Reviews - The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Series

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The Girl in the Spider's Web: Continuing Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo Series

David Lagercrantz

3.57 AVERAGE

hannah3445's review against another edition

4.0

mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

mlcutter's review against another edition

4.0

challenging informative mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Back in the early 2000s I kept hearing about The Millenium Trilogy and how amazing it was. I started The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo once and stopped, but then picked it up again a year later and made it all the way through. Even having a toddler, I finished the whole trilogy in a week. The first book took me three days and the next two only four. I blame these books for my reading obsession now.

This book was like meeting an old friend, even though the writer is different. This is great fan fiction, basically as Stieg Larsson passed away before the third book was finished. This one is written by the same author who finished #3.

Its long, incredibly detailed, although not quite as detailed as Larsson's books, and full of great characters, spme new, some old. Although Lisbeth Salander doesnt appear until about page 100, and she is definitely softer than the original character, I still enjoyed her. Maybe it's my fondness for people who are on the spectrum. I also loved August Balder, a boy on the spectrum who witnesses a murder, but is unable to give a description, or so it seems.

As always, Lisbeth is a defender of abused women and children and has the opportunity to punish a few men who defy her. I think at the end she would have been a lot more harsh toward one man than she was written in this book.

I'm not sure I will read the rest of the series, but I did enjoy revisiting this series.

audreyjaydene's review against another edition

4.0

Another good Millennium novel - I really enjoy the characters and the ending always has me hooked!

brittanycolvin's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

xoxcharm's review against another edition

3.0

This book started out really slowly. It took me days to get through the first 80 pages, and then the last two sections flew by.
I think Lagercrantz did a decent job keeping the spirit of the characters created by Larsson.

nique6287's review against another edition

4.0

Favorite take no prisoner hacker is back!. I enjoyed this book but you can't read it expecting Steig's writing. accept it for what it is and just go with it. You get more of Lisbeth, perhaps a bit tamer but overall the story was true to who the characters are and we got to meet the twin sister!. I can't wait to read the next one.

lilkingtrashmouf's review against another edition

2.5

ugh, I wanted to like this, if only because I wanted more Lisbeth and Mikael...but everything is just a hazy (lazy?) reproduction of the characters and writing that came before it.

Continuation of the series is purely a money grab, and it loses all its teeth. The author barely understands the source material, and clearly doesn't have the same passion or interest in the characters and social issues...or women for that matter.