The last book of the trilogy is the least. Notched it up one star because I loved the ending. Whereas the first two books touched lightly on politics and the place for media therein, etc...this book is suffused with it. Bogs the story down at times. New characters the percolated in the first two books don't stand out as much in this one. Had the author lived, died shortly after submitting all three books for publication, I suspect there might have been some revisions before publishing. As in the other two books, some nice wicked plotting and suprises along the way. Has sufficient payoffs for reading the first two books and part of my take on it may be colored by reading all three in a row and possibly I suffered from series fatigue. Still...very worthwhile as part of the trilogy. Had the author lived,would be interesting to see the clamor for more of what happened to Lisbeth Salander after the final book ended...clearly a character one would love to follow.