The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

I just finished “The Girl who Played with Fire” by Stieg Larsson. The second novel in the millennium series of novels originally written in Swedish. The author Stieg Larsson is now deceased.

Lisbeth Salander, the “Girl” is back from the the first novel. A fascinating character, she is the “Girl who hates men who hate women.” She is also a world class computer hacker, a kick boxer, and although she weighs less than 100 pounds, she doesn’t take any crap from anyone.

This book, like the first one takes over a 100 pages to set the scene but once the action starts it is very compelling.

I rate this book four stars out of five. A good read.

You really have to read the first novel “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” for the second to make any sense.

7 thoughts on “The Girl who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson

  1. Martha Z

    My son gave me the first one, now I’ll either have to wait for him to finish this while he commutes on light rail or buy it. The library has 7 people already on their wait list! I did manage to snag a copy of “Burning Wire” at the library.

  2. Sharon's Mum Anne

    I’ve read all three books and thoroughly enjoyed the series. My only difficulty was the Swedish names of the characters – much easier when it’s Tom, Dick or Harry!

    So sad the author died not realising what a world-wide success he had written and, also, for us his readers, no more Stieg Larsson books.

  3. P M Prescott

    I saw the movie of the first book and it was compelling even if you had to read the subtitles. It will be interesting to see the different take when they finish it here.

  4. Zhu

    I read the trilogy just a month ago and found it very addictive. Like you say, it takes a couple of chapters to get into the story but it is definitely a page turner.

    And let me tell you the third one is by far the most addictive!

  5. Barb

    My husband just read the first and is now reading this one. I also have it on my Kindle but haven’t started it. We just found out that I can get books on the Kindle, and he can download them to his iPad. Unfortunately, we often don’t read the same genres.

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