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Luftkastellet der blev sprængt - Stieg Larsson
| Title: Luftkastellet der blev sprængt (The Pipe Dream that got Blown Up) Author: Stieg Larsson Genre: Suspense Rating: 5/5 # pages: 671 Date read: March 2008, Feb 2011 |
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Two heavily wounded people are brought to Sahlgrenska Hospital in Göteborg. One is Lisbeth Salander, who is wanted for murder. She has a life-threatening bullet in her brain and must undergo surgery immediately. The other is her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a former Soviet spy, whom Lisbeth has struck in the head with an ax.
The bullet stuck in her brain is the least of Lisbeth Salander's problems. Powerful forces are out to silence her once and for all. But while she's in isolation at the hospital, Mikael Blomkvist digs through her past, and slowly sorts out truth from fiction. He embarks on a revealing coverage, that will clear Lisbeth and shake the foundations of the Government, the secret police and the entire country. Finally Lisbeth Salander will get a chance to break free from her past.
Reading 671 pages in two days is a lot, even for me, but the last book in Stieg Larsson's excellent trilogy is every bit as good as the two preceding novels. Picking up right where "The Girl Who Played With Fire" left off, this final volume picks up all the loose threads and ties them nicely together. It's my reoccurring problem with suspense novels that they typically end 50 pages too soon, so things aren't properly wrapped up. Fortunately Stieg Larsson does not fall into this trap, and gives his readers a very satisfying conclusion to the trilogy.
My only complaint is that the writing could at times have been a bit tighter, as there was a LOT of background history to be covered, but that's not even worth losing half a point over. These three books are the best I've read all year, and I highly recommend them.
Reread in 2011 Upon rereading, I think this may actually be my favourite of the three - although it's hard to say, as it's so closely connected to #2, that it's occasionally difficult to remember what happens in which book.