La ragazza che giocava con il fuoco

, #2

Paperback, 754 pages

Italian language

Published June 17, 2008 by Marsilio.

ISBN:
978-88-317-9498-5
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4 stars (3 reviews)

Mikael Blomkvist è tornato vittorioso alla guida di Millennium, pronto a lanciare un numero speciale su un vasto traffico di prostituzione dai paesi dell'Est. L'inchiesta si preannuncia esplosiva: la denuncia riguarda un intero sistema di violenze e soprusi, e non risparmia poliziotti, giudici e politici, perfino esponenti dei servizi segreti. Ma poco prima di andare in stampa, un triplice omicidio fa sospendere la pubblicazione, mentre si scatena una vera e propria caccia all'uomo: l'attenzione di polizia e media nazionali si concentra su Lisbeth Salander, la giovane hacker, "così impeccabilmente competente e al tempo stesso così socialmente irrecuperabile", ora principale sospettata. Blomkvist, incurante di quanto tutti sembrano credere, dà il via a un'indagine per accertare le responsabilità di Lisbeth, "la donna che odia gli uomini che odiano le donne". È lei la vera protagonista di questo nuovo episodio della Millennium Trilogy, un thriller serrato che all'intrigo diabolico unisce un'acuta descrizione della …

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Review of 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Millennium has another hot story to publish, a journalist has been researching and is about to expose a large network involving sex slaves and powerful people who have a lot to lose. When said journalist and his partner are found dead by Blomkvist, it just makes him want more than ever to publish the story and find the killer.

This book was so good! I confess I did not understand what the beginning had to do with the rest of the story, even though it would make a great short story. Was it for the readers to understand Salander's morals? To understand how she spent a year away? Nevertheless, it feels very disconnected to rest, which has a much faster pace than the previous volume and is impossible to put down. I loved every bit of it and when I could not read, I was thinking about the loose ends …

Review of 'The Girl Who Played with Fire' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Better than the first, but I was still very frustrated at the unnecessary amount of detail the author added. When reading crime books one tends to store every piece of information given, assuming that it's a richly-woven tapestry and everything is significant. The name of the lamp she buys for the kitchen at Ikea is, however, unrelated to anyfuckingthing. Why several pages needed to be devoted to this is beyond me. Is it humour, perverseness, poor editing? I can't tell.

Gripes aside, an action packed techno-political thriller with a broken anti-heroine at the core. You want to know about "all the evil" and you most certainly want Lisbeth to get her bloody justice.

(You don't want to know about the particular shade of her jacket. I'm just saying.)