This book was a little slow to get into for me, but once you got past the introductions of everyone and the political set-up the book moved very quickly. I’ve always been drawn towards mysteries, and this book keeps you guessing until the end. The series reminds me of the Da Vinci Code books with it’s fast-action, running around of the characters, and finding clues along the way. I would recommend this book for any gender to read, and especially readers who like this type of genre.
“Cases rarely come much colder than the decades-old disappearance of teen heiress Harriet Vanger from her family’s remote island retreat north of Stockholm, nor do fiction debuts hotter than this European bestseller by muckraking Swedish journalist Larsson. At once a strikingly original thriller and a vivisection of Sweden’s dirty not-so-little secrets (as suggested by its original title, Men Who Hate Women), this first of a trilogy introduces a provocatively odd couple: disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist, freshly sentenced to jail for libeling a shady businessman, and the multipierced and tattooed Lisbeth Salander, a feral but vulnerable superhacker. Hired by octogenarian industrialist Henrik Vanger, who wants to find out what happened to his beloved great-niece before he dies, the duo gradually uncover a festering morass of familial corruption—at the same time, Larsson skillfully bares some of the similar horrors that have left Salander such a marked woman.” – –Amazon.com
* Side note – It’s sad the author passed away in 2004 before seeing how popular his books would become.
Have you read this book? What did you think? What rating would you give it?
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Thanks for the follow – following back! His books are on my list to read. I recently gave my friend the series for her birthday and was slightly jealous – I should have gotten myself a set, as well! 🙂
That is sad that the author did not get a chance to see his books come to life. I have the first two of the books in paperback and haven’t gotten around to cracking them open. I wish I hadn’t seen the movie before reading the book.
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