Reviews - The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

327 reviews for:

The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

Karin Smirnoff

3.11 AVERAGE

jamills1125's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

the_nik83's review against another edition

3.25

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sohxpie's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

As a thriller novel, this book is pretty great. It's got a solid plot that all links together cleverly and a whole cast of characters to keep you busy. It's difficult to fault it from the genre's perspective. The issue is when you look at it as a novel in the Millennium Series. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite fit. You follow Lisbeth and Mikael as usual but they feel very much like secondary characters, it took far too long for Lisbeth in particular to be introduced in the novel. I think the author tries to include the perspective of too many different characters, sadly at the detriment of the two main characters. If you had asked me who the protagonists were, I would have probably said Svala and Henry. Svala, I can understand. Being Lisbeth's niece, there is the potential to continue the story with her. Henry, I do not understand. Yes he's an important part of the story but that could have been displayed in other ways without him taking the spotlight. It was just frustrating reading a Millennium book to see the story develop with Lisbeth and Mikael only to get something completely different. I want to say Smirnoff has done a great job at continuing the series but that wouldn't be entirely truthful, if she writes another installment, hopefully the focus shifts to where it should be. Overall, an enjoyable thriller but as it fell a bit short as part of the series, I was left a bit disappointed.