The Girl Who Lived Twice by David LagercrantzMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
The Millennium series is now officially doubled in length vs. how Stieg Larsson left it, and just like The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, David Lagercrantz gives us his third Lisbeth Salander story as a sort of soft ending - really, this could work just as well as Hornet's Nest as the series finale. Lagercrantz has said that this will be his last Lisbeth Salander novel, but if it's not, that'd be nice too, given the unexpected thrills and twists of The Girl Who Lived Twice. Finally picking up in earnest on the plot threads re: Camilla Salander that were left behind in The Girl in the Spider's Web, this latest novel once again puts some fictional Swedish political figures into the spotlight for crimes and scandals spanning continents - including some accidental death, possibly murder, during a climb of Mount Everest. It's just too bad that Lisbeth can't devote all her energies to unveiling these truths because she's still traveling the Continent, incommunicado, in search of the dreaded Camilla...but it's Lisbeth, of course she'll find a way to tie all the story threads together, as does Mikael Blomkvist. So while this might be the last book, or perhaps not, in any case I'm more than comfortable bidding Lisbeth ave atque vale once again. But even Lagercrantz himself said, "Never say never..."
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