Thanks to the Kindle I was able to start The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest right after I finished the second book in the series. At the beginning of the book, I was excited--it showed great promise. I was hoping to see great character arcs, and the anticipation of seeing certain characters was fun. (see Portable Elephants post.)
Yes, this was a page turner like the others, but it also had more of the same downpoints, worst of all being lots of exposition. Pages and pages about the history of a secret police. More pages and pages on the background of a character that wasn't really germain to the story.
But, if you like a story where karma kicks the butts of the bad guys, this will be your kind of story.
I was slightly disappointed that there didn't seem to be much of a character arc in Mikael Blomqvist's character. Doesn't he learn from anything? Still flaky from beginning to end with his friends and women, I really wanted him to appeal to better angels, but he didn't. Glad, though, that he's a good guy when it comes to political issues, and with a high amount of integrity. Almost too good. However, I'd love to see him hook up with Salandar again in solving a crime.
Also I would have wanted to see Niedermann's downfall be directly tied to either his inability to feel pain or his ghosts.
Lisbeth Salandar doesn't disappoint, though. She's almost like a superhero and I'd love to see more of her. I guess we won't, though, unless Stieg Larsson's "widow" is able to finish his fourth manuscript and publish it!
Now I can get on with my life.
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