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Killing Eve: where to start reading
Adapts Killing Eve (Villanelle) by Luke Jennings. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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4 seasons
on screen
3 books
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Codename Villanelle.
through the end of the first novel.
The first season closely adapts the first novel, with the show's own voice layered on top.
Start reading at Codename Villanelle (the first novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Codename Villanelle
Luke Jennings · Book 1 of 3
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What the show changed here
- ChangedEve is British in Luke Jennings's novellas but reimagined as Korean-American, played by Sandra Oh, on the show.
- ChangedThe assassin's birth name shifts from the book's Oxana Voronstova to the show's Oksana Astankova.
- MovedThe two leads barely meet in the first novella; the show pulls their cat-and-mouse face time much earlier and makes it central.
- InventedOn-screen roles such as Kenny, Elena and Bill are invented, and the book's male handler is recast as Carolyn.
- ChangedPhoebe Waller-Bridge layers a black-comedy, fashion-forward tone over the colder, more oblique novellas.
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Season 1 closely adapts the first novel, Codename Villanelle. From season 2 on the show runs its own course: each season had a different head writer, and the later novels (No Tomorrow, Die For Me) share DNA with the show through the author's involvement but do not line up season-for-season.
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