tommyro 's review for:

The Girl Who Lived Twice by David Lagercrantz

1.0

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The book should have been titled The Girl Who Should Have Been in this Book More But Wasn't. Our dragon girl makes an appearance in the beginning, pops up a couple of times throughout and then zooms in at the end on her bike. Not enough of Lisbeth and too much of other people I didn't care about. It's about very rich people who go mountain climbing. Don't care about them. There's an accident. Well du'uh! Don't expect me to care about you if you go somewhere you shouldn't. Too many flashbacks about the accident on the mountain. The book is stuck in the past looking backwards so it lacks forward motion. With Lisbeth playing a minor roll, the story moves like a glacier. Maybe somebody else should take over the narrative. If you're handed the greatest protagonist in thrillers in decades and you don't do anything with her, then it's clearly time to hang it up because you've run out of steam.