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Originally Posted by siraks
ha i was going to read this soon as well, but after mentioning the books i had on a short tbr list a friend told me to leave bond to the movies and read something else.
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Your friend is probably right. I kept feeling that Deaver was trying to write with an eye on what the cinematic effect would be. He even says at one point about the reflection of flames in a woman's eyes "It was a striking image". I felt this got in the way of the storytelling.
He also tries to reference back to the older Bond stuff - one character is called
Felicity Willing (echos of
Pussy Galore etc.), and in the Daniel Craig days of a grittier Bond, I didn't think it worked.