The Girl Who Played with Fire by Steig Larsson
Read: April 2011
An interesting start to the book as you try and work out how long after the first one this is set. Is it immediate? A year maybe? More or less? I found the narratives difficult to follow at first as the story kept swapping between characters and everyone was unconnected.
About a quarter of the way in though the connections start and you see what game Lisbeth is playing and the game that Kalle is playing too. After all that happened in the last book, Lisbeth and Kalle don't actually cross paths until the book is almost over. This is very fresh and means they develop individually rather than merging together - although it's quite funny to see Kalle pining after her.
I think I figured out the connections about a chapter before they were revealed, but I did still have to have them explained for me to really get it all. A good read though - yes, learning more about the enigmatic Lisbeth was interesting, but also that she was allowed to develop individually, rather than being shaped by Kalle. I also appreciated the fact that the experts were questioned - their opinion and conclusions about her mental health had been taken as fact, but this book finally (in the closing chapters) started to show the weaknesses in the mental health system and society.
Read: April 2011
An interesting start to the book as you try and work out how long after the first one this is set. Is it immediate? A year maybe? More or less? I found the narratives difficult to follow at first as the story kept swapping between characters and everyone was unconnected.
About a quarter of the way in though the connections start and you see what game Lisbeth is playing and the game that Kalle is playing too. After all that happened in the last book, Lisbeth and Kalle don't actually cross paths until the book is almost over. This is very fresh and means they develop individually rather than merging together - although it's quite funny to see Kalle pining after her.
I think I figured out the connections about a chapter before they were revealed, but I did still have to have them explained for me to really get it all. A good read though - yes, learning more about the enigmatic Lisbeth was interesting, but also that she was allowed to develop individually, rather than being shaped by Kalle. I also appreciated the fact that the experts were questioned - their opinion and conclusions about her mental health had been taken as fact, but this book finally (in the closing chapters) started to show the weaknesses in the mental health system and society.
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