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Miehet jotka vihaavat naisia by Stieg Larsson

103 reviews

monadocookie's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No

3.75

Starts a little slow - I wasn't as interested in the financial crimes portions, but others would likely find them more engaging. What I did love was the way Larsson wrote his leads. Many crime novels won't bother to flesh out their characters in favor of focusing on the mystery, but Mikael and Lisbeth were both layered, likeable in their own ways, and real. The mystery is also very well done - I had seen the movie a couple years prior, but still found myself second-guessing what I remembered. Enjoyable read :)

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dannybco's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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lubejuice's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

so gd slow and the SA scenes obnoxiously graphic. it’s something you can tell was written by a man (derogatory)

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arellareads's review against another edition

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challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This is the first book I’ve listened to via audiobook, so this probably influenced my experience, but I was having a hard time following all the characters and plot points at first. I actually read a synopsis after each chapter just to make sure I wasn’t missing anything since the book is very dense. The story doesn’t start picking up until a hundred pages in or so, when the mystery takes hold — at that point I started getting hooked on the crime drama.

Despite the slow start, this book gets extremely dark and disturbing mid-way through as the mystery behind the girl with the dragon tattoo comes to light. It’s a heavy read, with a complex, intellectual plot line about social tensions surrounding the fascist Nazi regime, family economics, domestic violence, serial murders, sexual assault, and systemic abuse and oppression against women (many of these scenes are graphic).

It’s a very meticulously crafted story and I value the planning that had to go into this. However, the writing is very explanatory and matter-of-fact, leaving little breathing room. I’m assuming some of the style was lost in the English translation, but this made it challenging to get through. It wouldn’t be my usual choice, but I can appreciate the serious issues this book tackles.

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miss_anthrope's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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sparky63's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

This book is very obviously the first book in the series where it just feels like it is leaving things open to be a plotpoint/hook in the sequel. Also nothing really happened until like the 20% mark and it just took so long. I think the whole time I was just catching crumbs of what I wanted it to be

I truely got invested when it was Salander and the guardian that they assigned to her.

I didn't really care for Blomkist the whole book and his whole, wow I'm not a great parent thing got old very very quickly.

That said, I really like the theme of power and manipulation that they got going and how they used it. It was pretty cool as well to see it focused over the mistreatment of women but it was odd that there were so many... men in it. But to each there own. I didn't really care for the relationship drama or the main mystery (which got me infuriated as the clues were visbily connected but they waited so long to pull the trigger. The last two chapters were pandering though to finish the initial drama (that also was boring) and set up the sequel. I will not be reading the sequel.

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