Alright, so my friend lent this book to me. I had originally read the back of it in a bookstore and I gotta tell ya... it didn't sound appealing at all. Corporate Espionage.. or whatever you'd call it isn't high on my 'Ooh, this is awesome to read about' list. Same goes with murder mysteries generally speaking - they're fun to watch on tv (I love CSI Vegas) but to read about them, the author has to be really really good at drawing a picture in your head.
So needless to say, I approached this book with a lot of skepticism. I started reading - the prologue chapter gives a bit of interest. The next couple chapters held that interest, but didn't really hook me in, persay. But it wasn't to the point where I was bored reading it, so I continued.
My mother discovered I was reading this book and she told me that her cousin (I think it was her cousin) had told her about the book not a few days beforehand - said she ended up reading the whole thing in one night. Now that caught my attention because thus far, I hadn't really come across any material that screamed 'masterpiece'. I was still in the set up chapters mind you, before the main plot was even referenced. So that got me curious and I kept reading.
Something that really kept me going was the author's writing style - I love it. No matter the context - whether the characters were being shot at or they were simply looking up files on their computers, Stieg Larsson made it interesting. A couple more chapters in, and I found out why my mom's cousin read it all in one night. It's like all of a sudden the story just picks up and stays there all the way to the end. I honestly read the last three-fourths of the book (about 400 or so pages) in two days (yesterday and today) because I simply couldn't put the book down. xD The execution was perfect. I have no doubt that the author probably intended this to happen - to smack the reader with "HaHA, you can't escape my LURE YOU IN-NESS!"
Overall, I give this novel a 9 out of 10 (missing a point just because I wasn't immediately hooked... but that was definitely made up for later). As soon as I finished it, I texted the friend the lent it to me and told her - I was all hyped up. xD It was fun.
So yes. Good book. DEFINITELY recommended. O:<
Next on the list: either Mary: Mrs A Lincoln by Janis Cooke Newman, The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger or The Innocent Mage by Karen Miller
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