Rafael

This book is very addictive. In the first part it carefully sets up the story piece by piece, and after a while you just watch in amazement as it all comes together. The characters are well fleshed out and act the way you'd expect them to act.

Both Michael Blomkvist and Lisbeth Salander's side of the story are interesting to read. I enjoyed when both threads were written in parallel, jumping from one to another inbetween paragraphs. What I think this book excels at is pacing.

When I say I couldn't put the book down, I mean it. When the dominoes started to fall, I had a hard time stopping to read. I'm a little afraid to buy the next one...

This book reads like it could have been one of the inspirations for Game of Thrones. With all the intrigue, political games, maniacal masculinity, and graphic descriptions of some pretty disturbing imagery, it is only missing the fantasy elements.

I went through this book in just a couple of weeks, and as soon as page 20 I wasn't able to put it back down. The way this book presents its story as lived by different characters didn't feel forced, and gave it all a good balance and pace.

All in all, very nice read.

While I enjoyed "Ender's Game" and found the story captivating with its focus on the psychological aspects of war, it is hard to talk about it without acknowledging that it has a pretty problematic protrayal of women. Not only aren't a lot of non-male characters, those who are present are lacking in agency. It's a good book, but writen by someone with outdated views and that shows quite clearly.

It is the book that showed me I could like science fiction, so that's a big plus. I now discovered ones I enjoy a lot more. Those from Ursula K. Le Guin for example.

This is a children's book, but a wonderful one. I didn't expect to like this book or find its language accessible, considering it was written over 150 years ago. But I was wrong, it's easy to see how this book has held its place as a classic for so many years.

It's made to be read to children, it has a story that will have most kids asking for "just one more page" instead of falling asleep.