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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
9/10. Nothing but love for this series as a whole. Steig Larson has a special place in my heart for bringing this book series to life. I respect what Lagercrantz did with the last 3 books but the last one felt drug out & contained a whole NEW set of characters.
Lisbeth is one of the greatest characters I’ve ever read about. I learned so much through these six books & i recommended all 6.
Lisbeth is one of the greatest characters I’ve ever read about. I learned so much through these six books & i recommended all 6.
David Lagercrantz has picked up where Stieg Larsson left on when he died after completing the first three Millennium novels. He continues the story of Lisbeth Salander and other characters such as Mikael Blomkvist, Erika Berger and many others. Lagercrantz writes with a very similar voice to the late Larsson and the continuing story carries well. Some authors who have tried to continue a deceased writers characters have not pulled it off. For example the team of writers who continue putting out books with Robert B. Parker's characters just can't do terse dialog as well as Parker. I don't read those books. I won't say too much about The Girl Who Lived Twice. Journalist Mikael Blomkvist digs up another scandal in the highest levels of business and government. Adventures ensue.
I read these books because I am hungry to hear more about the lives of Lisbeth and Blomkvist, and you do get that in this book. Unfortunately, it is a rather pale and anemic version of them. I am undecided as to whether I will read a Millennium #7...
This has got some interesting bits and it’s a quick and entertaining read, but it doesn’t measure up against the original trilogy. For one, I feel like Lisbeth has almost been made a secondary character. We don’t see much of her here, and what we do see is rather passive and uninteresting.
The story is really focused on Blomkvist. Something I find fascinating about these books is how important the fourth estate seems to be in Sweden. I’m not well-informed enough to know whether this is actually the case, but in this book it seems that everyone knows the names of journalists and that there are myriad important print news sources. It’s just not the kind of thing we see or hear much of in North America.
The story is really focused on Blomkvist. Something I find fascinating about these books is how important the fourth estate seems to be in Sweden. I’m not well-informed enough to know whether this is actually the case, but in this book it seems that everyone knows the names of journalists and that there are myriad important print news sources. It’s just not the kind of thing we see or hear much of in North America.
I don't know if after Stig Larsson died and David Lagercrantz took up the writing if he is better in style or if he got a better translator but the series now reads faster and is easier to read. Really liked it.
Another well-written complex GwtDT book. A stranger beggar dies, and investigations indicate a hidden story on a mountain in Nepal. In the meantime, Salander and by extension Blomqvist continue to be engaged in a war with her evil twin.
Fun read but a step down from the previous stories. Seemed a little contrived or forced.
It wasn't awesome. I think the conspiracy storyline would have been good by itself, but it feels as though the canon Millenium characters Lisbeth, Mikael, and even Erika, have been watered down. I was really impressed with the first three books, because it seemed Larsson truly did "get it" and that he loved women. Lagercrantz's story seems well-intentioned. It's not bad, it's just not exactly Millenium, either. In the original books, Larsson casually introduced or touched on topics still considered a little radical or just not discussed enough and you had to think about them. It made for lively book discussions for sure. But in these books, I can't help wondering if Lagercrantz is just being too careful with well-loved characters to flesh them out as they deserve, or if he didn't want to deal with different story lines, or if he wanted to bring the storylines around to a different view point. No spoilers, but I was very disappointed with Erika's story going in the direction it has.