Book Review: "The Girl Who Played With Fire"

"The Girl Who Played With Fire" by Stieg Larsson

SUMMARY from GoodReads

Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposeé on social injustice, The Girl Who Played with Fire is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander's innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

MY RATING:

MY THOUGHTS:

I found this book to be painfully boring until the beginning of Part 3. There were some great parts before that, but Part 3 is where things really start to get interesting.

You might be thinking, "then why 4 stars?"

Because even though I feel like there's almost too much build up in this book, surprisingly enough, there's no let down! Even with 650 pages of building me up to the shocker, I was still amazed with the end of this book.

It's a worthwhile read. I just feel like it took me forever to read because I had so much going on this month.