Showing posts with label the girl who played with fire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the girl who played with fire. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson


Just finished reading the third in the Millenium Series.  I know I am late, but considering how often I get to read for enjoyment, I am not too late.  So many of my friends still haven't picked up The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo as yet.  Thus, I am writing a review to follow the reviews of the first two I have written about this trilogy, Tatoo, just mentioned, and The Girl Who Played with Fire.  Question, am I still as blown away as I was with the first two?  Answer, I am still hooked.  Maybe I wasn't as blown away as I was with the first because I found the heroine to be so atypically captivating and so unexpected.  She wasn't the normal lady gumshoe, or the super-undercover agent, she was a hacker with a serious anti-social attitude. 

Stieg's last book was still worthy of its hardcover purchase, though I have to admit, getting through the background and the build-up taxed me at times.  Yet, I continued to read knowing that I would get the suspense that I craved.  This third in the series gave me the feeling that there was a fourth rolling around in his head before he passed, because there was one glaring question not answered about her sister.  Not satisfactorily to me, anyway.  But, if you are interested in political intrigue, and enjoy an ensemble of good, bad, and gray characters, this bunch of deceivers are right up your alley.  The journalist who threads all of the books together with his first sensational story is a middle aged love them and leave them womanizer named Mikhael Blomkvist who spends most of his time digging up dirt on the bad guys and trying to stay alive in the process.

I recently watched the Swedish version of the The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, can't wait to see the American version to compare.  Without a doubt, I am still a fan. 

Dilsa Saunders Bailey

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.