The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
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The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy
Lisbeth Salander—the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels—lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand examination for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce persons in power who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge—against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions that very nearly ruined her life.
Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.
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I was not about to wait six months, so I ordered the hardback from Amazon UK. Why is the American publisher waiting so long?
The Millenium trilogy, a landmark in crime fiction, comes to a satisfying end with “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.” It’s clear now that Stieg Larsson had settled on putting the tale of the ferocious feminist avenger Lisbeth Salander front and center in his series of books prior to his death.
Lots of unpronounceable (to Americans) Swedish names and places. Get over it.
The books demand being read in order. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” the first book, shows how Salander, a superhacker, and her crime-fighting partner, Mikael Blomqvist, an investigative journalist, first teamed up. The plot, involving finding a missing person and taking down a bent supporter, is all tied up at the end. It is virtually a stand-alone novel. But be aware that the second novel contains a major spoiler to the first novel, so read them in order.
The second novel, “The Girl Who Played with Fire,” and “Hornet’s Nest” are virtually one book told in two parts. In fact, “Fire” ends with a cliffhanger and “Hornet’s Nest” starts the very moment the previous novel finished.
“Hornet’s Nest” starts with Salander in a coma in the hospital with a bullet in her brain. She awakens on page 49 and her devoted reader fans are relieved to see she is immediately pissed off.
I won’t give any spoilers, but I will say that this book tells Salander’s entire back tale. Her whole life she has been a pawn in the hands of a corrupt group of men within the Swedish secret service. Everyone gets what’s coming to them, and the fate of the loathesome Dr. Teleborian is most gratifying.
Most of the book describes the intrigue leading up to Salander’s examination for attempted murder. There is scrutiny, break-ins, phone taps, interrogations, computer hacking, stolen documents, conspiracies, etc. Salander is in custody nearly the entire book, but she eventually jumps into the action when she is clandestinely slipped a computer. Her huge moment involves a violent locked-room fight at the end that settles a major score.
At 600 pages, this book could have used some trimming. Larsson elaborately introduces characters that he clearly proposed to be staple characters in subsequent books — books we will not see. This is a British translation, so we get words like “vouchsafed” and “kerb.” I marvel if the American publication is being delayed because of the need to make an American translation.
Larsson is clearly an ardent male feminist and feminist themes run through all three books, especially rage against the mistreatment of women and the need for all people to be able to prompt their sexuality openly and, if necessary, unconventionally. Salander herself is bisexual and Erika Berger, a major character, has an “open” arrangement with her spouse. Larsson makes a point, though, at drawing the line at child porn.
Lisbeth, we’re going to miss not seeing more of your adventures. Your fierce determination, native intelligence and utter fearlessness made you triumphant over the crass and cowardly male forces arrayed against you. You were misunderstood, tormented and underestimated your whole life. But Stieg Larsson, who made you, lived long enough to give you your much-deserved payback. At the end, you’re battered, but unbowed.
You go, girl.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Wonderful characters, appealing setting, full of surprises, suspect that translation misses some of the impact.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
If you thought that the first two books of “Milennium” trilogy are full of action, reflect again. As compared to the third book, they are very slow moving. The third book starts at the moment when the second book stops – with Lisbeth Salander in the hospital, with a bullet in her brain and is non-stop action from this moment on.
The third book has more of everything as compared to the first two – more politics, more characters, more intrigues, more action. The only “less”, probably, will be “less violence”. Which is not necessary a terrible thing.
It is an brilliant thriller that closes all the loops and clarifies everything that was left unexplained in previous book. My only regret is that we can’t expect more books in persons series! I marvel what additional surprises Stieg Larsson plotted in the future books…
The only drawback, from my perspective, was the fact that I wasn’t able to place the book down – so many additional things for this day were left unattended. Well, that’s the book that you should take with you on transatlantic flight.
PS Don’t wait and order the book from Amazon UK. It’s already discounted in UK, so even with shipping fees it’s not more expensive, than buying the US edition to come…
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent to see the capitalist spirit hasn’t been beaten out of Americans yet and people are importing the British version. What were the publishers thinking? That we would wait passively for this until next July when it’s available in the UK in October 09 in English. Question your friends to pick it up for you at Heathrow, request it for Christmas. Buy it from Amazon.co.uk or any additional bookseller with the smarts to ship it here.
To be honest the 4-stars are what I’ll hope I give it. Amazon won’t let me submit the review lacking a rating.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
Steig Larrson’s first 2 volumes were fantastic…the third volume is a bit tiresome as the pieces(excellent vs. evil) on each side line up for their battle. Alot of proceedural descriptions and not enough of Lisbeth.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5