I saw the books, I thought I'd give them to read. It wasn't as good as the series, the writing was a little clunky and the plot was quite long and drawn out (which is more understandable now that I know it was a series of eBooks), I think that the way that they changed it for TV was better. It did however make much more sense in the books when they went to Shanghai. I'm not sure why they changed it to Germany in the series. 

I did like having more details about the characters. Villanelle got a lot more background and detail in Codename Villanelle and it was so cool to see more about her life and the way she became an assassin. In the second book it was Nico who I loved to see more from. In series he was kind of in the background being there and getting annoyed at Eve's growing obsession with Villanelle. But in the book he was funny and quirky. He was so sweet and he had goats. It was worth reading for the antics of the goats. 

The other thing that I liked better in the book was the ending. It was so different from the series and it was far more satisfying. 

I think it was worth reading, but I was off-put by a lot of the sex and the gritty stuff that wasn't really needed. Villanelle was unecessarily crass in some scenes and it just wasn't my thing. I also felt that telling everything about Villanelle's identity in the first few paragraphs took away all the mystery and suspense. The series kept a lot of surprises so it kept you watching and guessing. The book was very lacking in this respect. 

If you loved the series though and want to see more behind the characters and the parts of their personality that had to be dropped for the series, then it's worth reading, but perhaps not if you're not into grimy, gritty crime.

Loved it rather more than I expected to, having found the tv series enthralling and assuming the book would fall short given its different agenda. Very much looking forwards to reading the rest of the series. Would have liked more character insight so hope to get more if that going firwards

Another fast paced thriller from Luke Jennings, it continues right on after the first of the killing eve series ( I had to read the last few pages again just to catch up), with the insider being questioned by Eve but it's not long before Villanelle cleans up the leaks. Eve still thinks she's on the hunt for the assassin and her obsession with Villanelle means she's prepared to do anything to find her, she travels all over the world getting closer to Villanelle but further away from Niko her husband. Again a fast paced spy thriller with only a few assainations this time however they are pretty graphic and imaginative. The writing style is very fact based so runs along at speed and keeps you hooked, I'm sure a little depth of character and description of surroundings and feelings would allow a series of full length novels. Thoroughly enjoyed with thanks to NetGalley for an ARC to review.

Every word is a sniper's bullet to trace right to its target. You. No point in hiding, just read  about Villanelle and Eve and enjoy such accuracy!

I loved reading the book. The only drawback of the story was that I felt it just ended on a cliffhanger and now I have to wait forever for the next one!!

No Tomorrow picks up from where the last book ended. 

Full of action, twists and turns. 

The relationship between Villanelle and Eve and the fascination that they have with each other is alarming but understandable. 

Luke Jennings has created two fantastic female characters and as in the first book, I found myself rooting for both of them for such different reasons. 

I found this book better than the last as the characters appeared more rounded and stronger to me

Codename Villenelle and No Tomorrow – Luke Jennings
Like pretty much everyone else in the world, I watched and loved Killing Eve, which was adapted from a series of short stories by Luke Jennings. I’m not sure if the decision to turn those stories into full length novels or the TV show came first, but both Book one, Codename Villenelle and the sequel No Tomorrow, were both released in 2018 and the lovely people over at netgalley sent me both of them, so here are my thoughts!



Villanelle (a codename, of course) is one of the world’s most skilled assassins. A catlike psychopath whose love for the creature comforts of her luxurious lifestyle is second only to her love of the game, she specializes in murdering the world’s richest and most powerful. But when she murders an influential Russian politician, she draws a relentless foe to her tail. 

Eve Polastri (not a codename) is a former MI6 operative hired by the national security services for a singular task: to find and capture or kill the assassin responsible, and those who have aided her. Eve, whose quiet and otherwise unextraordinary life belies her quick wit and keen intellect, accepts the mission.
The ensuing chase will lead them on a trail around the world, intersecting with corrupt governments and powerful criminal organizations, all leading towards a final confrontation from which neither will emerge unscathed. Codename Villanelle is a sleek, fast-paced international thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction. 

That’s the blurb for book one. I can’t tell you the blurb for book two because SPOILERS for the first book!

For those that have no idea what either of these books are about, they are the story of a cat and mouse style chase between an MI5 operative called Eve and a kick ass female assassin known as Villanelle. We are introduced to Villanelle first, she is in the employ of an organisation known as the Twelve who exist outside of political and regional confines. So far, so normal spy novel. After she manages to do a couple of high profile killings she comes to the attention of Eve who is tasked with finding her and eliminating her. Of course, Villanelle knows all about Eve, what she looks like and where she is. Eve on the otherhand knows very little about Villanelle other than she is smart, blonde and very good at what she does. It is pretty addictive reading.

The first book details Villanelle’s shaping into a master assassin and some of her recent jobs, Eve is introduced towards the middle of the book and their paths finally cross in the second half. The second book sees the two of them becoming increasingly more obsessed with each other as Villanelle continues her murderous quest around Europe and Eve starts to uncover more about the Twelve and how deep the conspiracy goes. The second book is a lot more fast paced and has a lot more action in it than the first one, I got the impression that Luke Jennings was growing in confidence the more he fleshed out these characters and it is something that comes across in the second book in particular. The ending did leave me wanting A LOT more, is there going to be a book three? Man, I hope so!

Codename Villanelle and No Tomorrow are both quite short, easy reads, seperated into long chapters which details various hits and with long running threads going throughout. It is pretty entertaining and delving deeper into Villenelle’s psyche is fascinating, but this isn’t literary genius by any stretch. It’s fun, fast paced and features a pan/bi sociopath as a main character, so for a lot of people, it ticks a lot of boxes.

I’ll be honest… I did prefer the TV show, it is witty and some of the timeline changes make a lot more sense and I think others that have watched the show will be disappointed with the source material. , but these aren’t bad books, and reading about these two women, their backgrounds and motivations gives you much more depth than the show has time to allow.

Basically, these two books are great fun and there is something very charming about them. They’re not your average crime thriller or political assassin kind of stories and as the series progresses I can only see it getting better and much more popular. If you get the chance, read these and then watch the series  for a more well-rounded experience!

Also, FYI, the cover of book two didn’t appear to be any where online when I wrote this… So, I’ll update when one is available!

Thank you for the opportunity to review this book.  

Having enjoyed the TV series 'Killing Eve' I thought I was going to be reading the books of the show.  (the story begins in 'Codename Villanelle)  If you think this you are both correct and wildly astray.  In a way this fits in with the complexity of the plot and characters involved.  Villanelle continues to stalk the pages of this second novel, sinister, beautiful, deadly and funny, while Eve grows, develops and fascinates in a similar manner, as she slowly moves to the truth of the situation she finds herself embroiled in.. The stories of the two women, so similar and so diametrically opposed, travels across Europe, into the the dark heart of the Russian state and back to prosaic London.  

What are fascinating are the characters of the two women and the light touch wit used to describe the action and the supporting cast.  The final assassination is brilliant in execution as is the final double cross executed by Villanelle, with her eye for detail and experience of the macabre being brought into play for a final time.  

It is to be hoped that these two women will return at some time soon.

Carries on from codename villanelle, action filled, twisty, intense. Again good read. Will read next book.