2009 book 155

Stieg Larsson's The Girl who Played with Fire
The sequel to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has kind of a slow start as Larsson puts a lot of characters and situations into play--two people writing about sex trafficking get involved w/ the journalists from the first book, and jerkwads plot against the titular girl. But then things get pretty interesting and intense in ways I wasn't expecting. A pretty good follow-up to the first book, and I can't wait to see how it plays out in the third, but does suffer a bit from middle chapter syndrome (you know, how it's hard to judge the second work in a trilogy since it's setting things up for the finale but has to be interesting on its own too . . . or whatever). B+.