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The Girl who Played with Fire |
Focusing again on weird Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist, this is even better than the first in the Millennium trilogy - (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, bwl 54). As well as continuing themes from the first book, it introduces new but connected strands without seeming obvious or laboured, and sets things up nicely for installment three. It is brilliantly written and credit must go to the translator. But it's not for the faint hearted, so gird your loins for some violence.
(Annie Noble - bwl 55 Winter 2010) |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
Forget the story (though it's an interesting one) but get to know Mikael Blonquist (disgraced journalist and ladies' man) and Lisbeth Salander (psychic case but brilliant hacker) because there are two more books to be published soon. And then you'll understand that unhappily for us this author died prematurely. . .
(Laurence Martin Euler - bwl 46 June 2008) |
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
An ageing Swedish Industrialist - convinced that his great-niece was murdered decades ago by a relative - hires journalist Blomkvist to unearth the truth. By chance, Blomkist meets Lizbeth Salander, an asocial punk and computer genius and together they become a classic detective pair, hunters becoming the hunted . . . it's those bleak winters, arid landscapes and dark characters which make you long to curl up with an Anne Tyler - but you can't.
(James Baker - bwl 53 September 2009) |
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