The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Dragon Tattoo story

David Lagercrantz

Aug 2015 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide

"Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker heroine is in good hands" USA Today

LISBETH SALANDER AND MIKAEL BLOMKVIST HAVE FALLEN OUT OF TOUCH

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.

"The most enigmatic and fascinating anti-heroine in fiction" Financial Times

"Salander and Blomkvist have survived the authorship transition intact and are just as compelling as ever" New York Times

Ratings and reviews

It's difficult to understand who benefits from having the characters resurrected, certainly not fans of the original. A pale comparison to the original trilogy with Salander reduced to little more than some sort of 'Bat girl' figure missing all the nuance that made the character so interesting. As with most reboots, sadly, it reads as though an eye has been kept on future film opportunities and the dollars to be made. If the characters names had been different it would have been difficult to imagine any connection to the original characters. Ultimately It's a ham fisted attempt to cash in and should have been left alone.

I am a massive fan of the Millennium series and commend the author on continuing where it left off. I have a couple of unanswered questions that weren't tidied from the last book (won't say what they are to avoid spoilers), but nothing that affects the story. Loved some of the new characters and impressed with how easily the transition for the old characters flowed.

After thoroughly enjoying the original trilogy I have to say I found this novel a little flat, the characters just shadows of their former selves and the dialogue a bit comic book in style. The details of the plot itself were rather contrived and the ending a bit of an anti-climax. Overall it hasn't encouraged me to read further in this series and I feel the success of Mr Lagercrantz regarding these novels has been basically carried on the back of Mr Larsson.

About the author

David Lagercrantz was born in 1962, and is an acclaimed author and journalist. In 2015 The Girl in the Spider's Web (2015), his continuation of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, became a worldwide bestseller and was made into a film by Sony Pictures (2018). He is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling I am Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fall of Man in Wilmslow, and the fifth and sixth books in the Millennium series, The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (2017) and The Girl Who Lived Twice (2019).