The Girl Who Played With Fireby Stieg Larsson
I previously reviewed and gave 5 stars to "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," which is the first in a three-book series by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" is the second book in the series and brings back the two main characters, journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the unique heroine Lisbeth Salander.
In this novel two of Mikael's colleagues are murdered during their investigation of a scandalous sex-trafficking ring; their soon-to-be-published magazine article and follow-up book would expose important members of Swedish society, including police officials and members of the government responsible for protecting victims of the sex trade. Thanks to fingerprints found on the murder weapon, the primary suspect is identified as Lisbeth Salander.
As Lisbeth remains a fugitive, Mikael throws himself into the investigation in order to prove Lisbeth's innocence and find the real killer. Throughout the novel he makes shocking discoveries about Lisbeth's past that help explain why she's so antisocial and strange.
This novel was just as fast-paced and intriguing as the first. I knocked off a star simply because some elements of the action were a little hard to believe, i.e. the ways in which Lisbeth kept eluding not only the police but a group of men who were trying to track her down and kill her before anyone else could find her. She has an uncanny way of escaping death that could only be fictional, but at the same time it made the book that much harder to put down...
The verdict: 4 stars out of 5
I previously reviewed and gave 5 stars to "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," which is the first in a three-book series by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. "The Girl Who Played With Fire" is the second book in the series and brings back the two main characters, journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the unique heroine Lisbeth Salander.
In this novel two of Mikael's colleagues are murdered during their investigation of a scandalous sex-trafficking ring; their soon-to-be-published magazine article and follow-up book would expose important members of Swedish society, including police officials and members of the government responsible for protecting victims of the sex trade. Thanks to fingerprints found on the murder weapon, the primary suspect is identified as Lisbeth Salander.
As Lisbeth remains a fugitive, Mikael throws himself into the investigation in order to prove Lisbeth's innocence and find the real killer. Throughout the novel he makes shocking discoveries about Lisbeth's past that help explain why she's so antisocial and strange.
This novel was just as fast-paced and intriguing as the first. I knocked off a star simply because some elements of the action were a little hard to believe, i.e. the ways in which Lisbeth kept eluding not only the police but a group of men who were trying to track her down and kill her before anyone else could find her. She has an uncanny way of escaping death that could only be fictional, but at the same time it made the book that much harder to put down...
The verdict: 4 stars out of 5
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