The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series Book 6) Kindle Edition

A strange man is discovered dead on the streets of Sweden. Outside of his spewing of cryptic words during prior public outbursts, all that is known about him is that he is possibly of Asian descent. A phone number is found in his pocket, that of renowned journalist, Mikhal Blomkvist. After Blomkvist is notified, he discovers through eyewitness statements that the man’s prior outbursts pertained to the recently scandalized Minister of Defense. So begins David Lagercrantz’s, “The Girl Who Lived Twice,” the sixth and possibly final installment in Steigg Larsson’s “Millennium” series.One of Blomkvist’s initial reactions is to contact Lisbeth Salandar, the series’ heroin and expert hacker among other infinite qualifications. Salandar has gone MIA, missing since her exit at the end of the last book to search for her sinister twin sister, Camilla. But Blomkvist soon realizes one of the dead man’s final statements was made to another reporter, Catrin Lindell, a fresh character who soon becomes his new love interest. After learning that the dead man was poisoned, his identity is revealed. He was a Sherpa and a mountain tour guide by the name of Nima Rita.Off on her own, Salandar remains off the radar and enrapt in a clandestine operation. She has located Camilla and is presented with a clear shot at eliminating her evil twin once and for all. But at the last moment, she hesitates, and Camilla gets away. Camilla, aware that her sister seeks to kill her, has stepped up the game with a strong cast of cohorts by her side. Now, a showdown between the sisters is imminent.The investigation into Nima Rita’s life leads Blomkvist and Catrin on a mystery that begins with a dangerous expedition to Mount Everest and ends with the deaths of several high profile celebrities on the mountaintop. Not to mention a deeply rooted political scandal. The details of the mystery are sordid and often confusing, sometimes repetitive, and with a slew of characters that must be differentiated between. But Lagercratz’s writing is vivid, on target, and keeps the story well within the tradition of Steigg Larsson’s creation.Before Blomkvist and Catrin can unravel the entire mystery, Blomkvist is kidnapped, which leads Salandar on a fury-fueled chase to his rescue. The ending is explosive yet questionable at moments. The action is paced perfectly, and as always, Salandar manages to survive the unthinkable. Soon, she and Camilla come face to face, and as past memories confront them both, the past goes up in flames.The book may not be the best in the series, but the story is rich and interesting. The final ending leads the reader to believe that possibly, it may be the last in the series. Well done, either way.

How does he do it? Great insights to men's evil intentions. Never a dull moment. Lots of plot twists. Engrossing.

Good news first. This installment of the Lisbeth Salander novels my be the best of the series. The plot unfolds as more facts are uncovered through expert detective work, and the end of the book is open-ended enough to call for additional installments.So carry on, David Lagercrantz!The chief difficulty is that the many Swedish and Russian secondary characters are not given fuller accounts or descriptions, and sometimes seem little more than names, so the reader must have an exceptional memory or make notes as they are first mentioned. Not only do you need who is a good guy and is a bad guy but sometimes that may be hidden by the author.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo inspired dozens of book titles starting with the words, “The Girl,” but it also kicked off an era of kick-ass female protagonists. Lisbeth Salander was a computer genius, a dominant lover of both genders, and a fighter unafraid to take on armed thugs and bikers more than twice her size and weight. Though not a figure whom Sunday School teachers would hold up, she nevertheless served as a role model for young women in the early 21st century.Author Steig Larsson passed away after completing the initial trilogy of “Girl” books. His heirs granted David Lagercrantz license to continue the series, and The Girl Who Lived Twice concludes the second trilogy. One might reasonably suppose this book would also conclude the entire series, but Star Wars has shown us that dollar signs can help inspire a story to extend far beyond its natural lifespan.The story in brief: A beggar appears on the streets of Stockholm for several weeks, babbling incoherently about a senior government official. The beggar dies, and investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist eventually pieces together the man’s connection to the government official, involving a tragedy 10 years earlier during an attempted ascent of Mt. Everest. Meanwhile, Lisbeth is locking horns with her sister Camilla, who is a boss connected with organized crime in both Sweden and Russia. To make it more interesting, the name of a mega-rich American developer of real estate and hotels (sounds strikingly similar to a very real character who has been dominating our daily news for the past four years) keeps coming into the picture in connection both with the Mt. Everest tragedy and the Russian mob. No spoilers here: suffice to say that stuff happens.The book will probably sell a gazillion copies just because of the “brand loyalty” created by the previous five books. But the author’s lazy approach to this story left me hoping that this really is the final installment of the series or, if there must be more, that the heirs will select a writer who tries harder.Some basics:Point of view—POV, as it’s known among writers, shifts from one character to another as the reader turns the pages of this book. That in itself is expected, but sometimes here it shifts even within the same chapter or on a single page.Flashbacks—Throughout the book the author jumps from telling the present story in Sweden to the decade-old tale of mountain climbing. OK, so the old story has a big impact on the current story and needs to be told, but the dizzying turns from one page to the next make the story harder to follow, especially when some of the characters never get a chance to fully develop in the reader’s mind.Backstory—All fiction writers face the challenge of presenting the backstory (i.e., what has happened prior to the current events) without giving readers an “information dump.” But Lagercrantz uses info dumps often, especially in dialog. In conversation a character might recount to another person a lengthy, articulate narrative of events from 10 years earlier without evincing any normal patterns of speech. Sometimes a character may become a walking, talking encyclopedia.The hacking—I think it was the TV series “24” during the first George W. Bush term in which the omnipotent hacker became a mainstay of the modern drama. Whenever master spy Jack Bauer called Chloe O’Brian, back at the office, asking for some highly sensitive top-secret information about any individual in the world, she could key in a few characters at her computer terminal and instantly report the person’s entire life history as well as those of his or her friends, including all their financial connections to each other or shady organizations. Nowadays every cop show on TV has its own Chloe, which allows all the cop characters to stand in a line while they ostensibly study a giant off-camera computer screen and learn everything there is to know without doing any police work. Lisbeth, her friends, and now even her foes all have this superhuman ability to hack any electronic system on earth. Sometimes, solving all the world’s problems just seems too easy.I enjoyed the story of The Girl Who Lived Twice as I was reading it. But if the above gives any indication of the future, I will not clamor for a sequel.

Versão pocket book, qualidade menor que a versão normal mas ainda feita com qualidade.

O livro é lindo, tudo muito bem feito, desde a escolha de cores, fonte, capa, páginas, papel, enfim, todos os elementos que o compõe. Foi bem embalado, chegou muito antes do prazo e em perfeitas condições.😊👏🏼📚

Salander voltou com força total.

So happy it's finally here! I've been waiting for so long!!!

To begin with the book does not deserve to be part of Stieg Larsson's marvelous trilogy, Millenium. I purchased it thinking that it was going to be about Lisbeth Salander, that fascinating character created by Stieg. I found a poor novel about spionage in the Everest and very little about Lisbeth and her friend Mikael Blomqvist. In his previous intent to keep Millenium alive Mr Lagerkranz already made the useless mistake of killing Holger Palmgren, one of the best characters in the series. Secondly, Larsson would have never put a gun in Lisbeth's hands. She found subtler ways of eliminating undesirable characters like Wenerstrom, the husband in the Caribean and Niederman. They were always characters who abused women, probably the most important feature of Millenium. The scene in which she goes trhough windows on a bike is totally unreal. The only redeeming feature isl a certain amount of suspense at the end and her cutting links with her past by having Zalachenko's home and school burned..