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The Girl Who Lived Twice
by David Lagercrantz
Lisbeth Salander has been watching her sister for months, waiting for the perfect time to make her move. Blomkvist will do anything he can to help her, but he's in some trouble of his own. An unidentified man was found dead, with Blomkvist's number on a scrap of paper in his pocket. As Blomkvist investigates the death he discovers the mysterious man had a connection to a prominent government minister, forged during an ill fated climb of Everest many years earlier. It's up to Blomkvist to work out what really happened on the mountain, and whether it is linked to the death of a man in Sweden all these years later.
This book picks up fairly swiftly where book five left off. Salander is on the run, hiding from her murderous sister. Blomkvist is working on his story about the financial crisis caused by hackers. The financial crisis story is soon put to one side though, as we get into the investigation that makes up the bones of this book - a dead homeless man with links to the government defence minister.
I enjoyed reading about the investigation into Minister Forsell and the trip up Everest. I thought Lagercrantz did a good job of detailing the climb and the difficulties the climbers faced. Lagercrantz also does a great job of unveiling the events that happened on the mountain slowly, keeping the reader hooked as the book progresses.
The Salander storyline has been a long time coming, and I'm glad that we seem to get some closure on this story arc. It will be interesting to see where Salander goes from here.
I appreciated the addition of Catrin as a new character. I'm hoping her and Blomkvist may work together on their investigations in future books. I'm generally reluctant to praise journalists and reporters, I find them unliveable as characters. Blomkvist has worked himself into my favour though and I can see Catrin going the same way.
Another fantastic instalment of the Millennium series, hopefully there is still more to come.
This book picks up fairly swiftly where book five left off. Salander is on the run, hiding from her murderous sister. Blomkvist is working on his story about the financial crisis caused by hackers. The financial crisis story is soon put to one side though, as we get into the investigation that makes up the bones of this book - a dead homeless man with links to the government defence minister.
I enjoyed reading about the investigation into Minister Forsell and the trip up Everest. I thought Lagercrantz did a good job of detailing the climb and the difficulties the climbers faced. Lagercrantz also does a great job of unveiling the events that happened on the mountain slowly, keeping the reader hooked as the book progresses.
The Salander storyline has been a long time coming, and I'm glad that we seem to get some closure on this story arc. It will be interesting to see where Salander goes from here.
I appreciated the addition of Catrin as a new character. I'm hoping her and Blomkvist may work together on their investigations in future books. I'm generally reluctant to praise journalists and reporters, I find them unliveable as characters. Blomkvist has worked himself into my favour though and I can see Catrin going the same way.
Another fantastic instalment of the Millennium series, hopefully there is still more to come.