Stieg LarssonCrime · Mystery·1954–2004
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Synopsis
The concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's original Millennium trilogy (published in English as The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest) picks up in the immediate aftermath of the violence that ended the previous book. Lisbeth Salander lies in a hospital bed, gravely wounded and under police guard, facing charges that could see her committed or imprisoned for the rest of her life. In a room down the same corridor lies the man who tried to kill her.
As Lisbeth fights for her life and prepares for the fight of her life in court, Mikael Blomkvist and the staff of Millennium magazine race to assemble the story that will finally expose the corrupt cabal within the Swedish security police that destroyed her childhood and has spent decades protecting itself. What follows is a taut legal and political thriller in which the personal and the institutional collide, and Lisbeth's long war with the men who wronged her reaches its reckoning.
Sweeping and satisfying, this finale ties together the trilogy's threads of state corruption, abuse, and hard-won justice. It should be read after The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire.
- Leaving Lisbeth, Mickael and the fascinating Sweden with a pinch in the heart. It's a decent closure for the trilogy, even if the ending suggests that there would be more to follow, it's an ending open to many possibilities and it kills me to know that if Stieg Larsson was still alive he would have written the seven other books he was planning to write! Plot wise, this book was as good as the first one, I found the second a bit long and boring, but this book kept me interested and reading for several hours without ever wanting to stop. On the down side, I didn't like the relation between Figuerola and Mickael, it wasn't credible enough, it felt like it was forced in the story, without being of a great importance. Also, the mention of Lisbeth's sister, Camilla, I kept waiting for her to show up sometime during the trial of Lisbeth,or when she was released, I don't see the use of creating a twin sister for Lisbeth if she is gooing to be just randmly mentione.Unless Camilla and Figuerola's plots were supposed to be developped in forthcoming books (which we will never know)in this book, their presence is superfluous.
- no wonder why this book's been sitting on the shelf for many years as i've been avoiding to read it and bid farewell to Lisbeth Salander and bloody Blomkvist and the whole Millennium universe. But here we are. Farewell Stieg Larsson.