I loved the original books in this series, and I will continue to read their sequels by different authors. They are entertaining, but getting a little formulaic. This book was fun to read, but I find it hard to believe all the coincidences that keep happening between the characters. I did really enjoy the character of Svala, and the relationship between her and Lisbeth kept me going in the book. But if you like these books, and enjoy the theme of men doing terrible things to women, and then the women getting revenge, you'll want to keep reading too.

The latest addition to the Lisbeth Salander series, delivering a compelling Nordic Noir novel. With her own distinct voice, Smirnoff captures the essence of Stieg Larsson's iconic character while crafting an intricately woven tale.

In this installment, Lisbeth Salander once again finds herself immersed in a dark and treacherous world, where power, corruption, and violence collide. The narrative effortlessly brings forth the gritty atmosphere of the northern Scandinavian setting, immersing readers in a world where secrets lurk in every corner and danger looms at every turn.

Smirnoff's skillful storytelling, compelling character development, and atmospheric writing make this novel an intriguing crime fiction.

I was aware of other authors continuing the Millenium series after Steig Larsson's death, but I dismissed them as money chasers. I was offered this book for free by Net Galley and enjoyed it very much. It had a lot of the same feel of the original books, and I was happy to be reunited with Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomqvist. I have since borrowed the first one in the extended series, and I am enjoying that one as well.

I got about 25% in and it just wasn’t grabbing me. Maybe it will pick up when Lis Salander comes in? I’ve set it aside for now, but I’m hoping to get back to it at some point. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the early copy.

I was extremely excited to have gotten this from NetGalley and Knopf. As soon as I downloaded it, I immediately started reading it. I was sadly loosing interest and getting confused when people had thoughts and when they were speaking. I do wish Lisbeth had more of a role in this story. The pacing was a little off and at times a little confusing. Thank you Karin Smirnoff, NetGalley and Knopf for this digital copy.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read an ARC of this book.
I read all three of the Steig Larssen books and none of the next three written by another Scandinavian writer. This book is the first of a trilogy written by Karin Smirnoff that follows the last three. I did not feel that I had to have read
the last trilogy to enjoy this book.

I think Ms. Smirnoff is a good writer. It takes some courage to follow Larssen's book of Lisbeth and Mikael. The story jumps around a bit and I had to just hang in there and the pieces finally all fell together. Part of the fun of this book was the presence of 13-year-old, Svala, who might as well have been Lisbeth in the first book. She is wonderful and certainly takes center stage as she is as spunky, bright, and determined as Lisbeth ever was. The really bad guys are really bad. The good guys are imperfect humans and there are some right in the middle that just prove that the temptation to go the way of evil is so much stronger than the way of the good.

I enjoyed the book and look forward to the second in the trilogy.

This was a disappointment. I wanted to enjoy this new addition to the Millenium Series, but it was so gratuitous, and somewhat unclear. The author jumps from several perspectives and timelines which is difficult to follow.
Additionally, there isn't really a mystery at the heart of this novel like we have seen in the previous books. This was more of a gory thriller about drug lords and rich people in Norway.
Perhaps I am missing something as an American reader or perhaps there will be changes to the final edit (I read an arc). However, I'm sorry to say that this will likely mark the end of my time with the series.

great continuation of the series by a new author

thank you to netgalley and to the publisher for this review copy.

The Girl in the Eagle’s Talon
Lisbeth Salander is back. She has gone to the small Swedish town of Gasskas to take over the guardianship of a cousin, Svala. Mikael Blomkvist is also there to attend the wedding of his daughter. Mikael’s Millennium magazine has folded and he only produces podcasts now. He is also wary of the daughter’s fiancé, Henry Salo.
It turns out that Blanco, a ruthless international group, is interested in buying land in Gasskas to build an enormous onshore wind farm. When two of the landowners resist selling their property, Blanco takes drastic action. Then they must convince Henry Salo, a local official, to get the approval of the county for the project.
Lisbeth, her cousin Svala and Mikael all team up to thwart the criminals at Blanco.
This book is a continuation of Steig Larsson’s Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series. I enjoyed the book. However the authors tried but were unable capture the intensity of Larsson’s books. The book is not a stand alone story and new readers would learn little about the history of main characters.
I received this book from the publisher and Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.

