An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniquity and astonishing corruption.
Wow. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is definitely one of those books that makes you think 'now THAT is a good book.' This story was so riveting and page-turning. There is a lot happening all at once, and there are a lot of characters, but it is so wonderfully written that I never lost track of what was going on. This book is long, as are the rest in the series, but once I picked it up I didn't want to put it down - even through several hundred pages! There are definitely some gruesome, evil, dark, horrendous scenes in the book. However, for me that didn't overshadow the story as a whole. There was so much more to it. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is brilliantly written. It's definitely not an uplifiting tale, but it is an amazing story.
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