We've just had a lovely bank holiday weekend, where I was able to finish reading Stieg Larsson's 'The Girl Who Played With Fire'. I couldn't put it down! I read the first part of the trilogy, which was also stimulating, but in my opinion, the second novel is much better. I think it is partly because this novel concentrates more on the unlikely heroine of Lisbeth Salander, a petite, anti-social computer hacker who is caught up in and targetted by a violent criminal underworld, when she is accused of committing a triple murder. This novel withholds more information than the first one, and the already mysterious character of Lisbeth draws you in. In the first novel, she was a main character but was most definately sidelined by Blomkvist's role in the novel - afterall she was his assistant. In this novel the roles are reversed, and Blomkvist has to turn detective and dig into Salander's unconventional past in order to help her. Larsson's writing style seems to be more polished in this particular novel and whilst being an enjoyable page turner - I don't think that it will become a modern classic, but in a few years time will probably be remembered more for the phenomena of the Millennium series rather than the content of the book. Having said that - I can't wait to read number 3!
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