Book info

• Title The Girl Who Played with Fire
• Author Stieg Larsson
• Year 2006
• Genre Thriller

Lisbeth Salander can be viciously violent. Mikael Blomkvist knows it ­- and owes his life to it. When a criminologist and a journalist who works with Blomkvist at Millennium magazine are killed on the brink of publishing a brutal exposé of human trafficking, the evidence points in one direction. Salander's prints are on the murder weapon. But Blomkvist knows Lisbeth would never act without reason, and he cannot find one here. The victims were his friends. But so is Salander. Something much more dangerous is surely at play...

Thoughts

I read the first of this trilogy and I wasn’t 100% convinced, but the story had me intrigued enough to attempt the second one. It’s quite different but also quite the same. The first half of the book is really just a catch up, seeing what the characters have been up to. The story itself is slow burning, and it isn’t until about halfway through that it really starts to kick in. These bits are quite similar to the first.

The plot is different though. Rather than a mystery with certain aspects of a thriller, it is much more of a thriller first. Very much shoot first, ask questions later.

I wouldn’t really be that bothered to read the third in the series except for three things: 1) I’ve already bought it. 2) I would prefer not to have just read two out of three. 3) The cliffhanger is kinda intriguing. Darn it.

Rating: 2 / 5