The wonderful thing about a book series is that, by the second book, you already know the key players. You don't have to go through the awkward introductions and background history like you would on a first date. By now you are comfortable enough with each other to maybe let them see you without your makeup or burp in front of them or something. In The Girl who Played With Fire, we get to know the characters even better and figuratively burp.
In the last book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the team of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and computer hacker Lisbeth Salander hunted down and solved the mystery of a serial killer; now it is Lisbeth Salander being hunted. Charged with several murders, Salander is on the run while Blomkvist seeks to prove her innocence. And while the current matter at hand is thrilling enough, the exciting thing for me was to finally learn more about Salander's past. Notoriously private, Salander shares very little with anyone, and in this book you learn more about what has made her so protective and of the scars from her past. The book ends with a cliff-hanger, launching into the third and final book in the series with the same nail-biting drama as the last.
Only one more to go! I'm sad that it marks the end of my reading-for-pleasure days for a little while, as I'm about to be eyeballs-deep in education textbooks and Faulkner novels for the summer. I welcome any good suggestions for beach reading, though!
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