
Codename Villanelle
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Narrated by:
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Yolanda Kettle
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By:
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Luke Jennings
About this listen
Please note: this is novella 1 of 4 which make up the Codename Villanelle series.
In a remand centre in the Ural Mountains, Oxana Vorontsova awaits trial for triple murder. Not what you’d expect from a star linguistics student. Half a world away, her potential has been noted. Sprung from prison and trained in the dark arts of assassination, she’s reborn as the beautiful, lethal Villanelle. The price of her luxurious new life: to eliminate targets assigned to her by a shadowy group of all-powerful businessmen.
©2014 Luke Jennings (P)2015 W F Howes LtdFirstly, it isn't the complete book. I've read Codename Villanelle & was disappointed to find that the audio book stops less than 1/2 way through. Some investigation shows that the book was originally 4 kindle singles then released as 1 book but the audio is only 1 of the singles. If you're going to do that you need to make it very clear & not call the whole book the same name as 1 of the singles to avoid confusion.
Secondly, the narrator was just wrong for the book. I actually really liked her, thought she did a good job, & will actively look out for her in a the future, but she was all wrong for a this. The main character here is ice cold, arguably a sociopath. Anytime she interacts with anyone she is manipulating them and it's all on her terms. The narrator just couldn't pull that off, she was too personable, too nice.
I found the audiobook to be entertaining & if it had been the whole book (or cheaper) I probably would have given it 4 stars, but overall it was a little disappointing.
Entertaining but disappointing
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The narrator is outstanding and, I believe, cannot be improved upon.
Enjoy.
Utterly compelling
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great short story
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Very annoyed
codename villanelle
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Thoroughly enjoyable
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too short but enjoyable
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A must read
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Une histoire courte mais captivante qui établit et dénoue effectivement le personnage de Villanelle. Dommage que la lectrice ait une voix ennuyante qui manque toute intonation ou emotion - elle ne rend pas du tout justice à l'histoire.
Great story, bad reader/belle conte lectrice nulle
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The main character seems implausibly to hover between full on psychopathy and caring about her pursuer.
This is just about bearable in the TV show, but not so when this is explained in more detail in the book
at least this saved me ordering the other 2
Watch the TV shows - they are better
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Too short!
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