Reviewed by Kuro-hime
Haha, yes, I am back~~!! Well, it's my holidays and I did promise that if I was free, I would come here and review stuff. So yea. Here I am~~!!
Summary :
Mikael Blomkvist is hired by the great industrialist who has passed his prime, Henrik Vanger to investigate the disappearance of his favorite grand niece, Harriet Vanger. Henrik Vanger has been haunted by her disappearance and taunted by her 'murderer' for 40 years. Blomkvist who is a journalist took the offer because his own career is going to hell after being convicted of libel against Wennerström.
Mikael starts to investigate and then, finds and works together with Lisbeth Salander to solve it.
REVIEW :
This book is honestly one hell of a book. I mean, it's really good. I knew that everyone loves this book and I really wanted to know why. So I went in with great expectation and let me tell you, it did not dissappoint me.
I like how this book mixed crime, business and journalism together. It worked really well. In the beginning, I was a little skeptical because the first few pages proved to be very confusing and very swedish.
But as I read, it completely gripped my attention. I couldn't let go of this book.
Stieg Larsson really did a great job in storytelling. His writing method were simple, honest and captivating.
Usually, I do not like mundane long dialogues and authors writing every miniscule details in their books. However, Stieg Larsson managed to make this mundane dialogues interesting. I have never been so surprised. He writes details but not too much. He gives just enough for the readers to feed on which I think is good.
This story also has several plot twists that you completely wouldn't expect.
WARNING SPOILER HERE : so if you don't like spoilers, it's best if you skip this entire paragraph.
For example, I really thought Harriet Vanger was dead. But she wasn't and the way he managed to twist the story so that it is possible for her to be alive was amazing. That was seriously a good plot twist. I really didn't see that coming. Not only that, the fact that Lisbeth Salander actually falling in love with Blomkvist was a little hard for me to comprehend. It's a little surprising. I saw that coming but dismissed it, thinking that the author wouldn't do that. But he did. So yea.
Not only that, this story does not revolves on only one story or one character. I like how there is many different mysteries in it and how each character is important.
Each character is very well developed especially Lisbeth Salander.
All in all, I think this book deserves all the hype it's getting. It's a good book and I really look forward to reading the next one, The girl who played with fire.
I wonder what will that be about. After all, the mysteries that were presented were all solved in this.
I give this book a 8/10
