jkb reviewed The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Review of 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Can't wait for the third book!!
503 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 2009
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
4 stars
(18 reviews)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. The book features many of the characters who appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine. Widely seen as a critical success, The Girl Who Played with Fire was also (according to The Bookseller magazine) the first and only translated novel to be number one in the UK hardback chart.
Review of 'The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
Some of what struck me as eccentricities in the first book emerged as more mature features of an extended plotline in this second book. Some readers may be uncomfortable with the ambiguous portrayal of sexual relationships in this book, but I can see now a bit more of how this fits into the chracters that Larsson is weaving in the series. Lisbeth is certainly a creative heroine, and the critical undercurrent in the series against some of the profound blind spots in our supposedly Enlightened (in this case Continental) provides good food for thought. At the most basic level, this was a very engaging read and I'm looking forward to the third novel in this series.
