Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts

Friday, May 13, 2011

Book Review - The Girl Who Played with Fire



by Stieg Larsson

The second installment of this series was absolutely captivating.  I can't wait to start reading the third and final book.   After that, I am going to happily hunker down and watch the movies.

So, why am so excited about this book?  Here's why.  The female character is unpredictable and extremely deliberate in every aspect of her life.  I can ony describe as a woman who viciously pursues justice and has every right to do so.  I loved the twists, the connections, and how the theatre of characters were elaborately pieced together by Lisabeth's own cape crusader, the journalist that wormed his way into her heart in the first installment (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo).

You have to read it.  Lisabeth Salander is a classic and unforgettable character.  Michael Blomkvist isn't too bad himself.  You can get lost in this novel with Lisabeth and Michael as the story of an unthinkable crime against your own develops one page at time.

Reviewed by  Dilsa Saunders Bailey, author of Dreams Thrown Away, a romantic suspense novel and the first in the series of The Sperling Chronicles.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Book Review - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
 
A peculiar heroine emerges in this book as she doesn't fit the typical beautiful, statuesque woman with guts syndrome. Instead, she is a defiant, dangerously brilliant Goth chick with piercings in her face and a dragon tattoo on her shoulder. Throughout the book she doesn't realize that her passion for what should be right is as great as her passion to be left alone in her own unique universe with her own set of morals and ethics. The girl with the dragon tattoo surprises herself by teaming up with an embattled journalist to uncover the gross iniquities and horrors of two of Sweden's biggest journalistic stories ever to be told. This book was fantastically engrossing. It stood up to all the great things I had heard about it and that rarely happens. I recommend it wholeheartedly. Can't wait to begin the sequel.