Book Synopsis
Genre: Crime/ Thriller
Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Review
I don’t even know where to begin. This was so amazing, amazing, amazing!!!
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is a series of three- the following two I have yet to read- by Swedish author Stieg Larsson. The beauty of these books are the fact that they are pretty much in the form that Larsson handed the manuscripts over to the publishing company who bought the books but Larsson sadly died before the editing process began. Truthfully, for me, I don’t think much needed work because this was such a brilliant novel! It’s completely insane but all the more better for it.
I haven’t read such a good crime/thriller novel in a while. It took me a few chapters to get into the story but once I was, I found myself as engrossed as Mikael Blomkvist was in trying to figure out what had happened to the vanished Harriet Vanger from the 60’s. This book kept me hooked and on my toes; all my suspicions on the one responsible for Harriet’s disappearance were totally wrong. The Vanger family itself have some seriously disgusting secrets. It’s insane what humans are capable of.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is Lisbeth Salander who is so bad-ass, awesome, antisocial and frightening. She can be seen as slightly nuts but I thought her character was brilliant. The thing about this book was that the characters were really well developed and had a lot more to them. Often, we get pretty pictures of characters and ideas of what people should be like. But when you delve beneath the surface, the truth is far from it.
Anybody itching for a great crime novel should definitely read this! The suspense will keep you glued to the pages. Not only is it interesting with its unpredictable twists and turns but it’s entertaining right to the end. This was just such a great read!
My rating: 5/5