A review of The Girl in the Spider's Web" by David Lagercrantz

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2. It was ok

I finished it last night. As you suggested, distance made it possible to read the book in its own terms, but there's no way to unremember the original. Lagercrantz has made Lisbeth into kind of genius/super hero. She still has all the characteristics Steig Larsson invented for her, but she seems more like a prop than real person. Missing is the desperate ferocity that drives the Larsson books. The back story, which involves high level hacking and intellectual property theft, is actually pretty good. I give it a 6.5. Publishing being what it is today, sequels are almost guaranteed.