The Fans Who Read About Tattooed Girls
And here’s what Trai had to say about Fire:
“I will admit that I found this book a little bit more confusing than Dragon Tattoo–when you’ve got three different teams running three different investigations, it gets very difficult to keep track of who is who. … I understand why Larsson did it, but it was somewhat confusing to sit there and try and remember where the investigation had been at that point …
“And of course, we get much more insight into Lisbeth Salander, who is becoming one of my most beloved fictional characters. This book directly concerns the mystery of her past and although she is offstage for much of it, her scenes in the book are definitely the most engaging. She and Blomkvist are estranged, but there is some electronic communication that I hope is somehow preserved onscreen.
“Even with its urgency, there was a sweetness to it and it was a nice reminder of the relationship they had with each other in the first book. Blomkvist and Salander do not team up in the sense they did in Dragon Tattoo, but it doesn’t hurt the book all that much. Even if the three investigations were difficult to keep track of, they were all interesting.”
Read the full review on: Tutor Girl Reads The Girl Who Played With Fire
- and check out Trai’s cool Salander-fan site as well: F…yeah! Kalle and Sally!
Chris’ comments about the comments: I admit that Fire is a bit messy, to say the least, but I actually think it’s better tied together than Hornet. Probably because the basic red thread is very simple to understand – Lisbeth is on the run from the authorities. In Hornet we have to tie up all the loose ends about ‘who dunnit’ and Larsson almost drops it at times, because even he has difficulty in maintaining the overview of the whole web and because he ventures into rather cumbersome, unnecessary side-plots. (A specialty of his 
) I would say that another thing that keeps everything from falling apart in Fire is Larsson’s insistence on keeping Lis and Micke apart for the whole of the book. It works wonders, in the good-old-fashioned-way for my motivation as a reader: I want so BADLY to see them together again, that I almost don’t care about some of the more absurd or incomprehensible parts of the plot. Almost…
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June 26th, 2010 at 9:44 PM
I think the point about Salandar is that she is not a “victim”. She is a woman who has experience all sorts of terrible things in her life but she decides that these experiences are not going to define her. She does not want to be a child who is abused or a woman who is raped, or a person whose civil liberties have been violated. She never once sees herself like this. One of the real problems for her at the end of the third book is that by winning she partially loses the freedom she had. She can be a full citizen, but she has to trade a little of her anonymity and freedom.
Mary
September 25th, 2010 at 11:38 PM
I thought that was portrayed in the film ‘Hornets Nest’ quite brilliantly in the short the scene where Lisbeth gets out of the laywers car and looks a little lost when she stands still and zips up her jacket and looks around as if she wasn’t sure what to do now.
September 25th, 2010 at 11:39 PM
I thought that was portrayed in the film ‘Hornets Nest’ quite brilliantly in the short scene where Lisbeth gets out of the laywers car and looks a little lost when she stands still and zips up her jacket and looks around as if she wasn’t sure what to do now.
September 27th, 2010 at 9:06 PM
Wow Mary, good insight. I felt some of these things about Lisbeth, but hadn’t quite teased out your conclusions. Thanks for that.