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The Girl in the Spider Web A Lisbeth Salander novel continuing Stieg Larsson Millennium Series David Lagercrantz 9780385354288 Books

Had this been the release of a 4th novel by Steig Larsson about Lisbeth Salander, I would have been beside myself with anticipation and excitement. As it was, I approached this read with a bit of trepidation but open interest. The story is good and it makes a credible (enough) fast paced suspense novel. What is lacking is the electricity and visceral intensity that filled every scene with Lisbeth contained in the trilogy by Larsson. I felt like I was viewing Lisbeth from the outside in, rather than the inside out. Larsson's Lisbeth is the strongest and most unpredictable female character in modern fiction, or maybe of all time. That is why we couldn't put his books down and couldn't wait for the next. Lisbeth raised our blood pressure, kept us up all night, and we rooted for her success in vengeance like no other. With this book, I was 95% complete and had no trouble putting it aside to go to the grocery store. That says a lot. I felt distanced from the characters. I was aware it was just a story, not THE MOST EXCITING character and scenes I felt like I lived and died with in the earlier books. Would Larsson approve? Of the story itself, yes. Of the story telling, no.


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The Girl in the Spider Web A Lisbeth Salander novel continuing Stieg Larsson Millennium Series David Lagercrantz 9780385354288 Books Reviews

As a Millennium novel, it misses the mark by miles and is full of cliches.

The theme of this story is way off base for a Millennium book. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the reader is lead on a deep, dark chase for a serial killer of women. The Girl Who Played with Fire started off with Dag and Mia's work the sex trade and helping bring justice for the women who were victimized. The third novel, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, delved into Lisbeth's own struggle for her rights and independence. Then there's this book… which has shaved off all layers of women's issues, and has decided to focus on hacking and stealing other people's work. There is no depth, no intrigue, and no grit. I felt bored while reading this.

I can't figure out why this book involves the NSA. My guess is that the publisher wanted to appeal to more American readers. The inclusion feels forced and unappetizing. Lisbeth needed to hack into it to find out more about her "arch nemesis," Thanos, but Thanos isn't even American, so she probably had hundreds of other European agencies she could have hacked into just as easily.

There are many inconsistencies in this book. Early on, Lisbeth is writing down names of people at the NSA. Lisbeth has a photographic memory, she never had to write things down before. She's also making notes in her books. Not once in any of Larsson's novels did she ever need to make a note, aside when she was working out a math problem. Another main inconsistency I had an issue with was that in the late descriptions of Lisbeth (aside from her trial), she had traded in a lot of her punk/goth look for H&M, had gotten rid of most of her piercings, and even got her wasp tattoo removed. In Larsson's novels, Mikaal even takes note of this. Yet in this book, she's magically back to looking like a punk boy with "lots of piercings".

I hate the story line involving Camilla. As children, it was said that Lisbeth and Camilla were exact opposites, so her personality in this book does not surprise me. Though I feel that she has been exploited for this story and she was warped in such a perverted way, that she feels fake.

The Thanos/Wasp rivalry is also really cliched. It was never mentioned in any of the previous novels the Lisbeth was into comic books, so it feels odd now that they were such a large part of her childhood. If they were so influential in her life, why is there no sign of them now? It's like Lagercrantz just used comic books as a wrapper for sibling rivalry. The connection is a cop out.

For a "Lisbeth Salander Novel," it sure doesn't include much of Lisbeth, or Mikaal. At least, not in their active states. They feel more like secondary characters in this book. There's hardly any violence, and much of the dialog feels too soft.

The writing as a whole is very linear, with no depth or side intrigues. I did not feel any empathy for the Balder character, Camilla felt cliched and fake, and the characters I was supposed to be familiar with felt like shells of themselves. I did not find this book engaging and had to stop reading every few chapters because I was so bored.

As a work of fiction, this book isn't terrible. But if it were not a "Lisbeth Salander Novel", I wouldn't have even looked twice at it.
[Warning Some Spoilers] This book doesn't live up to the precedent set by Stieg Larsson's brilliant books. The reason for this is simple David Lagercrantz seems to fundamentally misunderstand Larsson’s characters. The dynamic Mikael Blomquist has suddenly become the sort of man who lies around his house moping and making his living writing mediocre stories. His previous works have been reduced to “scoops,” rather than reflecting Blomquist’s mania for the truth. (Lagercrantz also seems to have forgotten that Blomquist is in possession of a sizable fortune, which he earned for his work finding Harriet Vanger.) Incidentally, Larsson’s Blomquist would never have named a folder he intended Lisbeth to find “Lisbeth Stuff.”

More disappointingly, Lagercrantz has reduced the scope of Lisbeth. Larsson’s underlying premise is the crime that lies in confining people to descriptions set by social norms. Yet Lagercrantz’s characters seem primarily interested in her unusual appearance. What is more upsetting is the stench of victimhood that is attached to Lisbeth through the title. In the first three books she has a dragon tattoo, she kicks a hornet’s nest, she plays with fire. She has made choices and is taking actions. Here she is caught by a spider’s web. She is passive.

I can go on, and talk about the fact that Lagercrantz has cut out two strong female characters (Mimi and Sonja), and that he misrepresents Blomquist and Berger’s relationship. (Larsson’s Berger doesn’t sleep around with just anyone. She is faithful to Blomquist and Beckman. Yet in this book Blomquist jokes about her relations with another man.) I couldn’t bring myself to read past the first third of the book, so I suppose maybe these issues are resolved later on.

Let me finish by saying that Lagercrantz may be a good writer, and that taken on its own this may be a good book, but that I probably won’t finish reading it, because these are not the characters I love. They have been deflated, and as a result, the whole story falls short of the standard of literature set by Larsson
Had this been the release of a 4th novel by Steig Larsson about Lisbeth Salander, I would have been beside myself with anticipation and excitement. As it was, I approached this read with a bit of trepidation but open interest. The story is good and it makes a credible (enough) fast paced suspense novel. What is lacking is the electricity and visceral intensity that filled every scene with Lisbeth contained in the trilogy by Larsson. I felt like I was viewing Lisbeth from the outside in, rather than the inside out. Larsson's Lisbeth is the strongest and most unpredictable female character in modern fiction, or maybe of all time. That is why we couldn't put his books down and couldn't wait for the next. Lisbeth raised our blood pressure, kept us up all night, and we rooted for her success in vengeance like no other. With this book, I was 95% complete and had no trouble putting it aside to go to the grocery store. That says a lot. I felt distanced from the characters. I was aware it was just a story, not THE MOST EXCITING character and scenes I felt like I lived and died with in the earlier books. Would Larsson approve? Of the story itself, yes. Of the story telling, no.