The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets' Nest - An Ebook Worth Reading For
Just as Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" is kept up as the trilogy to which all illusion
trilogies are inevitably likened, I've minor uncertainty that Larsson's Millennium series will play that benchmark role for mystery thrillers over the next few years.
"The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" is an unbelievably deserving successor to the previous two books in the trilogy. And toward the end, there will be moments when tears are brought to your eyes. Larrson knew precisely how to play with timing, tempo, and wording to pace the story and its ending just perfect. I'm hard pressed to even guess how else he could have finished this series.
The story follows the natural conclusion of the events in the first two books as all dovetails toward a "behind-closed-door" trial. Larrson did a very good job of the first part of this book that takes place in the hospital where Lisbeth is retrieving. You will really enjoy reading things from her perspective, then spinning out to others involved and each of their limited pieces of the evolving puzzle. And things just get better as the book moves along.
Frankly, once you hit part three of the book, it's almost impossible to put down. I picked it up just once...just to read a chapter or two in the second half of the book...only to find that three hours had gone by and the book was over.
Larrson's tying up of many loose ends throughout the book - and this is the key - throughout the book (not all in the last few chapters like so many other writers) is masterful. And that emphasizes the one tragic aspect of this final book: knowing that we will never again be graced with Larrson's storytelling mastery.