Their paths cross and intersect then diverge, only to align again. Secondly, all other characters are fleshed out, living and breathing, preoccupied with their own agendas. And then you hit a brick wall, and you must tunnel your way through to her past, to what makes her tick. She draws you into her psyche, but only as far and as deep as Larsson allows you to go. A damaged and vulnerable woman in the big bad world a mathematical genius painfully antisocial brutally uncompromising, but also highly principled and moral. So let’s see what the main ingredients are.įirstly, there is the utterly mesmerising heroine, Lisbeth Salander. I expect that the third one will be equally irresistible. It repeats, possibly surpasses, the success of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first in the Millennium trilogy. What makes a book into a runaway success? The Girl Who Played with Fire is a triumph: it grabs you from the word go and holds you tight until the last page. I’ll kick off with the phenomenon of Stieg Larsson. Striving to become a better writer, I am going to put some of my favourite masterpieces of popular fiction under a magnifying glass to hopefully learn something from them.
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