The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: The New Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Thriller

Karin gets the characters and aim behind the Stieg Larsson originals.Really enjoyable with some interesting new characters.

It follows the style of the original story well. The book will be a must for those who have read the other books in the series.The ending is a little disappointing.

Deus ex machina is how this book ends - absolutely ridiculous.I should have stopped reading and imagined the ending myself, would have been better than the tripe served up in the last few pages. Author got bored or the editor hates them, or the translator.

Really good action

This is just not as good as the originals nor the following predecessors. It has a chaotic style that confuses the reader and ultimately starts to bore. The plot seems even more outrageous and has a new vein of civil morality that just doesn’t suit its style. Really disappointing and a struggle to get into and stay in the zone. Started off well, then became a rollercoaster of good and bad chapters, it’s all a bit faux.

The book invokes some of the original ideas from Stig Larsson's original and is better than the efforts of David Largercrantz, but it still lacks something. That something for me is, not enough from the Hacker Republic, and not enough of Lisbeth Salander and dealing with the Svavelsjo bikers. I hope there will be a sequel because I was left with a lot of loose ends. Nevertheless a good read.

This might be the single worst mish mash of a work of fiction I have ever read. Even worse than the previous heir to Larsson's characters. Disjointed, excessive side players who contribute nothing, a sudden damp squib of an ending, dubious and pointless intercessions of character thoughts in italics where you are not even sure whose voice it is. Simply terrible and painful to read.The promotional blurbs from critics and even Lee Child ought to be a cause for shame in misleading people.It's an insult to the original trilogy really.

Was so pleased about the return of Salander and looked eagerly to purchase and read. Have to say I was overall disappointed in that Salander seems to be relegated to a “also starring” role. She only appears half way through. Even Blomquist is secondary. The main character Svala appears to be a clone of Salander even down to killing off her stepfather. The ending is far from conclusive and leaves an opening for a sequel. Let’s hope Salander returns as the main lead.

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons: A Lisbeth Salander NovelThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series continues with a new author, Karen Smirnoff (translation by Karen Death – real name).Let’s get the review details out of the way. I liked this book (5 out of 5 stars). A worthy addition to the series (#7).I was struck by the similarity between The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, written by multiple authors, and the Joona Linna series, written by Lars Kepler – a husband/wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Coincidentally, both series are set in Sweden. (The latest Joona Linna book is The Spider.)After seven books, we’ve come to understand that no one in Sweden is smarter than Lisbeth Salander, except possibly the master criminals she faces -- Marcus Branco in the latest novel. After nine books we’ve come to understand that no one in Sweden is smarter than Joona Linna, except possibly his nemesis Jurek Walter, who has the unsavory habit of coming back from the dead. These are books about detective superheroes pursuing criminals who are so evil that only superpowers can overcome them.Lisbeth Salander has (at least) three superpowers: she is the queen of hackers, very rich – because of hacking, and a marital arts phenom. Joona Linna has (at least) three superpowers: he is unbelievably focused – particularly when the going gets tough or he is injured, well connected -- he has friends he can turn to in extreme crises, and a martial arts phenom.Lisbeth is on the autism-Asperger spectrum but, in recent books, has become more social and has a few relationships. Joona, a Finn, has always felt unwelcome in Sweden, but recently has become more social and has a few relationships.However, we don’t care about their relationships, or the inner turmoil they reveal in therapy, because the villains in each book are so bad that if Lisbeth or Joona can’t handle them, Sweden is doomed. Fortunately, Lisbeth and Joona always rise to the challenge – although sometimes at the expense of fledgling relationships or their mental health.Full disclosure: I’m a comic book fan. I grew up reading all sorts of comics. During the sixties, I read a lot of Spiderman comics. There’s a familiar theme in them: young Peter Parker is living a normal life in New York City when an arch-villain appears; no one can stop the villain other than Peter in his role as Spider Man. (My favorite villain is Dr. Octopus who resembles Marcus Branco in the latest Lisbeth Salander book.)My point is that we’ve witnessing the birth of a new class of thriller fiction: the superhero thriller. (An addition to the list that includes: psychological thriller, spy thriller, legal thriller, paranormal thriller, and on and on.) I’d add Lee Child’s Jack Reacher series to this genre.To conclude, I liked the latest Lisbeth Salander thriller, but I’ve realized it’s an adult comic book.

The first third of the book goes nowhere. The rest leaves too many loose ends. Why introduce the name Noomi Rapace? Noomi is and always will be the The Girl Who... in film - she is irreplaceable.Leave the continuation of the Milennium series to David Lagerkrantz, only he can emulate Stieg

Je me faisais un plaisir de lire une nouvelle histoire Millenium. Mais je ne m'attendais pas à un tel désastre. L'écriture est très mauvaise, embrouillée à souhait. Je n'accroche pas et à chaque fois que je reprends le livre, je suis obligée de retourner une dizaine de pages en arrière pour me retrouver dans cette intrigue incompréhensible.Nos personnage favoris ne sont plus que l'ombre d'eux mêmes. Je vais aller jusqu'au bout car je n'aime pas abandonner un livre en plein milieu mais alors que je suis à un peu plus de la moitié du roman, cela va clairement être un effort et non pas un plaisir. En tous cas, si c'est le même auteur pour les prochains, Millenium se poursuivra sans moi.

Edges were soiled and the book was dogeared.Disappointing

Tolle Story und spannend geschrieben. Well done.