Disappointment

I thought many times that I would not be able to finish this book. Apart from the characters it has nothing in common eith the original series. And while Saul can put forward a good voice - as soon as he tries to vary it for different characters they end up sounding like imbeciles. I will not buy any prospective follow on books and wish I had not fallen for this one.

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Rather constructed story, mostly boring

The story does not keep up with the previous one. It is rather bloodlees. Not all, but large parts of the book just explain the past of the involved persons to the point of exhaustion. The whole story appears rather constructed. The main plot is hardly moved forward. The action parts are not plausible at all. I really like the character, however, in parts superwoman Salander is described ridiculously incredible.

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langatmig

das war eher enttäuschend; unnötig verwickelte und in die länge gezogene Geschichte. Sie ist unglaubwürdig und clichehaft

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Schwachpunkt der Serie

Dieser Band kann getrost ausgelassen werden. Ich habe die vier davor beim Hören verschlungen und den 6. Band noch mit Interesse gelesen -- Band 5 ist lähmend langsam und letztlich einfach uninteressant. Die Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen Hintergründe der Salander-Story und der damit verbundenen Unmenschlichkeiten ist irgendwie überflüssig, ganz abgesehen davon, dass vieles einfach unglaubwürdig ist. Eine Psychologin, die über Leichen geht um die "Forschung" zu schützen, naja. Die Parallelhandlung mit ein paar zugereisten Islam-Fundamentalisten ist aufgesetzt und ohne Verbindung zu den großen Stieg Larsson-Linien. Kein Gewinn für die Serie.

A good Salander story again.

Good storytelling and suspense. Never boring and very atmospheric. A bit too calculated (tear jerky) in places but plausible and interesting.

Miserable speaker Voice

Die Story ist passable. Die Sprecherstimmen sind z.T.völlig unerträglich. Z.B die von Hilda von Kanterbury oder die von Holger Palmgren.

A New Lisbeth Salander is Emerging

With „The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye” David Lagercrantz gives the story a new direction. This started already with “The Girl in the Spider’s Web”, but it is more distinct now. While Lisbeth Salander was the predominant figure in Stieg Larsson’s Millenium trilogy and her bizarre and nevertheless alluring character made us fall in love with her, she moved backstage in Lagercrantz’s new novel and seems to have grown up and behave more reasonably. This is probably the main reason, why some of the magic of the previous novels got lost. While the prose is still at par with Larrson’s writing, the storyline and plot are somewhat unrealistic and appear to be construed. Regardless of that, the topics of the story are valid and contemporary, the problems of fundamentalist Islam and exposure of the financial markets to computer attacks, but perhaps, there is too much of everything in one novel.

Lisbeth Salander tries to get some final answers as far as her childhood is concerned. While she sits in a high security female prison, she asks some old friends for help in her research. Of course she did not expect to set an avalanche of events and disasters into motion. Unknowingly she endangered her life and the life of her best friends by unraveling step by step the misdeeds of a sinister, pseudoscientific group, known as The Registry. As if this would not be enough, helping and protecting a young Bengali woman will lead to a confrontation with a brutal prison gang and violent Islamists.

There is enough action and it is nice to meet old friends again, but this novel does not have the quality of the first three.

Brilliant, just brilliant!

Another perfect follow-up of the previous Millennium series, David Lagercrantz has yet again proven to be Stieg Larsson’s worthy heir. Seldom has switching between story and time lines been so easy to follow; there certainly is no better narrator than Saul Reichlin to give nuanced life to all different characters. I’ll be impatiently longing for the next audiobook echoing the footsteps of Kalle F*** Blomquist, the girl with the dragon tattoo and all their allies!