My Rating: 
Author: Stieg Larson
Narrated: Simon Vance
16 hrs and 19 minutes
Review: I deliberated for a long time before buying this audiobook. I had been on such a science fiction and fantasy kick that I didn’t feel like I was in the right frame of mind to enjoy a detective novel. I think what finally made me try this series was the release of the final book in the Millenium series “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest”. I don’t know why but I’m a sucker for Trilogies!
The star of the book is obviously Lisbeth Salander. Lisbeth is a 24 yr old extremely violent, hacker with a photographic memory. Her exploits throughout the book kept me coming back for more and carried me through some of the more boring sections of the book involving Mikael Blomkvist’s investigation.
Stieg Larsson certainly had a gift for weaving together an interesting mystery but unfortunately it felt like this book unraveled too soon. The main mystery of the novel was solved and I looked down at my iPod and wondered why I still had three hours left to the book. Breaking the story up into two distinct sections like this may have been unavoidable since some of the information needed to go after Blomkvist’s target was part of his reward for solving the Vanger family mystery. That being said, the ending to this book was a very anticlimactic and really did not motivate me to jump right into the sequel “The Girl Who Played With Fire”.
Narration – The narration was incredible. Simon Vance, as usual, turned in a great performance. (I have particularly enjoyed his work with Guy Gavriel Kay)
If I had to rate this book I think I would give it 3 out of 5 stars.
Will I ever read it again? Most likely not.
Will I finish the series? Yes. Like I said before I’m a sucker for trilogies.
