Book # 7 in the Millennium series featuring Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist
I read the previous installments with joy and I have loved them all. The style has varied and the narration and dialogue of high quality through the years have been steady. Most of all it provided us with excitement following the attics of a high skilled hacker and her journalist friend. Steig Larson was the creator after his death David Lagercrantz took the reins and provided us the same quality we came to love. The chance then was given to Ms. Smirnoff. What a challenge this new writer has in her hands...
My thoughts on this latest is somewhat guarded since I have no idea what was going on for ½ of the book. The story is so convoluted at its best and so boring at its worst. This latest lacks flare the previous novels had and the heroine take way too long to show her face. The pacing in the part I read was slow and totally off, hard to know what was going on. What I took out it this story is in Gasskas there is a project brewing were a vast park of wind turbines will be built where the project had attracted organized crime. The style has no wits and fizz the previous installments gave us. It provides us with so much that is become difficult to keep everything straight...I gave up not wanted to waste any more time.
Definitely not the best book I read this year so far.
My thanks to Penguin Random House Canada and Netgalleys for this ARC
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