Take a photo of a barcode or cover
sanguine_katzen 's review for:
The Girl in the Spider's Web
by David Lagercrantz
The beginning was a lot of effort to slog through. It reminded me a lot of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in the sense Lagercrantz was building the complicated foundation and back story to introducing the Russian Duma- and Lisbeth's evil twin, Camilla. Admittedly, I suspected Kira was Camilla. Camilla is the only one left of Salander's family, save for her half siblings.
In some respects, I felt like he was trying TOO hard to be like Stieg instead of allowing the story to flow better, but all in all I liked the book. However, this is also where I felt he succeeded at taking over Stieg's franchise; he created a complicated back story and plot, and delivered on twists that prevented you from putting the book down.
He didn't do a lot of product placement like Stieg did [when Lisbeth first bought Fiskargatan, he named every single item she bought for that house from IKEA], he did name drop encryption apps. I thought it was interesting that in this book, Android phones are the safest to encrypt, and he provided some app names. Can't remember what they are right now, but I can look them up if anyone is interested.
I enjoyed the open ending and am curious to see if he's hired to write a fifth book.
In some respects, I felt like he was trying TOO hard to be like Stieg instead of allowing the story to flow better, but all in all I liked the book. However, this is also where I felt he succeeded at taking over Stieg's franchise; he created a complicated back story and plot, and delivered on twists that prevented you from putting the book down.
He didn't do a lot of product placement like Stieg did [when Lisbeth first bought Fiskargatan, he named every single item she bought for that house from IKEA], he did name drop encryption apps. I thought it was interesting that in this book, Android phones are the safest to encrypt, and he provided some app names. Can't remember what they are right now, but I can look them up if anyone is interested.
I enjoyed the open ending and am curious to see if he's hired to write a fifth book.