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Book Review *****
I loved this book and the sole reason or maybe the most prominent reason for that was the strong feminist character. I myself am a total pro-feminist and just loved the total kick ass attitude of the girl.
The story starts of with Blomkvist's trouble with the financial world and a the hefty fine he has to pay. To reduce the impact of bad publicity on the magazine he is working for he takes a self imposed vacation during which he is given an assignment to find a murdered girl ( 36 years back). The girl was murdered ( body not found) on an island in a period when no one came in or out. So what unfolds is a locked room mystery. He hires an investigative firm for delving in the mystery where he meets the female protagonist Lisbeth Salandar. And so the story goes.
The story is not for people with aversion to violence, rapes or in general child brutality, sex scenes and blunt language.
But one thing I learnt from the book was that Sweden doesn't seem to be a safe place for girls or at least the rapes and female brutality seems to be just shrugged off there.I was bit disturbed to learn the sort of brutality described in the book and the extent of violence in the book. But just the bouncing back and never say die attitude of the girl made me keep coming back to it. The journalist Blomkvist seems to be a decent character and in fact all the main characters in the novel have been finely etched out which leads to a smooth flow of the story without any inconsistencies or out of character acting.
The mystery was well thought out and the additional characters later on in the book added to the story. There were a few things which made me squirm a bit particularly Blomkvist's relationship with colleague Erika and her husband. Plus Blomkvist has been shown as this perfect guy over whom girls fall over and who cant or doesn't make any wrong decisions.
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