The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A book that I have been seeing on book store shelves for a very long time and my curiosity finally got the best of me. I had consistently been seeing the Stieg Larsson titles breaching the top of New York Best Selling lists for over a year! What really tipped the scale for me was when Stephen King had listed the entire "Millennium Trilogy" as a must read on his 2010 Summer reading list.
When I heard the word "trilogy" that really peaked my interest. I had no idea that the other books that I randomly passed by in the book store were any way, shape, or form, connected? And yet after thinking about it momentarily it all came together and made perfect sense. So, I braved enough courage to order the first book on my Kindle and read it with ease.
At first, I wasn't sure I was going to grasp "The girl with the dragon tattoo". It was very Swedish in nature and that makes a lot of sense being that the entire book takes place in Sweden!! And the author himself was a longtime author and editor of a Swedish magazine and newspaper.
Lots of names, lots of facts, lots of things are thrown at the reader and it can be hard to digest for a short sitting. HOWEVER, if you get to the middle of the book it really begins to take shape and develops a life of its own. If you get through book one....you won't be able to NOT read book two. You guessed it. If you get through book two...you won't be able to NOT read book three. It comes together marvelously in three separate books.
I have always had a little sick interest in serial killers and what makes them tick. So, the fact that this book takes that twist really pulled me into the plot.
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