“The Girl Who Kicked the Horner’s Nest” is unfortunately the third and (thus far) final book in the “Millennium series” by Stieg Larsson who passed away before he could write a fourth (maybe someone will fill in for him someday).
By far this book has the most revelations regarding who
Lizbeth Salander is, her past, her allies, her friends, and her enemies. While
all of this is good what is really great regarding Salander’s character is that
by the end of this book she has grown and matured some, and also seemingly
realized that friends are not a terrible thing to have.
This book is heavily dedicated, from the perspective of many
characters, the investigation of what happened at the end of “The Girl Who
Played with Fire” and what led up to those events. I would argue that this book
has the largest cast of characters from whose eyes we see the plot unfold. It
is very heavily investigation driven and fantastic for it.
There is a section dedicated as a distraction regarding a
vengeful stalker of Erika Berger which… I’m not convinced should have been in
the book, but, whatever.
Also, the climax in the courtroom is phenomenal and was
fantastic to read.
The falling action at the end of the book raises questions
about what happened to Elizabeth Salander’s twin sister, which if a meeting
took place between the two has been hinted throughout the “Millennium series”
to pack explosive potential of disastrous proportions. It makes me really want
to read a fourth book, but alas, there is not one (yet, maybe some author will
take up the mantle).
I’m very glad I read the series though, it was a very
different style and pace than I’m used to.
Hey C!
ReplyDeleteinspired by your post I remembered how much I enjoyed the daniel craig movie and watched the last two movies from the swedish version. (didnt watch the first because it had been "spoiled") .
they were very interesting. played with fire was weird because it was dubbed in english (the one i watched anyway) whereas hornets nest was in swedish with subtitles. So i watched a weird mix of the movies. The story was great and I really liked the courtroom part. Swedish courts seem to be very different than ours. Were the differences in their legal system more obvious in the books ?
Reading the book, and qualifying that I have not watched the Swedish sequel movies yet, it appeared that the court room was very heavily fact based, with verification of gathered facts through testimony. It also sounded like the judges and counsel and the accused all sat at a table together, which is very different sounding than a courtroom in the US. Also interesting were the seeming lack of bailiff in the court room and lack of jury.
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