3.51 AVERAGE


3.5.

So... i didn't know this was going to be the end of supposedly the second trilogy, and I am also already wondering if it is going to be the last one or....Lisbeth Salander remains one of the best characters in this type of novels and I will always be happy to read some other stuff where she is involved....

Quindi a quanto pare siamo arrivati alla fine sella seconda trilogia e mi sto giá chiedendo se potrebbe essere l'ultima, anche se non ci credo. Resta il fatto che Lisbeth Salander resta uno dei migliori personaggi in questo genere di romanzo e non mi dispiacerebbe continuare a leggerla.

THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE ARC

Definitely not my favorite Lisbeth Salander novel.

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.

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.

Finished in almost one sitting, couldn't put it away.

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.

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.