— published 2015
This fall, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in the highly anticipated follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. In this adrenaline-charged thriller, genius-hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist face a dangerous new threat and must again join forces. Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a trusted source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female super hacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering. Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Lisbeth for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. In The Girl in the Spider's Web, the duo who thrilled 80 million readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest meet again in an extraordinary and uniquely of-the-moment thriller.
I was very disappointed by his writing. Too many characters, quite confusing at the beginning. One has to get half way through the book in order to get some action. There is too much useless blabla and way too much "explaining". That's too easy, a few pages later explaining what has happened in previous scenes.
ReplyDeleteThere is very little "action writing" to keep the pages turning. I didn't really find a central viewpoint from which the story was written. It would have been much more interesting to make the role of Lisbeth Salander more active, being the pivot of the story. Now she just had a second role.
Anyway, I wil not recommend this book to anyone. Sorry.