{"id":1420,"date":"2019-03-27T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2019-03-13T20:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T02:24:29","slug":"book-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/27\/book-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\u2019s Nest
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2007
\nAuthor: Stieg Larsson
\nLength: 1,222 minutes \/ 20.37 hours<\/p>\n

Now that I\u2019ve finished the third book in this series, I realize it falls into the \u201ctrilogy conundrum\u201d of having a strong, standalone first part, followed by two sequels that rely on each other to finish out the story. Heck, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\u2019s Nest<\/em> should have just been Part 3 of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em><\/a> since it completed the story arc started back in book one. I had my suspicions this book would continue from the exact moment where The Girl Who Played with Fire<\/em><\/a> ended. After all, there were a ton of loose ends, and the story ended abruptly.<\/p>\n

Part of my issue with this book was that it was primarily tasked with tying up all the subplots from the first two books. However, it still felt like it needed to spend time on new storylines that didn\u2019t add much to the overall plot and were only there because the main character wasn\u2019t able to do anything interesting. I also didn\u2019t particularly like how some of these story elements concluded, as they felt unfulfilling (the resolution of the conflict with Lisbeth\u2019s father stands out in particular). Overall, these two qualms made the book drag on longer than I think it should have.<\/p>\n

There were still some positive elements in this book, including the trial of Lisbeth Salander. In fact, this coup de grace<\/em> was by far the most entertaining section of the entire trilogy. I also appreciated the tension created early on when Lisbeth was in the hospital, as well as the action in the Epilogue that tied up the very last loose end of the trilogy. In the end, I still think this trilogy was a good read. It\u2019s just that its final volume felt a little bloated and distracted at times.<\/p>\n

A mostly satisfying conclusion to the original Millennium<\/em> series, I give The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\u2019s Nest<\/em> 3.0 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

\"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" \"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\" \"255px-Five-pointed_star_svg\"<\/strong><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet\u2019s Nest Year: 2007 Author: Stieg Larsson Length: 1,222 minutes \/ 20.37 hours Now that I\u2019ve finished the third book in this series, I realize it falls into the \u201ctrilogy conundrum\u201d of having a strong, standalone first part, followed by two sequels that rely on each other to finish out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54],"tags":[176,55,1674,8,1642,1712,1673,1641,806,29],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-0-stars","category-book","tag-176","tag-book","tag-millennium","tag-review","tag-stieg-larsson","tag-the-girl-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest","tag-the-girl-who-played-with-fire","tag-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo","tag-the-trilogy-conundrum","tag-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1424,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions\/1424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}