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kellyhager 's review for:
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Trilogy
by Stieg Larsson
Mikael Blomkvist is the publisher of (and reporter for) Millennium, a magazine that's devoted to uncovering corruption. After a story goes bad (to the tune of a libel suit and jail sentence), he accepts an offer to investigate a missing person's case.
Harriet Vanger's been missing for decades. She disappeared from an island while the only way out was blocked due to a car accident. The man who hires Blomkvist was like a father to Harriet. He's pretty sure she's dead but he wants to know what happened and who was responsible. Eventually, he hires Lisbeth Salander, ace hacker and awesome person (but incredibly antisocial). (She's the girl with the dragon tattoo.)
I feel like this book took a ridiculous amount of time to get going but once Mikael arrives on the island, it becomes almost impossible to put down.
A lot's been made of the fact that the translation for the Swedish title is "Men Who Hate Women." And that's deserved, because there's a lot of violence toward women in this. So be aware that there are multiple rapes in here and also some pretty gruesome deaths. (It's not dwelled on, per se, but there are images in my head now--bad ones.)
I definitely want to read the other two and I hope that Stieg Larsson's family and girlfriend come to some sort of agreement so the fourth book can be completed and released.
Harriet Vanger's been missing for decades. She disappeared from an island while the only way out was blocked due to a car accident. The man who hires Blomkvist was like a father to Harriet. He's pretty sure she's dead but he wants to know what happened and who was responsible. Eventually, he hires Lisbeth Salander, ace hacker and awesome person (but incredibly antisocial). (She's the girl with the dragon tattoo.)
I feel like this book took a ridiculous amount of time to get going but once Mikael arrives on the island, it becomes almost impossible to put down.
A lot's been made of the fact that the translation for the Swedish title is "Men Who Hate Women." And that's deserved, because there's a lot of violence toward women in this. So be aware that there are multiple rapes in here and also some pretty gruesome deaths. (It's not dwelled on, per se, but there are images in my head now--bad ones.)
I definitely want to read the other two and I hope that Stieg Larsson's family and girlfriend come to some sort of agreement so the fourth book can be completed and released.