September is turning out to be a lot busier than I anticipated! All I’ve really managed to do is read, which is good, because fall TV is gearing up next week! With that, I got my hands on the latest Girl With the Dragon Tattoo novel by David Lagercrantz, who took over for Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Lived Twice.
This book picks up after the events of The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, and sees Lizbeth seeking to kill her sister, Camilla, once and for all. Except, during her rage of revenge, she starts to slip up and isn’t as careful as a she normally is. In the meantime, Mikael, is on holiday, but desperately looking for some sign of life from Lizbeth, when a medical examiner reaches out about a dead beggar. This is the catalyst for the entire book.
Interwoven throughout the novel are political figures that Mikael has come into contact with over the years, Mount Everest, and somehow, the dead beggar. I’m always amazed at how so many characters and story lines are so expertly bound together by the end of these novels. Lagercrantz’s writing is a seamless flow from the original creator of these characters, and I’d like to think that Larsson would have continued in the same manner if he were still alive.
Eventually our two heroes meet at the end, and a wild story is concluded, but everything is always left just open-ended enough for another installment. I always wonder how the series may end, and I hope it’s with Mikael and Lizbeth together, but this isn’t that kind of series, ultimately, so I’ll take more novels in the meantime. At the rate that Lagercrantz is cranking them out, I don’t feel that I’ll have to wait long! If you are at all a fan of the books, Swedish films, or American film (let’s just not count that fail of an attempt at The Girl in the Spider’s Web), then by all means, READ THIS BOOK!