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The middle book of the Millennium series, The Girl Who Played with Fire breaks away from the mystery genre of its predecessor and turns into a thriller of dramatic proportions - all while setting the stage for what is sure to be a climatic ending of the series, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.
Salandar is the most salient aspect of these books, and there is no doubt that she deserves the spotlight. Sometimes when she was not the main focus I was waiting impatiently for her perspective to co ...more
Salandar is the most salient aspect of these books, and there is no doubt that she deserves the spotlight. Sometimes when she was not the main focus I was waiting impatiently for her perspective to co ...more
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I’m a little sorry I got caught up in this series, esp. since reading all three books in import versions is going to cost me about $38 and I’m not at all sure it’s worth it. Mill II is more plodding than Mill I—if there was ever a book to which the phrase “workmanlike prose” belonged, it’s this one—and it’s about ten times more confusing (the plot really does become a delirium at a certain point, especially with 75% of the characters named (and I’m not kidding) “Eriksson,” “Jakobsson,” “Svensson
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Dear Girl Who Played With Fire,
We had it so good in the beginning. You were such a knockout! I wanted to love you. I really, really did. But we couldn't keep up our momentum.
I loved our long nights exploring Salander and her bizarre world. That's what brought us together. That's what made you shine! But it disappeared at about page 200. And I started seeing other books because I only wanted to know Salander's story and you weren't telling it. Sorry. You were telling completely tangential stories ...more
We had it so good in the beginning. You were such a knockout! I wanted to love you. I really, really did. But we couldn't keep up our momentum.
I loved our long nights exploring Salander and her bizarre world. That's what brought us together. That's what made you shine! But it disappeared at about page 200. And I started seeing other books because I only wanted to know Salander's story and you weren't telling it. Sorry. You were telling completely tangential stories ...more
I was really looking forward to reading this after the first one. With the first one, I had been told to hang in for the first 50 pages or so, and I did. After that is swung along nicely. Not so with the Fire book. I found it pretty heavy going and although was cross by the end. Too much we already knew and if we hadn't read the first book I don\t think we needed to know, at least not so much. In my opinion, it needed a heavy edit.
Will I read the next one? I was tempted to say no, but I hear Hor ...more
Will I read the next one? I was tempted to say no, but I hear Hor ...more
I liked this better than the first book of the trilogy. You get into the action much faster, and you spend more time with the only character of the first novel that was truly interesting: a female hacker with what sounds like Asperger Syndrome. Can't wait to see the movie of book 1, out now in Swedish, and read book 3 (THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST), out now in hardback.
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the first 200 pages ALMOST made me put the book down but it began to get a lot better after a while.
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