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title: The Girl Who Lived Twiceauthor: David Lagercrantz
series: Millennium #6
published: 22 August 2019
publisher: Knopf
source: library
genre(s): thrillers
pages: 429
format: eBook
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the blurb
The sixth in the Millennium series featuring THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
"What will you do now?""I shall be the hunter and not the hunted"
The girl with the dragon tattoo is finally ready to confront her nemesis, the only woman who is evidently and in many ways her match. Salander will not wait to be hunted. When she strikes it will be a double blow: vengeance for recent atrocities, and the settling of lifelong scores.
For months now Salander has been closing in on her target. She has moved from Stockholm, her hair is newly styled, her piercings are gone. She could pass for any other businesswoman. But not all businesswomen have a Beretta Cheetah beneath their jacket. They do not wield the lethal power of a hacker's genius. They do not carry scars and tattoos to remind them that they have survived the unsurvivable.
The new episode in David Lagercrantz's acclaimed, internationally bestselling continuation of Stieg Larsson's Dragon Tattoo series is a thrilling ride that scales the heights of Everest and plunges the depths of Russian troll factories. It begins with the discovery of Mikael Blomkvist's number at Millennium magazine in the pocket of an unidentified homeless man who died with the name of a government minister on his lips.
Blomkvist, at extreme risk to himself, tracks down his old friend and will protect her as far as he can. But he is powerless to crush her enemies on his own.
And for Lisbeth Salander, the personal is always political - and deadly.
a few notes
content warning: ❗some graphic violence❗
steamy rating: 0 🔥s
language level: 🤬🤬
POV: 3rd person
keywords/phrases: murder, family, abuse, dysfunction, conspiracy, guilt
my review
This book puts Lisabeth Salander’s past in the forefront of the story, pitted against the one person who, in a different reality, should be her greatest support. Instead, her twin sister Camilla is her biggest enemy. But enemy or not, blood ties can make resolution complicated and fraught with emotional obstacles, for Camilla, too, is another damaged member of the Zalachenko family.
Lisbeth has always been a sort of anti-hero hero, her perceptions of the world and ways of handling it often extreme and violent. But there’s always been an underlying sense of good beneath it, in her quest to right the wrongs of the world. However, there’s no such sense with Camilla. Unlike Lisbeth, who used her powers for (mostly) good, Camilla has taken a very different path.
Like many, I haven’t loved the Lagercrantz novels with the same ferocity as I did the Larsson. For me, there’s just no avoiding the fact that Lisbeth is somewhat less intense, less colorful than her OG version. More than once, I’ve encountered moments in the stories where I felt that the OG version would have reacted differently, made different choices. I encountered those moments in this book, too. And it’s often felt as if Blomkvist has almost become an afterthought, which I also don’t love.
But it is what it is. It doesn’t make the books bad, just different. The stories are still engrossing, and I keep turning the pages!
quoteables
“The dignity of a society is defined by the way it looks after its weakest members.”
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- 2023 Library Love Reading Challenge
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