The Millennium Trilogy 3, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST

The Millennium Trilogy 3, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS NEST.

By Steig Larsson, narrated by Simon Vance.

The Girl Who Learns to Trust

In this third episode the all the plot lines get tied up and all the characters get closure on everything. This is a continuation of the second book, and here Salander gets much less screen time than the other two books. I found this book to be the most satisfying of the lot. The first, necessarily, spent a lot of time developing the characters. In the second the deepening story of the conspiracy surrounding Salander’s family is exposed and now in the third the whole dastardly plot is exposed and dealt with. It is very much a police procedural novel. We see each of the characters doing their thing, unbeknownst to the others until the climax when the different story lines are tied together. The strong points of THE MILENNIUM TRILOGY are the realistically portrayed characters and the intricate back-story that drives their actions. None of the characters ever rise to the level of people that I think I would like but they all seem to be real in some way.

Simon Vance again gives a great reading. I noticed for the first time that when he speaks in Salander’s voice he gives her a bit of an Irish brogue.