The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (~)

Finally finished another book. This time it's the last book in the Millennium series The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larrson. The book was alright, but I have to say that because of how detailed it was, it was hard to keep track of everything, so unfortunately I don't really remember all the details. What really annoyed me was that nearing the end of the book, it seemed really out to lunch with the court proceedings. The defence was able to bring in random witnesses that the prosecution knew nothing about. I know in North American judicial systems that's not allowed. The case would have to be completely restarted, so either Swedish judicial systems are different, or Mr. Larsson was out to lunch. What prosecutor goes only by what the police tell them? I thought they would do their own research and figure things out. Anyway, those are really my only 2 gripes with the book. I mean obviously the fact that Lisbeth and her brother are basically superhuman seem a little out to lunch, but it's a fictional book....I shouldn't complain too much.

Basically, this book picks up where the last one left off. Lisbeth and her father are in the hospital. It follows Lisbeth as she's kept in isolation and guarded in the hospital, and then put into prison. And then follows the court proceedings and research that went into that. It ends by tying up all loose ends for characters.

Not my favourite book, but I'm glad I'm finally finished the series and can move onwards to something that might be a little easier on my brain. Anyway, until then, Happy Reading!

The Girl Who Played With Fire (~)

Finally finished Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Played With Fire. I'm not saying it's a terrible book because the last 150-ish pages really had me hooked, but I don't feel that having to wait until the last 100 pages when the books 500 pages long is really necessary. It also sucks because it's hard to keep facts straight when it's been taking me so long to read them. But oh well.

This novel answers many questions I had regarding Lisbeth Salander (what her past was etc. and her disorder). Well it doesn't directly answer the disorder question, but it gives a bit more information to go off of. In this book, Lisbeth is framed for 3 murders. It goes through a lot of ups and downs to figure out who is behind the murders, but in the meantime, a lot more is discovered about Lisbeth which allows the reader to gain more insight into why Lisbeth is the way she is. As usual, the novel really picks up the pace during the last 150 pages, and it makes it very hard to put down. Although I really didn't like how it ended, but I guess it made me want to start the 3rd book pretty quickly (which I did, haha!)

Anyway, I'm on to reading the last novel in the series, and then probably I will go back to Game of Thrones series. Until next time, happy reading!