The third and final novel in the Millennium trilogy. Interestingly the original Swedish title literally translates "The Castle in the Air that Was Blown Up"! Personally I prefer the English translation, which to me, seems to capture Salander's risk-loving, danger-chasing personality.
Anyway enough of that, what did I actually think of the book? As a direct follow on from number two, Salander finds herself in an intensive care hospital following her injuries in book two after her father Zalachenko and half brother Niedermann tried to bury her alive. Slightly bizarrely, her father is put in the room next to her in hospital.
With the help of Blomkvist, Salander is given a lifeline in hospital, a mobile phone, which enables her to keep up to date with things and carry out her own interventions from the closeted space of her hospital bed while she regains strength.
In the mean time Niedermann is on the run, Berger editor in chief of the Magazine her and Blomkvist own is being threatened and sexually harassed by a stalker and Blomkvist is battling to save his credibility once and for all.
Many story-lines gelling wonderfully together and coming to a heart-pounding climax.
This is not a trilogy to read if you are looking for something light. I can't go into one story line without getting dragged into another and this blog would end up not only ruining the ending for you but rewriting the book!
Fast, complex and shocking!
9/10
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