The Girl Who Played With Fire is the second installment in author Stieg Larsson’s Millenium Trilogy.  It continues following the story of odd computer hacker Lisbeth Salander and reporter Mikael Blomkvist.  This time Salander is the story and she will have to face her past.

 

This is the sequel to The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which I completely loved.  This one I was not as crazy about.  It is a good story but has a very different feel to it.  This one is less a mystery, and more an action based story focusing a lot on developing the characters we met in Dragon Tattoo, especially Salander.

 

The beginning of the book is a little odd.  It picks up about a year after the first book and has this weird section about Salander getting stuck in a hurricane.  It just doesn’t really have anything to do with the rest of the book and feels out of place.  The ending is also a little odd as this isn’t a stand-alone story.  It segues seamlessly into the next book The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (which I just started reading) and doesn’t actually tie up much of the story.  Although I do have to say the ending parts are thrilling and really worth reading for alone.

 

I really did appreciate the chance to further explore the Salander character and why she is how she is and that type of study also makes this a good read.  There is a small bit of mystery but it’s pretty quickly resolved.

 

Overall, if you enjoyed the first one and you’d like to know more about the characters then I highly recommend you pick this one up as well.

 

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And also on Audible: