The Girl Who Played with Fire

This novel was comparatively slow moving through the first half, as Stieg Larsson meticulously set up the mystery. The novel follows the same intriguing main character, Lisbeth Salander (a strong woman if I ever saw one), as the first novel in the series and much more of her history and psychology becomes clear throughout the course of the novel. While The Girl Who Played with Fire, like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, deals with sexual abuse and prejudice, this second novel also deals with mathematics (and, honestly, that part was entirely lost on me). My grade: B+ (and that's with grade inflation. It was a good read, which is just what I'm looking for at the moment.)


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