I enjoyed this trilogy of books.
I like when there are different plots and characters that you would otherwise think have nothing to do with the other and the author somehow weaves them together. The girl with the tattoo, Lisbeth Salander, is paired together with the owner of a financial magazine, Mikael Blomkvist, and both appear to be from opposite ends of the world – but they work together to solve a 40 year old murder mystery.
The first book starts a little slow with the background info of who is who, but it picks up well and continues strong. I watched the movie after because I know they tend to leave out a lot. The movie was good also.
In all three books and movies, they did a few things differently, but it didn’t take away from the main story line – Lisbeth Sanders is intelligent, a bit of an introvert socially and she is the key to all the questions the story seeks to answer. I never knew what the real story was here, other than she was some sort of detective, but the story is about a lot more than that. She worked for a security firm and is excellent with computer – but once again, you’re gonna have to read the story to find out anymore!
The 2nd book, the Girl Who Played With Fire was good as well. It continued with the same major characters as book one and added a few others. The movie was good but the book always give you more back story, mostly into the minds of the characters.
The 3rd book, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest sums up everything from the first two books.
All in all, a page turner if you can get past all the history the late author gives. Each book is about 400 pages each!
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I would guess that you recommend reading the books in the order that you have listed them in your review. How do you feel about seeing the movie The Girl Who Played With Fire before reading the book?
Thanks for the nice review.
Why thank you for taking the time to respond! I think the order is based on the blog setting - most recent post on top. I prefer to read the book first, then see the movie. In this case, I watched the movie almost right after reading each book. Had it cued up in the VCR! In The Girl Who Played With Fire, there were scenes/plots in the book that didn't make it into movie. For example, in the movie, they showed 1 scene where Lisbeth was in a hotel room/then next she was back home, however in the book there were a few chapters that had a plot about something that happened while she was on vacation in which she rescued a woman in a storm - that never made in into the movie - I'm sure because of time constraints. BTW, I will be editing my review to note that I read these as ebooks. Gotta keep up with the times!
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