Bond Fans Not Fans of New Book
While the book is selling like hotcakes, 007 fans are not feeling the love. About Devil May Care, the “new Bond” book written by Sebastian Faulks “in the style of” series creator and writer Ian Fleming (who died in 1964), Bond fans are saying:
- “Anyone who thinks this style re-creates Fleming, or is evocative of Fleming, hasn’t read Fleming.”
- “The weak story, weak villain motivation, and weak action scenes which left me feeling cold.”
- “It feels like a homage, not a serious Bond novel. And in the end, you feel like you just went through a pointless encounter with a family member that you lost contact with years ago.”
Filed under: book reviews, readers advisory, bestsellers, james bond, spy novels on June 11th, 2008