The Girl Who Played with Fire — Read 2010.08.17

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was so good, that I bought The Girl Who Played with Fire almost as soon as I'd finished it:

Larson, Stieg.
The Girl Who Played with Fire. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2009.06.23. ISBN 9780143170105. Book Two of the Millennium Trilogy. 


And it is equally good. And, like with TGWTDT, TGWPWF fulfills the hyped promise as an excellent crime drama with colourful, underdog anti-heroes. And, even better, Larson also continues to highlight media's failure to protect democracy and the problems of corporatist ownership, this time of the media and the motivational problems of greed-based profits. He develops and comments on the problem of government sponsored internal spying and spy-related agendas when they run counter to the diurnal concerns of the citizenry.


And unless you have an extremely strong ability to put down a story in the middle, I suggest that when you buy TGWPWF, you might just as well buy the hardcover of the last book of the trilogy, because the ending of TGWPWF is amongst the best cliffhanger endings I've had the pleasure to read, and the paperback of The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest hasn't been given to the booksellers yet. When I went to reserve it from my local library, I was number 27 in the line, even though the library had eight copies of it in their stacks.


This book is a well deserved ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆.