The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson<br/>
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
From the moment I first heard about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I was intrigued by the one of main characters: Lisbeth Salander. Early buzz was about a punky, computer hacker hacker with a dragon tattoo and I thought that sounded like just the type of character I wanted to read about. Of course, that initial book revealed that Lisbeth was much more than the initial buzz led me to believe. <br/><br/>Though Lisbeth is the title character in both The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, she is much more central to the latter. The The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was Lisbeth’s Raider of the Lost Ark. It was a book that had an overarching story that introduced a multilayered and fascinating protagonist, but was not a book about her. The Girl Who Played with Fire is more a “Lisbeth Salander in Story XYZ” book. The book is much more about her. Since I find Lisbeth so interesting, I do not necessarily mind this. <br/><br/>It’s impossible for me to rate The Girl who Played with Fire in a vacuum. Obviously, anyone who reads this will have already read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. As a character study of a fascinating character, it excels. As a stand alone story, however, it falls short of its predecessor.
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