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verypeculiarpages 's review for:
The Girl Who Played with Fire
by Stieg Larsson
OK, so wow. One of the biggest complaints for the first book was how LONG it took for Lisbeth and Mikael to meet, at which point the book became much more enjoyable. For this book, I was getting antsy because again, I was waiting and waiting and thinking... there's no way I'll have to wait until past page 200 for them to meet up again, RIGHT?!. But, HERE I AM, 700 pages later, wondering HOW I made it through the entire book without the two meeting up and not going absolutely insane, yet I'm still excited to read the next book??
There were times I found myself skipping entire paragraphs, even entire pages, because some of the narration is just tortuously slow and frankly, I just didn't care about a lot of it. There are a lot of side characters, it was sometimes hard to keep track. I really like Lisbeth and there were big chunks of the book where I wasn't even sure where she WAS, let alone was able to read things from her perspective.
The ending of this book was significantly better than the first. I felt the first book's ending was drawn out, but for the last 200 pages of this one, my stomach was in knots and I was super anxious, even whisper-screaming at Mikael to PICK UP HIS PHONE and stop being so dumb. I was super shocked by the big plot twist in this one and definitely didn't see it coming.
For at least an hour after I finished, my nerves were still frayed and I was ready to start the third installment (had to wait, real life duties called). Now that Lisbeth has FINALLY (LAST. PAGE.) met with Mikael, here's hoping the next one will pick up right where it left off and not leave me to guess how long I'll have to suffer through pointless narration before the good stuff picks up.
PS) I'm going to try to actually start writing reviews for the books I read! I think it will help me to more accurately express my feelings before giving it a star rating, and also give me an outlet to talk about books that I don't really have irl (side note:if anyone wants to come into my inbox and scream about books they've read, feel free). One down...
There were times I found myself skipping entire paragraphs, even entire pages, because some of the narration is just tortuously slow and frankly, I just didn't care about a lot of it. There are a lot of side characters, it was sometimes hard to keep track. I really like Lisbeth and there were big chunks of the book where I wasn't even sure where she WAS, let alone was able to read things from her perspective.
The ending of this book was significantly better than the first. I felt the first book's ending was drawn out, but for the last 200 pages of this one, my stomach was in knots and I was super anxious, even whisper-screaming at Mikael to PICK UP HIS PHONE and stop being so dumb. I was super shocked by the big plot twist in this one and definitely didn't see it coming.
For at least an hour after I finished, my nerves were still frayed and I was ready to start the third installment (had to wait, real life duties called). Now that Lisbeth has FINALLY (LAST. PAGE.) met with Mikael, here's hoping the next one will pick up right where it left off and not leave me to guess how long I'll have to suffer through pointless narration before the good stuff picks up.
PS) I'm going to try to actually start writing reviews for the books I read! I think it will help me to more accurately express my feelings before giving it a star rating, and also give me an outlet to talk about books that I don't really have irl (side note:if anyone wants to come into my inbox and scream about books they've read, feel free). One down...