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AND THE DEAD GIRL LEAPT UPON HER FATHER!!!

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The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson (Millennium #2)

Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

This would have been my least favorite book of the trilogy if it wasn't the one in which the Lisbeth Slander mystery started to unravel.

From the three books, this is the one with the most normal beginning, with Mikael working on his magazine and enjoying the stardom and respect of his peers once again and Lisbeth on a prolonged vacation that she eventually ends and returns to Sweden only to buy the biggest house she can find and live there without telling anyone. I loved reading about Lisbeth not having any monetary worries for the first time in her life, being completely in control of her life, not being hung up on Mikael anymore and just relaxing and eating ramen. I loved that Lisbeth. That Lisbeth did not last long though.

Although I found Lisbeth and Mikael’s motive to reconnect a bit weird, it did make sense and I recognize that I just couldn’t swallow it immediately because I find Mikael super boring. But when the other main character in the book is Lisbeth freaking Salander, everyone will look drab in comparison.

My favorite part of the book was seeing Lisbeth reaction to the man-hunt organized by the police and how defamation and prejudice were used to change the public opinion on her and label her as guilty even before a trial could occur. She was charged guilty by the public opinion and the police even before being found and interrogated.

Her sexuality, in particular, was especially targeted and used as a way to prove she was degenerate and promiscuous even though that shouldn’t be anyone’s business but her own.

Her looks were another of the big themes. The author is always making sure that we know she is as skinny as one can be and almost as short as a child so it is even better seeing her floor grown men physically or from the other side of a screen. Lisbeth Salander is a superhero.

And as for the finale, what ending folks! Definitely the best out of all the three books. I could feel my heart in my throat for the last few chapters of this book.

And just as a piece of trivia:

Portugal translated this book’s title as “The girl who played with a can of gasoline and a match”

10/10

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson's internationally best-selling trilogy. Lisbeth Salander - the heart of Larsson's two previous novels - lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.

This is the very last book in the Millenium trilogy because the author died midway through writing the fourth one and I don’t think you will get that one published any time soon or maybe ever so this is all we have of Stieg Larsson.

Yes, there are two more books written by David Lagercrantz but I don’t want to talk about them and I wish I had never spent even a minute reading The Girl in The Spider’s Web. I did it so you don’t have to: it’s not worth it and it will make you cry because it will only make Larsson’s absence more real.

It’s good then that this book final is so good that if you don’t know that we were supposed to get a 10 book series, thinks this is an amazing trilogy. (Yes, I considered not telling you this but frankly, I see no reason why I should suffer alone.) That being said, I’ll try not to spoil it too much even though the book has been out for a decade.

Lisbeth, of course, is brilliant and whoever knows these books knows that she is what sets them apart from everything else. Yes, Mikael Blomkvist is smart and interesting but if it wasn’t for Lisbeth no one would have read it. One of the things that make Lisbeth’s chapters so amazing (without mentioning her singular personality and way of seeing the world that I mentioned in the reviews of the previous books here and here) are all the hacking details and this incredible group of people that the author came up with composed only of the most brilliant hackers in the world whose only purpose is to fight against evil. We actually get to know more of them in this book, although not personally in some cases but the ones that do appear always make the chapter more interesting because they are one of the few support systems that Lisbeth has and she NEEDS it in this book.

My favourite part was definitely the trial because that is where Lisbeth finally gets some semblance of justice, not even when it comes to be ruled in favor or against but in the fact that finally, the justice system works for her as it should and she gets a chance to be heard, to be represented by a lawyer that is on her side and to face those who hurt her. Peter Teleborian, one of the worst men in the trilogy finally has to face her in equal footing and that was an unforgettable chapter.

Any of the books in this trilogy are a pretty lengthy reading but if you still want more after finishing the books you can try the movie adaptations. The Swedish have been out for a long time and it will be an interesting experience seeing as most people never saw a movie spoken in any other language other than English.

And the best of it....do you know how in the fanbase we want movies eight hours long that have every scene from the book? The Millenium films don’t have eight hours but they are definitely some of the longest movies I ever saw and every minute was amazing.

If you want an American adaptation though there are two. The first one based on the first book by David Fincher with Rooney Mara that was amazing, the second based on The Girl in The Spider’s Web that was awful. 

Portugal translated this title as “The Queen in the castle of the air drafts”.

10/10

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Camilla er søsteren til Lisbeth Salander ...

Bøkene og filmene om den tynne og magre hackeren Lisbeth Salander, ble først introdusert i bøkene til Stieg Larsson, senere i filmatiseringen via Millenium-trilogien.  Fantastiske bøker solgt i millioner av eksemplar og senere filmatisert med stor suksess med premiere i 2009. Filmer som er gjort minnerike gjennom Noomi Rapces-skikkelse, som Lisbeth Salander og Michal Nyquist som nylig gikk bort.…

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SUSPENSE DEMAIS

Meus livros finalmente chegaram. *--* Eu estou lendo A MENINA QUE BRINCAVA COM FOGO de onde parei e, meu Deus! Quanto suspense! Está me matando!!

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About Millenium Trilogy

Suddenly the second book of Millenium Trylogy comes to my mind. I remember this character, the cop Hans Faste a douchebag and a completely  mysoginistic jerk!, he thinks women are all whores, just like Zalachenko (Lisbet Salander's father). I hate him so much! It seems that most of the male characters from the trilogy are bad guys, even Blomkvist (because he doesn't seem to care about his ex wife and daughter).

Where are the good guys in The Millenium Trilogy? LOL

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Noomi Rapace and Georgi Staykov on the set of "The Girl Who Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest".

Lisbeth and Zalachenko chatting! lol