The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium #3)

by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
4 Stars
Setting: Sweden
563 Pages
Published in 2007

Ellie's Review
While The Girl Who Played with Fire was my favorite book in the Millennium series, this one was very good too. I enjoyed that the three books didn't follow the same formula but were each different from each other. This brought closure on some aspects, but it was definitely written to lead up to further novels. Like the second book, this focuses a lot on Lisbeth. I'm crossing my fingers a fourth book will emerge sometime.

Book Summary
This novel not only puts the cap on the most eagerly read trilogy in years; the sequel to The Girl Who Played With Fire marks the completion of its Swedish author's career; Stieg Larsson died at the age of fifty in 2004. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is, however, too exciting and too adept to be read simply as a major author's memorial. From its onset, with "a...moreThis novel not only puts the cap on the most eagerly read trilogy in years; the sequel to The Girl Who Played With Fire marks the completion of its Swedish author's career; Stieg Larsson died at the age of fifty in 2004. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is, however, too exciting and too adept to be read simply as a major author's memorial. From its onset, with "avenging angel" protagonist Lisbeth Salander lying in intensive care, this fiction pulses forward.