The Girl who Played with Fire - (Millennium Trilogy Book 2)

A Review

Author: Stieg Larsson

512 pages

List Price: Rs. 380

My review of this book is again right on. But before I shed more light on the same here is some background info on the author.

Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was a Swedish writer and journalist who passed away in 2004. Prior to his death he finished three novels (Genre: detective novels) in his trilogy "The Millenium-series" all of which were published posthumously. They are:

1. "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo",
2. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and
3. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"

You can read more about the author here: http://www.stieglarsson.com/

Let me get back to the book and talk about my thoughts on the same. This book, part – 2 in the three book series is again a complete page turner and a thriller.

I give the author a 4.5 on 5 for packing another great thriller in the 500 plus pages.

This book starts where the first book left off. It begins with Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist going their separate ways and Blomkovist having revived his career as a top financial journalist.

Soon enough you get a taste of the wizardry of Stieg Larsson when he spuns the story quickly and makes Lisbeth Salander the ‘most wanted’, fugitive woman of the country. And guess what Mikael Blomkovist comes to the defense of this woman for whom all have the vilest of thoughts and comments to share.

From here on the story moves ahead in rapid strides that make the book almost impossible to put down.

The only downside is that a person who would start into this series from this book, Book no. – 2 might find it a little touch to cope up with the who’s who of the novels’ characters.

Apart from that this book is a must read! As always, you read and decide! My final verdict: 4 on 5.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - (Millennium Trilogy Book 1)

A Review

Author: Stieg Larsson

608 pages

List Price: Rs. 350

My review of this book is right on. But before I shed more light on the same here is some background info on the author.

Stieg Larsson (1954-2004) was a Swedish writer and journalist who passed away in 2004. Prior to his death he finished three novels (Genre: detective novels) in his trilogy "The Millenium-series" all of which were published posthumously. They are:

1. "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo",
2. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" and
3. "The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest"

You can read more about the author here: http://www.stieglarsson.com/

Moving back to the book, I’d say that reading it is worth every penny invested in buying it.

The very first page will enchant you with the unsolved mystery of the flowers being sent to an old man for more than past 30 years of the days & times of the novel.

If you are already hooked on and you move on to the next couple of pages you will hear the story of a certain ‘Mikael Blomkvist’ who is one of the main characters of the novel. He is a financial journalist who is about to loose a case against a giant industrial conglomerate and is about to be sentenced to jail for libel.

As if this were not enough, the author throws another parallel story of a thin almost anorexic lady who is struggling to be sociable.

Then comes the show stopper an offer to investigate the disappearance of a young girl from a small island in Sweden more than 30 years back in history, a case police till date had not solved.

The simple yet nice way in which the stories became entangled to form a complex and then the appearance of the ‘Dragon Tattoo’.

From here on the story becomes so enchanting that keeping the book down will feel like it hurts. Trust me, I hated the idea of not having been able to finish the book in a weekend and then waking up to find a lot of pages left still and the clock showing Monday morning; absolutely hated the idea of going to office.

The only thing that I did not like was the unfolding of the final moments of the plot. It seemed kind of abrupt and was not at all subtle.

You read you decide! My rating 4.5 on 5.