Low key don’t care for L*ke Jennings speaking on the finale because his books were also pretty terrible.
I never really liked them, particularly because of how poorly written the character of Eve was. She was very one dimensional and watered down in the books, and ultimately became like a side accessory to Villanelle in the third book. I felt like her personality was so drastically dropped in order to cater to Villanelle’s story. Eve felt very much like how a male author would write a female character and it was just…bad.
That’s why I always praised PWB for how much she changed Eve and made her a fully fleshed out complex character. Not only that, but she also then hired Sandra to play her which was the best thing she could’ve done. For people who don’t know, in the books Eve was suppose to be a young 29 year old white woman. But PWB changed that and I can’t thank her enough because to make Eve a middle aged woman of color added so much to, not only Eve, but that entire relationship. It was like taking a ray of light and shining it into a kaleidoscope, opening up new possibilities, complexities, nuance, and overall adding so much color and vibrancy to that character…not to mention she gave me my age difference queer love story, and I’ll always be grateful lol.
But it wasn’t just Eve that the books did poorly, it was also Eve and Villanelle’s relationship. It is way more cold and harsh in the books, with Villanelle treating Eve like absolute shit in the third one. I didn’t like it. There were some fun interactions in the first two books between them, but by the third Villanelle becomes really awful to Eve and even cheats on her. It didn’t sit well me.
Also, and I’ll probably get criticized for this, but I did feel like the third book fell too hard into pandering to the audience with Eve and Villanelle’s relationship which made it feel cheapened and exploitative almost. As much as I want these characters to be together I also want it to feel warranted by how much work was placed into that development, and the books fell flat for me. Not to mention that they were having sex literally after every chapter, which that idea is nice, but the way that it was done and written just felt like a lot of pandering which ruined it. Even though the show botched the ending, I still think they did an infinitely better job at developing and exploring their relationship than what the books did.
There were also other issues I had with the books (there was a non binary character who also received some poor and even homophobic treatment in the third installment). But that’s kind of my overall thoughts.
He may have rightfully criticized the ending. But it’s very much the pot calling the kettle black.
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