According to my most recent Google search, 35 million copies of "The Millennium Trilogy" have been sold in 41 countries worldwide. This staggering number only intensifies my internal, ongoing debate: Euro-trash or worthwhile reading?
The Girl Who Played With Fire focuses on the unique heroine Lisbeth Salander, a bantam-boxing, computer-hacking mathematical genius with a photographic memory and a will of iron. The essence of the plot is simple: Salander, with help from her allies, struggles prove her innocence in a triple murder which, literally, has her fingerprints all over it.
Like the first book of the series, the second is formulaic and fairly predictable. However, add sex trafficking, Soviet spy agencies, biker gangs and even Fermat's Last Theorem to your basic whodunnit and you get an intriguing page turner that you're ashamed you can't put down.
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