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Good writing in a different style of writing from the swedish shores,at first starts off bit detailed or shall we say technical in journalistic sort of white collar crime investigation, but all that is spiced up with a femme fatale shes walking time bomb, Blomkist and her become interesting characters.The story is page-turner, for the length of story it is the writer does not fail to keep you interested till the end. The story tends to go bit far at times with extreme violence and evil that men
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Worldwide known bestsellers'trilogy about tiny, unsociable and increadibly smart girl/young woman involved into state level conspiracy plan. What is true, what imagined - who knows. Maybe someone is going to dig for approval or disapproval of events described as there is quite wide of Swedish politics and history. Not me. I read it just as an intertainment. And you know - I liked the books despite the fact detective stories are not my genre at all. I do not find any excitement in guessing who is
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This book had the potential to be really, really good, were it not for two glaring issues. Firstly, I think it needed a really heavy editorial hand to cut down on the MOUNTAINS of unncessary detail (which detracted SO much from the story, and which, if removed, could have literally cut out 100-odd pages of this tome of a book); and secondly, it could have done without the shameless product placement/plugging of various computers, websites, authors, books etc. Authors always take a while to find
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This was excellent. I liked the structure and the slightly different characters. I suspect it lost something in the translation. I've started the next one of the trilogy now.
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Dec 03, 2011
Erika Floyd
marked it as to-read
