After much deliberation, I finally got round to reading the concluding part in Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest". The reason for my hesitence in reading the final book? Simply that I adored the first book (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo) and as a consequence, was more than a little disappointed with the second book (The Girl Who Played with Fire). This third book is a whopping 600 pages long and I wasn't sure I wanted to commit my precious reading time to another disappointment. Luckily for me I wasn't wasting my time - the master storyteller was back! For those unaware of the Stieg Larsson/Millenium ...  Read the complete review

'The Girl who Kicked the Hornets' Nest' is the concluding part of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. I was eagerly anticipating reading this novel. The two preceding books had established a whole host of characters and had multiple ongoing story threads so it was always going to be interesting to see where Larsson would take the overall story. As an initial warning, there genuinely is no point reading this book if you haven't read the other two. This is a proper trilogy where each book picks up the story from the point the previous book left it. There is little in the way of a standalone story. The book is clearly marked as 'Millennium III' so hopefully ...  Read the complete review

Welcome. It's been a long journey if you've made it this far into Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy. Over a thousand pages gone and seven hundred still remaining. So far, the trip has been worthwhile; let's hope the final destination is worth the wait Following on directly from the events of the second book, Lisbeth Salander is in hospital after a fateful confrontation with Russian gangster Alexander Zalachenko and faces criminal charges for his attempted murder. Crusading journalist Mikael Blomqvist gathers Salander's few allies together to expose the conspiracy which has been conducted against Salander since her teenage years. One of the real ...  Read the complete review

Firstly I loved the first two books, and could not wait to get my hands on the last in the series. As an introduction without spoiling the plot, a misunderstood young woman with various talents is under arrest for murder, a group of associates and friends believe she is not guilty and carry out an investigation to resolve the issues. The story follows this and you have to read it to discover what happens. Main Characters Lisbeth Salander - young woman mentioned above Mikael Blomkvist - investigative journalist, player, generally good guy Erika Berger - editor of Millenium magazine, sometime girlfiend to Blomkvist All of the old ...  Read the complete review

The Girl who played with Fire The third and last book of Stieg Larsson. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The writer: Stieg Larsson -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stieg Larsson real name is Karl Stig-Erland Larsson and was born on the 15th of august 1954. Unfortunately he past away on the age of 50 years. During this life he wasn't really known as a writer and just wrote as a hobby. His normal job was working for a Swedish magazine and wrote books in his free time. Before he died he managed to hand over his three books to a publisher, but ...  Read the complete review