Book Review : "The girl who played with fire" (S. Larsson)

Second Wow-experience in such short time period. The first book (see previous review: HERE) was one of a kind. Well-written. Breath taking, well it had it all (even though I had my guess quite early on what had happened and will happen).
This second volume of the Millenium trilogy was also one of a kind. No real guess about the finish on the book actually. The red line starting and following during the whole book does not really let us guess ... anything actually! Well just lay back and relax.

The start is quite calm and the intrigue begins soon. A pity that a part of the intrigue is described on the back of the book cover (i.e. the death of two main characters). As I was reading, I was trying to anticipate this event (and could not actually, until 2 pages from the crime!). The violence and sex in the book are also quite special. The topic of trafficking (sex trade) does "require" such, and eventually push me to watch on tv a recent movie title "Lilja-4-ever" (highly recommended as well. Topic is the traffic of women between eastern Europe and well yes, the least country you may guess, Sweden, where those women are sold as prostitutes).

One of the heroes (Lisbeth Salander) is quite quick described as the murderer and a (wo)manhunt starts and is not yet finished at the end of the book (sorry, I said it!). Lots of ups and downs, deep insights in Lisbeth's obscure past and a final which was not to be guessed! The writing is profound and get the reader's interest from the beginning to the end (well to the next book also actually!). No wonder it got a price in Sweden! This is a masterpiece of description, of intrigues, of relationships analysis, of current issues in Sweden (which happened to start quite a while ago but got on the surface only recently...).

For this second volume of Stieg Larsson I would give a strong 9 out of 10. Have already started the third and final volume. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!