Review: The Millennium Series, by Stieg Larsson

I already reviewed the first book in this series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but it took a while to get around to the other two books in the trillogy. I really enjoyed the first book, which was a stand-alone, but the second two fell a bit short of the mark for me. The Girl Who played With Fire picked up where Tattoo left off, then immediately started to delve into the past of the most intriguing character. The mystery that follows through both remaining books touches on the issue civil rights as they stand in the shadow of government power. As with his first book, Larsson approached the mystery from multiple angles so the point of view changes from time to time, setting the stage for plenty of dramatic irony. My complaint about these second two books is that they seem to spend an unfortunate amount of time going nowhere or reiterating information from too many directions. Still, the characters are true and enjoyable and the end delivers enough of a payoff to make the reading worth while.

Books 39 and 40 on my way to 52