The Girl Who Played With Fire Annotation

                In AP Lang we are discouraged to read multiple books in a series, but I was so intrigued by the first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and gave in to reading the second when I was contemplating my next read. I was delightfully surprised to find that it wasn’t really a continuation of the first book. While it did contain some of the main characters, it was centered on an entirely new concept and adventure. The first book explored the disappearance of a well-known figure while this book was an adventure through the world of the sex trade in Sweden and the mission to expose it. It contained violence, drama, love, and suspense. In my opinion, if a book includes that many genres it is almost guaranteed to be phenomenal.

This is a fiction book that is centered in Sweden and the surrounding parts. I realized in the first book that it was a little hard to figure out all of the Swedish cities and jargon and in this book the characters moved around a lot more. I could have found a map and tracked all of the places but I kind of got used to at least the vicinity they were in by the author’s description.

As I said earlier, this book is full of suspense. The author has an uncanny ability to make the entire book suspenseful. Everything that was mentioned and every suspicion I formulated from it had ended up being wrong and in an entirely different situation that I had not even thought was possible much less expected. I’ll admit that my basic knowledge of any other form of drama or literature had given me the inevitable suspicion that the heroes and main characters will win and live and the bad guys will always lose but other than that I was clueless. The author added so many twists that I had trouble keeping up. This did not decrease my addiction for the book at all though.

The Girl Who Played With Fire is a phenomenal and exhilarating book and I would recommend it to anyone and everyone. While it does get a bit eccentric and sexual at times, it is so suspenseful and addicting that it cancels out all things wrong with it. (390)