Ok, I'm officially over Lisbeth Salander, Mikael Blomkvist and the entire Millennium gang. I truly wanted to enjoy The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest as much as the first two of the series but instead I found it painfully slow, full of extraneous detail about Swedish politics and generally free of suspense. I would have stopped reading half way through had I not convinced myself that it had to get better! The last 100 pages brought some satisfaction and were definitely the highlight of the book but, in the words of T.S. Eliot, what started out as a captivating series disappointingly ended "not with a bang but with a whimper."
