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The Girl in the Spider's Web

the return of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

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The Girl in the Spider's Web

By: David Lagercrantz, George Goulding - translator
Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
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 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO IS BACK.

Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist have not been in touch for some time.

Then Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder. Warned that his life is in danger, but more concerned for his son's well-being, Balder wants Millennium to publish his story - and it is a terrifying one.

More interesting to Blomkvist than Balder's world-leading advances in Artificial Intelligence, is his connection with a certain female superhacker.

It seems that Salander, like Balder, is a target of ruthless cyber gangsters - and a violent criminal conspiracy that will very soon bring terror to the snowbound streets of Stockholm, to the Millennium team, and to Blomkvist and Salander themselves.

(P)2015 WF Howes Ltd©2015 David Lagercrantz Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Espionage Mystery Spies & Politics Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Fiction Crime

Critic reviews

Lagercrantz has constructed an elegant plot around different concepts of intelligence . . . his continuation, while never formulaic, is a cleaner and tighter read than the originals . . . Without ever becoming pastiche, the book is a respectful and affectionate homage to the originals. (Mark Lawson)
As I read Lagercrantz's The Girl in the Spider's Web, I found that I kept forgetting for several pages at a time that I wasn't reading genuine Larsson . . . One devours Larsson's books for the plots, the action, the anger, and most of all for Lisbeth Salander . . . Lagercrantz has caught her superbly, and expertly spun the sort of melodramatic yarn in which she can thrive. (Jake Kerridge)
Fans of Stieg Larsson's captivating odd couple of modern detective fiction - the genius punk hacker Lisbeth Salander and her sometime partner, the crusading investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist - will not be disappointed . . . Salander and Blomkvist have survived the authorship transition intact and are just as compelling as ever. (Michiko Kakutani)
Elegantly paced, slickly executed, and properly thrilling. (Alison Flood)
First, the conclusion. David Lagercrantz has done well . . .The Girl in the Spider's Web conveys the essence and atmosphere of Larsson's Millennium novels. He has captured the spirit of their characters and devised inventive plots, most of them suitably exaggerated . . . On the evidence of Spider's Web, most Millennium fans will want to continue following their Lisbeth. (Marcel Berlins)
Lagercrantz's real achievement here is the subtle development of Lisbeth's character; he allows us access to her complex, alienated world but is careful not to remove her mystery and unknowability. Lisbeth Salander remains, in Lagercrantz's hands, the most enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction. (Barry Forshaw)
Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker heroine is in good hands . . . Swedish crime novelist David Lagercrantz takes the reins with prowess, not only mimicking Larsson's shamelessly pulpy prose, but admirably expanding the deliciously depraved world of the novels. (Patrick Ryan)
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All in all, I thought it was pretty good. Lagercrantz has picked up Larsson's style and pacing pretty well and it helps that the majority of characters are already well-established from the first three books. This gives substantial consistency, as does keeping the redoubtable Saul Reichlin as narrator. The storyline is a fairly natural extension from Larsson’s original series, develops the situation nicely – and leaves the door wide open for another book in due course.

Keeping a best-selling series going after the original author’s death is bound to fraught and polarise opinion, as indicated by other reviews. I’m sure the publishers don’t mind too much so long as people pay up - and I think this one is good value and hope you enjoy it.

4th in the Trilogy!

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"Ummed and ahhed" about whether to give it four or five stars, but in the end, there's a lot of average books out there, and there's been too many that have been downright impossible to get on with. As a "standalone" it gets 5, but in comparison to the "real" Millenium books, it's a 4 star.

The story whizzes along, the themes great, the characters well known. Really enjoyed the style and story - it's definitely "in the style". It's a long time though since I read the originals though, which makes it hard to compare.

I do feel though that characters are slightly more 2D than the originals. There's something not quite there about Lisbeth Salander - that "something" which made her such an "endearing", "likeable" hero of a character. However, it doesn't spoil the book.

So, highly recommend giving it a listen!

Fourth in series - "just" sneaked to a 5 star

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Great story but writing style is odd and in places very annoying. Not sure great tribute to Stieg Larsson.

Mixed bag

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What did you like best about The Girl in the Spider's Web? What did you like least?

Best: story line meeting old friends. Worst: reader is almost impossible to listen to

Who was your favorite character and why?

the heroine of course - why else would you read or listen to this series?

Would you be willing to try another one of Saul Reichlin’s performances?

no

Was The Girl in the Spider's Web worth the listening time?

Yes but the reader made this a real chore it was like he was reading to 5 year olds

Reader is terrible

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I really enjoyed this. I felt convinced by the rendition of the characters, and led along by the intricacies of the plot.
An excellent addition to the series, I hope Lagercrantz writes more

Gripping stuff

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