The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye
First edition cover (Swedish)
Author David Lagercrantz
Original title Mannen Som Sökte Sin Skugga (which translates to "The Man Who Chased His Shadow")
Translator George Goulding
Country Sweden
Language Swedish
Series Millennium
Genre Crime, mystery, thriller
Publisher Norstedts Förlag (Sweden), Quercus (United Kingdom), Alfred A. Knopf (United States)
Publication date
 12 September 2017 [1]
Media type Print
Pages 347
Preceded by The Girl in the Spider's Web

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye (original title in Swedish: Mannen Som Sökte Sin Skugga, literally "The Man Who Chased His Shadow") is the fifth novel in the Millennium series, focusing on the characters Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. Written by David Lagercrantz, this is the second novel in the series not authored by the series' creator and author of the first three Millennium books, Stieg Larsson,[2] who died of a heart attack in 2004. The novel was released worldwide on 7 September 2017.

Plot

Following the events in Lagercrantz’s first novel in the series, Salander is serving a brief sentence for the actions she took whilst saving August. [3] In prison Salander is disturbed by the bullying of a Bangladeshi prisoner by another prisoner. She also calls on Blomkvist for help after her original helpful guardian, Holger Palmgren, visits Salander with disturbing news from her past.

Reception

A review by The Washington Post says The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye "intensifies the mythic elements of Larsson's vision" and is entertaining.[4] However, The Guardian says that "There is a sluggishness to the plotting and much of the tension relies on orchestrated interruptions and delays, which irritate".[2] The review in USA Today calls Salander a fascinating character, and warns potential readers the reviewer thought she was not present for too much of the novel.[5] Paste magazine's review also noted the relative absence of Salander, asserting that Lagercrantz seemed to prefer focusing on new characters that he invented.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Biendenharn, Isabella (11 April 2017). "Next Lisbeth Salander novel gets 'eye'-catching title and cover". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 Orford, Margie (13 September 2017). "The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
  4. ↑ Corrigan, Maureen (11 September 2017). "Lisbeth Salander is back in 'The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye'". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  5. ↑ Patrick Ryan (2017-09-07). "Fascinating Lisbeth Salander is back in 'Eye,' although too often M.I.A." USA Today. Retrieved 2017-10-22. That Salander feels like an afterthought is the most frustrating thing about the exhaustingly titled Eye (Knopf, 368 pp., *** out of four stars, on sale Sept. 12), which otherwise delivers an engrossing, if low-stakes, mystery.
  6. ↑ Eric Swedlund (2017-09-12). "Lisbeth Salander's Saga Continues in The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye". Paste magazine. Retrieved 2017-10-22. Like The Girl in the Spider’s Web, this book is a worthy successor to Larsson’s trilogy. But The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye also feels like a tipping point, in which Lagercrantz begins to march the saga in a direction all his own.
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