18 September 2015

Blog Tour with Giveaway: The Girl in the Spider's Web (Millennium, #4) by David Lagercrantz




My rating: 5 of 5 stars


“What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.”

---- Stieg Larsson



The journalist and the female hacker are back with a bang!


David Lagercrantz, a Swedish author, takes up the authority to continue with the legendary Millennium series of the international bestselling Swedish crime writer, Stieg Larsson. And Lagercrantz has proved that Lisbeth Salander cannot be dead, by projecting her with an immense power and energy in the latest installment of Millennium series, The Girl in the Spider's Web.




Synopsis:

In this adrenaline-charged thriller, genius-hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist face a dangerous new threat and must again join forces.

Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a trusted source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female super hacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering.

Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Lisbeth for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda.



The story is twisted and puzzling like a spider's web, although a spider's web is very neat, yet it has the power to confuse it's prey and will finally lead into the death trap. Lisbeth fell in that trap when she smartly hacked in the NSA's database for her own personal agenda. Whereas Blomkvist is fighting for his magazine Millennium which has been sold out to corporate biggies due to a financial crunch, (blame it on Harriet Vanger!), but right at the moment when Mikael was sulking with a dry spell of no major stories, he receives a strange call from a source about information which includes USA and can be a major story about a genius professor and also about a female hacker, and thus the story begins with a full force that is bound to pull the readers into Lagercrantz's own personal spider's web.


Lagercrantz's writing style is brilliant and fantastic and the way he explains each and everything with such intricate details is amazing. The story builds up with a steady pace in the first half and as the mystery gets twisted and turned into the deep dark word of hidden agenda to overpower, it hits the fast addictive pace. The book is not an edgy one, but it is so mystifying which will keep the readers hooked onto the core and heart of the mystery to follow it till the very end. The narrative is equally engaging and underlined with Blomkvist's sarcasm at times.

The characters are brought to life with the same touch and with the same intuitive power to leave the readers in awe with their fight for justice as well as truth. The primary characters aside, the supporting characters especially a mother, a chief, and many other such characters impacted the story like anything.

The author has maintained same bad-ass-girl demeanor for Lisbeth who speaks sharp, with less words and with same old social awkwardness and with her same old zeal to fight for revenge all by herself, and with that same old skill. Her non-nonsense narrative will once gain make the readers fall for this anti-hero of the story. Mikael, too, is kept very similar to his old self despite of the bring lifestyle that he led, but the best part is that the author have focused a great deal of the story around Mikael and through his lens, which is intellectual as well as funny, the story is like a roller coaster that is never intended to come down to the ground. And when these two characters are seen fighting for the same cause from the two opposite ends, and this portrayal is done with utmost sagacity.

Well, David might not have achieved that Larsson's trademark style of mastery yet he brought, the once dead, incredible characters, to life with his own elegance, thus opening the doors with a promise that Salander-Blomkvist duo will return again and again with new captivating and intriguing mysteries.

Verdict: A tremendously addictive as well as phenomenal plot that brings alive two of the most loved fictitious characters of crime fiction.

Courtesy: I received this book from Hachette India, for a blog tour. 

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Author Info:
Lagercrantz studied philosophy and religion at university and subsequently graduated from the Gothenburg journalism school. His first journalist job was at the in-house magazine of carmaker Volvo. He later moved to the daily tabloid newspaper Expressen and worked until 1993 as a crime reporter, covering some of the major criminal cases of the late 80s and early 90s in Sweden, notably the Åmsele murders. His first book was released in 1997, a biography of the Swedish adventurer and mountaineer Göran Kropp (1966 - 2002).


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Giveaway:

The giveaway is open to INDIA Only. And there will be 7 lucky winners among whom each will win a copy of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo , The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest , The Girl Who Played With Fire, The Girl in the Spider's Web and one book from the titles listed below:
1.       Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
2.       Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
3.       Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
4.       Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
5.       The Folded Earth by Anuradha Roy
6.       An Atlas of Impossible Longing by Anuradha Roy
7.       Rescue by Nicolas Sparks
8.       Under the Dome by Stephen King
9.       Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell
10.   The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
11.   The Elephant Catchers: Key Lessons for Breakthrough Growth by Subroto Bagchi
12.   In Spite of the Gods by Edward Luce
13.   Living History by Hillary Clinton
14.   To The Moon and Back by Jill Mansell
15.   Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
16.   Theodore Boone,Kid Lawyer by John Grisham
17.   One Day by David Nicholls
18.   The Devotion Of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
19.   Between The Lines by Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer and Yvonne Gilbert
                           20.   The Girl With All The Gifts by M.R.Carey



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6 comments:

  1. The girl in the Spiders Web sounds fasinating, I enjoyed the review and would enjoy reading the book. Thank you

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  2. Very detailed review & it really seems like an interesting read!

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  3. I have read the first book. Looking forward to read the rest. The review looks interesting.

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  5. That was one detailed review. I was a bit apprehensive if David would do enough justice to Steig's brilliant series. Your review makes me want to pick up that book!

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  6. Thanks for the review and the giveaway :)

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