The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: A Lisbeth Salander Novel

Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital with a bullet in her head. If and when she recovers, the battle for her life will continue in other ways. As they prepare for her trail with Blomkvist’s help she’ll need to identify the authority responsible for allowing such abuse and violence to happen to her over the years. While Salander is lying in her hospital bed recovering two things are happening simultaneously. One, being the group of people, friends, and good guys, working together towards finding the missing pieces to her story and lost records that could uncover an entire division of people responsible for Salander being mistreated by the government with the lead of Blomkvist. Two, being the group of people ready to bury her whatever means necessary to cover up their tracks of all their wrongdoings that she could expose.“The Section”, a group formed within Säpo to handle all things dealing with Alexander Zalachenko. This third installment of the Millennium Series was a fantastic ending to his part of his series. So many intricate details in this book its hard review in detail.I have to commend Blomkvist on his determination in uncovering his stories. He worked hard with the police to assist in solving the covered parts of Salander's life. I love how they were so careful with the information not getting to the wrong people. For the majority of this book, some people underestimated his abilities just because of the positions they held. To be leaders in a government organization there was a lot of sloppiness on their end. Another thing about this book I loved is Salander got to understand how much the people in her life cares for her and rides for her. Hopefully, it’ll help her learn to keep these people close and not treat them as if they were disposable. Without any spoilers, My favorite scene by far was the courtroom scene towards the end of the book. Overall this series is probably my favorite series I’ve read as an adult. Stieg Larsson was an AMAZING writer! I definitely would recommend this series to anyone.

It’s taking me a while but having read the first two in the series within a few weeks I am now onto the third by the original author and I am loving the series. This is not as ‘exciting’ as the first two without adding spoilers but I feel like it will conclude the story well. I am not interested in reading the books that follow by the other author as I have read disappointing reviews and did not enjoy the 2nd movie i believe one of those was based upon. This has taken me much longer as it is not fast paced at all and more detailed on historic events and investigative detail. Enjoying it all the same. The whole trilogy would make a great gift.

I love the Steig Larsson books and I'm devastated that he isn't around to be able to write any more.My family gave up on seeing me when I was reading these books. I read the entire series in a week. A friend had given me The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo several years ago and I had put off reading it because she said it was "really, really good." She was right, and as I feared, I became obsessed once I began it, which is why I waited until I retired to read it.The book that's the subject of this review is the final book (other than a non-Larsson) in the series. It does not disappoint. If you have read the other two, you'll definitely want to read this last one. It's hard to put it down once you start, so give yourself some free time to immerse yourself in it.

I loved the first two books, and the last and final one didn't disappoint. The plot was detailed, well-done and interesting. My only complaint, even though the end was satisfyingly vengeful against all the bad guys, was that it was a little too neat and tidy. And I wish the relationship between the two main characters was fleshed out a little bit more and didn't come to an abrupt end like it did. It's too bad the author didn't live long enough to take the story any further, if he would have. But overall, it's the first fiction I've read in a long time and now I've definitely picked up an appetite for more crime/detective stuff.

Read the first part of the trilogy :"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" before you read the others, which was a most original piece of crime fiction, published posthumously, to worldwide acclaim after the Swedish journalist author's death.There are also a couple of movies i.e. if you don't know already.The eponymous "Girl" is probably the most interesting female character since Margaret Mitchell's Scarlet O'Hara, or, maybe one or two of Jane Austin's.The plot is riveting and wide ranging, the action hilariously bloodcurdling and the different characters support the narrative well.This is part III of the trilogy. Its a good read, but start with the "Dragon Tattoo" to get off on the right right track.The trilogy is a superb achievement by the late author and deserves your attention. You will not be disappointed.I bought the three books on Kindle some time ago and reread the third just the other day.Magic if you are going on a relaxing beach holiday.

The book picks up where The Girl Played With Fire kicks off, so reading this book soon after finishing the second book really helped me understand what was going on. These books have many characters with similar names, so it's important to have a good understanding of who is who.As with the previous book, there was quite a bit of build up during the first third of the book, but by the time you hit the midway mark, you won't be able to put this book down.There probably isn't as much action as in previous books. Most of the action takes place near the end of the book. This book focuses heavily on espionage and information warfare and there are quite a few sub-plots involving supporting characters. Some of these sub-plots may feel like they don't contribute to the overall outcome, but they are satisfying to a degree and they serve the characters well.All in all, I really enjoyed reading these three books from Stieg. This will go down as one of my favourite series of all time. I don't think I can continue reading the next few books in the series knowing that the author is not the same and that nothing that Stieg planned had been carried over. I think only Larsson could do these characters justice.

Posthumous novels can be SO frustrating either because they are not quite the finished article or, as in this case, because it is SO BRILLIANT that you crave more - and that can never be. This, the third in the trilogy from Larsson is as enthralling as the first two and holds the reader's attention throughout, so much so that I dared hardly blink lest I missed something.A lot of the contents are extremely unsettling and those of you who remember Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (the first in the trilogy) will understand that this author certainly pulls no punches but never resorts to gratuitous language for its own sake. He describes to us, his readers, a tough world, a VERY tough world and the heroes and heroines are not perfect human beings but they do have saving graces and, without giving away the twists and turns of the plot, each development held my full attention.I am sure that other reviews have been written extolling the virtues of the author and this book but if you haven't read them or indeed his books, do yourself a big favour and read them just as soon as you can. Hold on to your hat and 'enjoy' superb writing.

I’m glad I persevered with the trilogy, but this one was hard going like the first as there were LOTS of political facts and information. Larsson went into a lot of detail that may have been a little overkill, but by this third book, I had realised that that was his style, so I just went with the flow rather than not understanding it as I did with the first book.He would go off on tangents, but those tangents might last for a 30-minute chapter, but they would eventually become relevant. However, you would still be sat there chomping at the bit to get on with the main story and to find out Lisbeth’s fate.Despite trudging through all the political facts that Larsson hit you with this was an excellent conclusion to the trilogy and it was rounded off nicely, and everything was tied off, and no loose ends were left.I have considered reading the two books that have been written by David Lagercrantz as follow-ups to Larsson’s trilogy. However, they seem to be starting off a new story albeit following the same characters. So considering that Larsson may or may not have planned to continue the story, I will leave it where he left it before he died. If there was evidence that Lagercrantz was working from notes left by Larsson I may reconsider.

A literacy work of art. Great ending to the Stig Larsson series. You need to read the previous 2 books first as there are a few references from those books what you won't understand. This is a very clever plot which was full of twists and turns with a really satisfying ending. You can tell the hard work and research that has gone into this book. The only thing I really struggled with was the pronounciations of names and places as it's based in Sweden and in from the UK but apart from that a excellent read. Lisbeth Salander has become one of my favourite characters.

I'm only about 1/4 into this book, but really enjoying it. The author keeps up a great pace throughout, and I'd have to agree with a previous reviewer that you want to read these books in great big greedy chunks, and have to forcibly remind yourself to work/eat/talk to the family!!!! I'm looking forward to seeing how this concludes, especially since I've also got 'The Girl in the Spider's Web' lined up........ If you enjoy reading action stories with good cerebral content, you will definitely enjoy this series of books.