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A Mess
It is with real pain I write this because the Lizabeth Salander stories have been one of the great reading joys for me in recent years. When Steig Larson died and David Lagercrantz took over, I was apprehensive. His first attempt was ok, but this one is a mess. From its incoherent and sloppy organization to its plethora of undeveloped characters, Eye for an Eye is an embarrassment. For the first time, Salander is a lesser character. In fact, the emergence of the twins promoted them as more interesting, and even they, by the end, have been cast aside. The ploting is very strange. We are thrust forward and backward time after time, with no real sense of linkage or development. Chapter titles like June 20 or x years before make no sense, and the reader lurches around like a juggling ball. I suppose a greedy publisher and a lousy editor make a good team here.
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