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C) which partially relates back to the indecisive grounding of point 2, absolute zero is unattainable as the amount of work required increases the closer you get, it would therefore require an infinite amount of work to achieve. The first in a planned trilogy, and as a Bond completist, I will probably soldier on to the next one in the hope it improves.
I am (as far as I know and my friends *don't* tell me), devoid of bigotry, married to a POC, with friends of every persuasion and yet the author's methods of ensuring representation are clumsy and read like a checklist that pulls one out of the story. Let those of us who are going to get them, get them with just the one clue and feel clever, and move on for those readers who are less obsessive about Fleming's back catalogue. This is an interesting novel with the whole woke universe as a 00, a woman, a deaf man and a Muslim. The prose is overly "flowery" and some of the similes and metaphors are nonsensical, a notable example of which is when a tiger's footfalls (pawfalls?
De 3 simultane locaties en geheime agenten duidt dan weer op het mondiale karakter van de superrijken. The opening of this book got straight into the action, introducing new characters and setting us up for the rest of the novel.
Aside from new characters, Sherwood also masterfully walks the tightrope of including classic characters we know and love, like M, Q, Tanner and Moneypenny and updating them smartly. Unfortunately, to my mind, these connections were not enough to turn around what was, at base, a fairly mundane spy thriller. Anyway, I was bored with it and read it just to finish it and move on to something better I'm afraid. Kim Sherwood is a lifelong Bond fan who cites Pierce Brosnan's GoldenEye as the 007 film that grabbed her attention: "I was soon hooked on Ian Fleming’s novels.
The hand positions that Harwood is described as maintaining during pursuit driving would not afford good control of the vehicle. I’ll likely read the next contribution to this trilogy, but I hope I don’t need to be introduced to an entire new crop of 00s and learn all their foibles and quirks through flashbacks and narrative detours. The writing style is disjointed, with frequent jumps back to the past in the middle of action scenes, or bizarre asides that offer nothing but needless exposition. That's not to say the writing is lazy or slack, but actually the opposite, maybe the authour is trying too hard.