Jul/090
Devel May Care
New book commissioned by Ian Fleming’s family written by Sebastian Faulks in Fleming’s style.
Very enjoyable read. It certainly felt like one of the series in terms of both the style, speed of motion through the book and levels of action and excitement.
You do have to smile at the choice of the ‘bad guys’. Yes Fleming did get into the habit of giving each of his villains a certain flair or ‘tick’. This book is no exception in that regard.
For all that there was one sceen that I thought was both pointless and in fact a step away from the Bond of Fleming. Where as he is driving through London two individuals on motorbikes try to kill him. There were a number of thing I felt that were wrong with this:
- Bond had only spoken with 4? people and it had only been established that he was to travel and in fact explore this Dr Gorner character. That’s pretty fast work for anyone!
- This had ‘almost’ happened to Bond before (ThunderBall). In that instant even through Bond hadn’t pulled the trigger he had still been detained by the Police until M could sort it through his connections. Why now, does Bond just carry on regardless? sits funny with me…
There were also a couple of cliché’s in terms of a couple of the characters. I’ve already mentioned our villain of the piece, then there was the hard as nails henchman, the head of service in Iran/insert name of ‘backward country here’ type man and the love interest (that one maybe not soo cliché if I’m honest).
There was also a couple of ‘guessable bits’ through the book but it did manage to hold out for quite a long time before confirming your suspicions so I don’t really class that as a negative (reason to continue reading!).
To give it a rating… 4 out of 5 maybe? I did enjoy it, It felt like a bond book and I would definatly ready anymore that Faulks pens like this.
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