The Girl in the Spider's Web continues the Millennium Trilogy started by Steig Larsson, bringing back the characters Salander &Blomkvist. Opening up our readers to questions and comparisons between Stieg Larsson and David Lagercrantz.
Mark Lawson from The Guardian has written a thought provoking article. This could provide you ideas to agree with or disagree with, or just inflame your own thoughts into a different tangent.
Until then happy reading!
A review by a book club client in their words.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I loved the original trilogy, this book just didn't seem as riveting. I'm not sure if it was because I was biased against a different author or not, but the plot seemed unnecessarily complicated. Some of the side stories seemed like filler, and I was constantly wondering if I needed to try and remember a character's name in case they were significant to the story, (quite a few didn't really seem to be) and for some reason I didn't any need refer to the map included at the beginning of the book. There was no sense of needing to understand the location to enhance the story.
Im not sure why but Salander seemed 'hander' in this story and I didn't feel the same sympathy for her that I did in other books.
I'm a massive fan of the trilogy, Lisbeth Salander would hands down be my all time favourite fictional character. She's the ultimate fighter, so resilient and worthy of the heroine title. I hadn't read the fourth book, fearing it would ruin such a favourite of mine - so was hesitantly excited when we received it for our homework!
ReplyDeleteI'm not going to lie, I did devour this book. It was enjoyable catching up with old friends (haha), but the book did seem a little flat. The technical jargon seemed boring and unnecessary, and like the previous comment I also found it difficult to keep track of names and who was who. Honestly, as terrible as this may sound, it was very much like an enjoyable fan fiction story.... hang on, now I've said this ... is this ultimately what this story is? Oh what an insult! Haha sorry author who's name I've forgotten.
Okay, final thoughts, it was good - but certainly not great. I give it 3 stars (out of 5).
Sorry I couldn't come to the meet up, over the other side of town #toohardbasket
Cheers! -telina