This is the second book in the Lisbeth Salader and Mickeal Blomkvist series. All I can say about this book is it is just as good as the first! The action picks up right where Dragon Tattoo left off. I can't wait to start reading the final book. And even though with the nature of the characters, I know a rosy, happy, warm, feel-good ending is probably not in my future with this series, I am still holding out a little hope!
In this book we do find out more about Lisbeth's history. And it is just as complicated and bizarre as you would expect. She realizes that she is in love with Blomkvist and knows it can only turn out badly for her, so she cuts off all contact with him. He doesn't understand why and basically refuses to give up on finding her.
In the first book she saves his life and in the second book his refusal to be cut out of her life allows him to ultimately save her life. At the end of this book she was clinging to life with Blomkvist by her side. Her father had tried to kill her. As we slowly find out, her father was a cold-blooded assasin/spy and very abusive to her mother and so at the age of 12 she sets him on fire and almost kills him. With his deep undercover connections in the government - he succeeds in having her institutionalized and labeled "crazy" - This is where she develops her distrust of everyone! And that is only a small insight Blomkvist gets into who she is and why.
In the final book, she and Blomkvist will be in a fight to clear her name of the murders her father committed and were pinned on her. I am chomping at the bits to start reading it! I have not seen the movie of "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" but if it is half as good as the book - I hope they make the rest of the books into movies!
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