Monday, November 30, 2015

The Girl in the Spider's Web

 The Girl in the Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz, 400 pages.
The fourth book in the "Millennium" series, and the first published since Steig Larsson's death, Spider's Web features the two main characters from this popular Swedish series, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomquist, and a host of the minor characters. It's been long enough since I read the first three that I can no longer tell exactly how this book matches those in its voice and tone, but it seems familiar. It's always disappointing to see another super-villain pop up to take the place of one who was vanquished in an earlier book, but that is what many of the heroes of modern thrillers face. Is Salander up to the challenge? Of course she is.
Spider's Web is a fun book despite the improbable coincidences, characters, and situations. It's not as violent as the first three, which is nice, though there is still a fair amount of blood. For a 400 page novel, though, it doesn't seem that too much actually happens. Fans of Larrson's series will enjoy this.

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