The Girl in the Spider's Web
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Description
Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.
Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one.
More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker.
Reviewed on 22nd September 2015
I reluctantly purchased this book, feeling slightly dirty having read that Larsson didn't want anyone meddling with his characters and thinking that this was just a cash-grabbing attempt by the new copyright holders.
That said, I was left feeling ambivalent when I discovered I actually enjoyed reading it. The plot is solid, and reintroduces what are clearly the same characters and the same messages that the originals contained, following up on a number of hanging plot threads and moving things forward in new directions.
The writing style doesn't exactly match the originals. This is shorter and feels like it has a faster pace, there's slightly less introspection and less of what I previously termed 'product placement' (though there's still a little - as if it's a nod to Larsson's tendency to name drop brands). I would have liked something a little chunkier to get my teeth into, but despite that can't really find much to criticise.
So an enjoyable return to 'the Girl's' universe overall, and one that I hope to repeat in the future to find out what's going to happen next.
