Location : Cleveland, OH
Lisabeth Salander, whom we met in The
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,
returns to Sweden from a year of living abroad. It has been an interesting
time for Lisabeth; she has matured, made some changes in her appearance,
and has been working on the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, which states
no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an
+ bn = cn for any integer value of n greater
than two. Salander is a very complex woman, as we discovered in The
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Stieg Larsson reveals more about her past
in The
Girl Who Played with Fire, but
takes a different tact. Where Salander was central to the discovery of
the evil in the previous novel, she plays a different role in this installment;
she is the prime suspect in three murders. As such, she goes underground,
while Mikael Blomkvist, one of the few people that believes she is innocent,
races to save her and discover the real killer.
The three people murdered in this novel are Bjurman, Salander's guardian who had brutally raped her in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Dag Svensson, a writer finishing an explosive article about the sex trade for Blomkvist’s magazine, Millennium, which threatens to ruin the reputations of quite a few men, among them policemen and a judge, and Mia Johansson, Svensson’s girlfriend and researcher. Svensson mentioned to Blomkvist, in their last conversation, that he had a new lead on a mysterious gangster, known as Zala, whom he wanted to track down before his article (and book) went to press.
This book works as well as the first one. Larsson's two central characters inject themselves into the reader's mind, creating a craving that can only be slaked by reading more about them. Salander and Blomkvist are unique individuals, incredibly professional, and, even more importantly, vulnerable. Salander, while appearing irrational or violent, has a morality that is hard to ignore. Blomkvist has a personality "flaw" that causes him to methodically build his case for Salander's innocence; he wants his research to be above reproach. It's a welcome trait that sets him apart from his journalism peers. It can be infuriating to the reader, causing the pages to be turned at a rapid pace. The ending of The Girl Who Played With Fire may be gory and harrowing, but it's Salander and Blomkvist's mutual need for one another that make it transcend the horror.
Disclosure:
Obtained from: Book store
Payment: Purchased
Technorati tag: book review Stieg Larsson
The three people murdered in this novel are Bjurman, Salander's guardian who had brutally raped her in The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Dag Svensson, a writer finishing an explosive article about the sex trade for Blomkvist’s magazine, Millennium, which threatens to ruin the reputations of quite a few men, among them policemen and a judge, and Mia Johansson, Svensson’s girlfriend and researcher. Svensson mentioned to Blomkvist, in their last conversation, that he had a new lead on a mysterious gangster, known as Zala, whom he wanted to track down before his article (and book) went to press.
This book works as well as the first one. Larsson's two central characters inject themselves into the reader's mind, creating a craving that can only be slaked by reading more about them. Salander and Blomkvist are unique individuals, incredibly professional, and, even more importantly, vulnerable. Salander, while appearing irrational or violent, has a morality that is hard to ignore. Blomkvist has a personality "flaw" that causes him to methodically build his case for Salander's innocence; he wants his research to be above reproach. It's a welcome trait that sets him apart from his journalism peers. It can be infuriating to the reader, causing the pages to be turned at a rapid pace. The ending of The Girl Who Played With Fire may be gory and harrowing, but it's Salander and Blomkvist's mutual need for one another that make it transcend the horror.
Disclosure:
Obtained from: Book store
Payment: Purchased
Technorati tag: book review Stieg Larsson
Powered By : Domino
BlogSphere V1.3.1
Join The WebLog Revolution at BlogSphere.net