shannonla 's review for:

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

4.0

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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The first half is kind of slow paced; introducing SO MANY characters and sub plots. Don’t get me wrong I devoured it trying to get to the bottom of the mystery. The second half is action packed. There’s some twists that were obvious and some that I didn’t see coming. Definitely written by a man 😏 but I still thoroughly enjoyed 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder