Review by showhost
I was looking forward to this book as I loved the Stieg
Larsson trilogy but for us Stieg connoisseurs we knew straight away that the
dialogue wasn’t up to the masters standard. I agree with others who said it was
slow and laborious to begin with. I was past 150 pages and still not enthralled
but the last third of the book really picked up my interest and the pace.
Politics, industrial espionage, cyber theft & murder.
Mikael Blomkvist, investigative journalist, is struggling
and his beloved Millenium magazine is facing a takeover bid. August, an
autistic child is living with his mother and her partner. His biological
father, Frans, is an eminent computer scientist who has just invented a formula
for AI. Frans is worried that his life may be in danger as the formulae is one
that industrial companies would kill for. He calls Blomkvist in the middle of
the night as he needs to impart his knowledge to someone he can trust, he wants
Millenium to publish it. Just as Blomkvist turns up Frans is murdered whilst
his boy is staying with him. The boy is spared due to his muteness and assumed
lack of awareness. The boy is put in an institution but when his skills
(mathematical genius with a photographic memory for detail and an artistic skill
too) enable him to start to draw a photographic reproduction of the crime scene his life is threatened. His whereabouts become known through a leak of security in the police force his life is
endangered and Lisbet Salander becomes his protector. Who is the
mole?
I love the character of Lisbeth Salander and was so glad
when she finally fully emerged in this novel. What did it lack – I can’t quite
put my finger on it? Maybe too much trivial inconsequential dialogue with no
depth at the beginning, Salander becoming a little bit of a superhero maybe?
Yes it mentioned some of what went on before (in the trilogys) but I was glad to
have my memory jogged as it had been a few years since reading the
series.
If the author can carry on from where he left off and not
from the beginning then he will be on a winning streak.
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