Verdammnis

German language

Published Nov. 9, 2008 by Heyne Verlag.

ISBN:
978-3-453-43317-5
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Swedish: Flickan som lekte med elden) is the second novel in the best-selling Millennium series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. The book features many of the characters who appeared in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of Millennium magazine. Widely seen as a critical success, The Girl Who Played with Fire was also (according to The Bookseller magazine) the first and only translated novel to be number one in the UK hardback chart.

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4 stars

Talk about a cliffhanger ending. I didn't like the actual plot as much as I did in the first book. In the first book revealing the past really had me somewhat terrified and surely revolted, and the main plot of the second book didn't grip me as hard. Which doesn't mean that it's bad, not at all, just different. After ungodly amounts of exposition and incredible amounts of Billy's Pan Pizza, the plot really started rolling at pretty much the 40% mark and was unstoppable to the end. I am quite eager to start on the final book now.

As amusing anecdote, I googled Billy's Pan Pizza and found out that I am not the only reader who really had to check what Salander keeps eating. The Millenium trilogy has more product placement than an episode of Top Chef.