2018 Reading: The Girl Who Played With Fire

#5 Nordic noir

I found this book much easier to read than the first one. I think it was the fact that there wan't a giant family tree of Swedish names that I practically had to memorize so that I would understand what was going on.

I think the story for this one was fascinating as well. You got a little closer look into the life of Lisbeth and some of her motivations. I might go back and watch the movie for this one, as well. I watched the original Swedish movie for the first book (I might have already mentioned that) and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm anxious to see how this will play out. I don't really know about the books that were published by someone else after the author's death, but they are already making a movie out of one of them so I might see about giving them a shot, but I don't hold out much hope for them being as good as the original.

2017 Reading: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

#39 The first book in a series you haven't read before

I had heard really good things about this book. I've seen the original Swedish movie but not the more recent American one. I was also told that it was hard to get through because it was translated from Swedish and sometimes translations can come out a little weird, but I didn't find that to be true. It was very engaging and I was intrigued.

The only thing I felt was a little bit difficult was keeping up with the names of all the people in the Vanger family. I literally had to make myself a chart so that I could reference it while I read. Even then, I was still a little confused, but I got over it really quickly.

I don't think I'll be in too terrible a hurry to read the rest of them just yet, but I definitely want to at some point.