“Exciting and … crisply written … [Larsson] succeeds admirably, filling the book with compelling crime-solving action.” - Toronto Star
“A nail-biting tale of murder and cover-ups in which the victims are tantalizingly hard to distinguish from the villains…. Believe the hype…. It’s gripping stuff.” - People
“The Girl Who Played with Fire confirms the impression left by Dragon Tattoo…. Consistently enthralling.” - The Washington Post
“Lisbeth Salander could be the female Jason Bourne…. It’s an intelligent, fascinating story that draws readers in, and keeps them turning the page.” - Associated Press
“More than matches its predecessor.” - The Sunday Times (U.K.)
“Readers who… have been waiting impatiently for this sequel … will not be disappointed. The Girl Who Played with Fire is, if anything, even better than Larsson’s brilliant debut. This novel has great characters and a superb and complex plot.” - The Globe and Mail
“In Salander, Larsson has bottled lightning . . . The Girl Who Played with Fire buzzes with ideas [and] fizzes with fury.” - Los Angeles Times
“The Girl Who Played with Fire is that rare thing a sequel that is even better than the book that went before … it is to be read in great hungry chunks.” - Observer (UK)
“When a writer delivers such a complex and fascinating portrayal like that of Lisbeth Salander all we can do is bow down in gratitude. It doesn’t get much better than this.” - Gefle Dagblad (Sweden)
“As good as crime writing gets.” - Times Literary Supplement (UK)
“All my experienced reader’s critical defenses [were] swept away…. Welcome to the immortality of fiction, Lisbeth Salander!” - El País (Spain)
“Picture Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft endowed with Mr. Spock’s intense braininess … [Lisbeth] Salander is back…. Salander and Blomkvist, transcend their genre and insinuate themselves in the reader’s mind through their oddball individuality, their professional competence and, surprisingly, their emotional vulnerability.” - The New York Times
“Salander [is] one of the most startling, engaging heroines in recent memory…. Some of the books’ appeal comes from the Swedish setting, but most of it is a result of the author writing from the heart, not from a formula. Larsson clearly loved his brave misfit Lisbeth. And so will you.” - USA Today
“Combine[s] edge-of-the-seat action with searing social critique…. [Protagonist] Salander has such fire and heft…. The air of sizzling enigma that she leaves in her wake only intensifies as Larsson’s galloping prose twists the plot…. His writing often feels like keen-edged steel.” - Independent (UK)
“It would be all too easy to describe.... ‘just like the previous book but even better’ but instead I’ll describe why. The focus in the second book shifts squarely to Lisbeth Salander.” - National Post
“Larsson’s minimalist prose is frosted with Scandinavian cool—and [the books] are fantastically plausible…. It’s refreshing to read crime fiction that burns with such blue-flame intensity in which every word counts.” - San Antonio Express-News
”Gripping…. Once the machine starts rolling—it runs on Larsson’s uncanny talent for large casts and ricocheting plot turns…. There’s no question [Lisbeth] will endure as the legacy of a hugely skilled author who left us much too soon.” - Georgia Straight
“An absorbing, exciting and bloody multi-layered chase…. Riveting.” - Times (UK)
“Utterly gripping…. Larsson’s style is gritty and realistic…. Larsson’s novels are spectacular. What a pity there are only three.” - The Edmonton Journal
“Warning—addictive thriller. All who taste it get hooked!” - Elle
“This complex novel is not just a thrilling read, but tackles head-on the kind of issues that Larsson himself railed against … endemic establishment corruption and the exploitation of women.” - Daily Mail (UK)
“Another gripping, stay-up-all-night read.” - Entertainment Weekly
“Larsson is, as we say, definitely having a moment … the writing is gripping, the plotting masterly.” - Sunday Times (UK)
“If you haven’t already read Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, put down this review, go out and buy a copy right now…. If you’ve finished Tattoo, then nothing is going to dissuade you from picking up Volume 2.” - Newsday
“The huge pleasure of these books is Salander, a fascinating creation with a complete and complex psychology.” - Guardian (UK)
“Given the enormous craft shown in the first two books, it’s not stretching it to say that Larsson will be remembered as one of the most revered writers of the early 21st century. He’s blessed with both depth and killer wit…. Fiendishly transfixing…. You might as well give up on the idea of sleep till you’ve finished the book.” - Dallas Morning News
“Suspenseful, remarkably moving … Salander is … a complete original, larger than life yet firmly grounded in realistic detail, utterly independent yet at her core a wounded and frightened child.” - Booklist
“Complex and compelling storytelling at its best.” - Library Journal (starred)
“Fans of postmodern mystery will revel in Larsson’s latest…. While endlessly complex, the plot has the requisite chases, cliffhangers and bloodshed. Not to mention Fermat’s theorem.” - Kirkus Reviews
