I finally finished "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo!" It only took two months... Nevertheless, it was a great book. I found it to be quite unexpected in its twists and turns in the plot. So I'll begin explaining the very complex plot that the author set up very briefly. Basically it holds two very different plots all in one very long book. So the first one we are presented with is Blomkvist and his messed up life. He is a journalist for a magazine called Millennium and published a story before the book begins that gets him in a lot of trouble. This story we are shown had a lot of evidence that mysteriously ended up being false. But Blomkvist wasn't crazy, he knew something was up with the millionaire Wennerstrom and he was right. We'll get to that later. That is just one of the plots of this story, and it's not even the main one. As this crazy news frenzy is going on around Blomkvist, he is also offered a job by a millionaire named Vanger who owns a huge corporation. This job has nothing to do with Blomkvist's journalism, but instead Vanger wants to find out what happened to his niece who mysteriously disappeared many years ago. Blomkvist accepts the job to investigate the case and to also write a book about the family and moves to Hedestad where Vanger family lives. If two plots aren't good enough for you, the author throws another one in for free! This one includes Lizbeth Salander who is a brilliant investigator for a security company. She gets thrown into the mix because she investigated Blomkvist for Vanger, so when Blomkvist needed someone to help with the case, Salander was referred. Salander and Blomkvist quickly found that they worked very well together and even developed a relationship. Long story short, yeah you need to read the book to get the juicy details, the crime fighting to duo finds a serial killer amongst the Vanger family AND finds out what happened to Harriet. And if you must know, Blomkvist also nails Wennerstrom with a killer article at the end of the book that puts him out of business.
So what happens with Blomkvist and Salander? This is actually a really complicated question because Blomkvist is kind of a player and Salander is not having it. I have only just begun the second book, "The Girl Who Played With Fire," and S&B are not doing so well. In fact, at the end of the first book, Salander had decided that she loved Blomkvist only to find him hanging out with his long-term affair girl Berger. Salander is very delicate as I am finding in the second book. She had been through a lot of trauma, none of which Blomkvist really knows about. Salander is such an interesting character, she has so much depth. With her interesting qualities of having photographic memory, and amazing skills at hacking, but also the fact at how strong and weak she is at the same time. She is able to intimidate her abuser (Bjurman) and others with her looks, and yet she is so insecure and fragile. I'm not yet to the point of the second book where they reveal what trauma she has exactly gone through, but I can tell it was not good.
I would recommend this book to everyone! It's one of those summer books that I wouldn't be able to put down, but unfortunately with my schedule I couldn't do that. I am looking forward to nonstop reading of this series over the summer though because they really are entertaining and interesting. They have real depth and present very complex and yet somehow very understandable plots that make the book very hard to put down.
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