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Verblendung by Stieg Larsson

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dalving's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-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? Yes

3.5

I have very mixed feelings about this book - on the one hand, the mystery developed is very engaging. The story takes a while to get started, but once pieces are uncovered, the pace picks up rapidly towards the end and I found myself very curious to know "whodunit". On the other hand, the author was very obviously a man. Women were described in unnecessary detail, everyone seemed to fall in love with main male lead, despite sometimes problematic age gaps/professional interactions with the women involved, and he was a notorious flirt and never stayed with anyone he hooked up with except his long term open relationship with a married woman. There was gratuitous sexual violence especially, as we find out later, surrounding the murder investigation. Irritatingly, I was curious enough about the mystery to continue reading and would probably read the rest of the series in hopes of more mystery and less everything else but the plot could have been driven more by other factors.

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isabeljmiller's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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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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