So today, I just finished reading the novel, “The Girl Who Played With Fire” by Stieg Larsson, which is the sequel to, “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”.

The story is about Mikael Blomkvist, who is now publisher of Millennium magazine and he was hired to write a story about, “sex trafficking” and abuse with underage girls. He was hired by a man named, Dag Svensson, who was murdered along with his partner. Lisbeth Salander’s guardian, Nils Bjurman was also murdered. Lisbeth was framed for these murders and Mikael tries to help out his friend who is innocent. In this novel, Lisbeth now hates Mikael and wants nothing to do with him, which makes the investigation even more difficult.

Enough with the plot, on with my thoughts. This book is even better than the first! When they say it’s a stay up all night, hard to put down read, it sure is. It only took me about several days to read this book even though it was a little over 700 pages, on paperback.

The story immediately grabs you once you start reading on the first page. The book is more violent and more graphic, then “Dragon Tattoo’. Lisbeth is even more pissed off and dangerous. Larsson did a great job on getting the reader thinking that Lisbeth committed those murders , when she really didn’t. This book went even deeper into her past, which “Dragon Tattoo” never did. Her past became more darker and there are some big shockers.

This book makes you want to feel like you know this, Lisbeth Salander character, even though she’s a fictional character, it makes you feel like she’s a real person. People see her as crazy, insane and dangerous from the first book, “Dragon Tattoo”, but in “Played With Fire”, Larrson wants to let his readers know that Salander has her own reason to be that way. She’s not as bad as she seems. All she’s doing is trying to protect herself because of her past.

It was a great read and the best one of the trilogy so far. I will buy, “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest”, the final book some other time. I am next reading “The Lost Symbol” by Dan Brown.

Kev