The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson

I finally got to the last book in Stieg Larsson's trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, which is the finale to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. This is the one book that you have to have read the others to get the most out of it. It picks up right where The Girl Who Played with Fire left off with Lisbeth Salander in the hospital recovering from her gunshot wounds and all the bad guys still alive and kicking. Although she spends the majority of the book confined to a hospital bed, this book has more adventure and intrigue than any of the previous books. It is obvious Larsson is going for a big ending here as he ties up a lot of the loose ends.

I have chronicled Larsson's death and the fallout in a previous review, so I won't go into all that again. Suffice to say it is a shame that another book will not be forthcoming as there is still a lot more that could have been mined out of these characters.