The Girl Who Played with Fire

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The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson


My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. More investigative reporter/hacker adventures, this time with sex trafficking and a lot of nasty personal history.

Okay, here's the thing. I read the last 300 pages of this book in one sitting because I could not put it down. But.

But I don't think it's just the translation – Larsson's books really are tell-tell-tell-oh, hey, here's some show. And, but this book had no denouement whatsoever, and I do mean none. And, but this series is largely about a woman with an unnamed cognitive processing disorder, and it doesn't always do a perfect job with disability issues.

But on the other hand, I really couldn't put it down. And its sexual politics are so often in the right place. And it has this way of looking at systems attempting to deal with a problem like a murder or the sex trade and showing where they break and where they don't. And I suspect a lot of this book was set-up for the third in the trilogy, which mind you I kind of crazily want to read.

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