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“Everything AND Nothing.”

Revisado: 04-01-24

Disclaimer: I am a James Bond superfan and completist. I will read and support ANYTHING about my favorite franchise. But this missed the mark- and not because it didn’t have 007 in it. I applaud the choice of telling the story of different 00 agents, I applaud the inclusion of meaningful diversity in MI6, and I appreciate the attempts to weave in literary references as obscure as Trigger, Gen. Nikitin and Mary Ann Russell.
But the execution ends up “everything, AND nothing” - way too long, way too many ingredients slapped in, too many characters we don’t care about and don’t know why we’re spending time with, too little quality time spent with the villains, and not enough of the Bondian flavor. Fleming worked because he wrote short. Punchy. Brutal. I recognize the difficulty in updating this feel to modern times, but this missed the mark.
And then…. SPOILERS:
Turning Q into a computer? Making Tanner the mole? A bridge too far.
That said, I will be reading the next book - if only as a completist, and not with enthusiasm.

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