This is the seventh book in the Millenium/Lisbeth Salander series, the third author who has tackled the characters and overall plot. I liked this book, but it wasn't my favorite. Hearing that it was a part of a trilogy, I will admittedly most likely read the other two when they are published.

Part of why it wasn't my favorite is because it took 30% of the book before I was really able to get into it. I am used to that since I have read the other books, but I still thought there should have been a faster pace pace before getting almost a hundred pages into the book. I also felt like at times there was some confusion in the translations.

Overall, once the action picked up, I found the book to be enjoyable. I want more interaction between Lisbeth and Mikael because it is definitely being set up to head that way. We will see what the next two books bring!

I loved this series when Steig Larsson wrote the original trilogy because it was so compelling and fun to read. I loved the characters of Lisbeth and Mikael Blomkvist. The Girl in the Eagle's Talon is the latest book in the millenium series. I love these characters overall, but they have changed and it is iffy if it is for the best or not. I'm inclined to say some of the changes were not necessarily for the best. Overall it was an okay read and interesting, but the story did not mention Lisbeth for a while and I didn't really like that since I enjoy her character so much. Thank you for letting me read an early copy of this!

Any time a new Lisbeth Saunders novel hits the bricks, I'm on board, no matter who has penned it. But despite utilizing the requisite elements that made the original Steig Larsson trilogy so compelling, such as corporate corruption at a high level and well done action sequences, this latest installment somehow lacks the spark that makes a reader root for Lisbeth no matter what she does. This time there is a personal element to the inclusion of Mikael Blomkvist that seemed forced. Much has been made of the fact that the newest writer to take up this challenge is a woman, but that should not be the overriding reason for choice of a writer. Or a translator. The pacing was off as was the character development. Others have pointed out the difficulties in translation, and that may have contributed to my negativity.

The Girl In The Eagle's Talon is another addition to the millineum series with Lisbeth Salander. Smirnoff is the third author to write in this series.
While it is good to see Salander back the series and characters have changed and not always for the best, with each author.
That said, it is a good book

Excellent continuation of The Girl…… loved the characters and the plot. This centers around Svala a thirteen year old who lives in the worse kind of hell. Her mother disappears and a motley crew of the worse kind of criminals are after a hard drive and password with a fortune in crypto currency. When her grandmother dies (murder) the gang takes Svala. She has special talents with numbers and can crack any code/safe. Svala is a genius and very determined to get revenge on these low life’s. She escapes temporarily and that is when social services gets involved and it’s revealed that Lisbeth is her Aunt through Lisbeth’s half brother who was murdered with Lisbeth’s evil father. The last thing Lisbeth wants is to be responsible for a teenager who in many ways is her spitting image. Svala wants two things; to find her mom and to understand who killed her dad. Meanwhile Mikael arrives in the same town for his estranged daughter ‘s wedding. Millennium has just shut its doors and was turning to podcasts. Mikael is at loose ends. After meeting his daughters’s fiancé, who is the manager of a small town counsel that is making shady deals for wind power. Throw in a psychopath Billionaire and the evil keeps on coming. Eventually Lisbeth’s and Mikael’s stories overlap. The book has many frightening twists and turns which make it a perfect continuation. Thanks to Netgalley for an ARC for an honest review. And Borzoi Books.

This book follows in the same style and legacy as the previously written books by Stieg Larsson. Mikael Blomkvist is headed to the town of Gasskas, where his daughter is marrying the local big shot on the town council. The town is in the midst of change as electricity is extremely cheap and corporations are looking to profit from the resources in the town. A new character appears, Svala, who is the niece of Lisbeth Salander. Svala has a disease that doesn’t allow her to feel pain even with broken bones. She is much older than her young years and the relationship between Svala and Lisbeth is interesting.

The story doesn’t mention Lisbeth for quite some time. It revolves more around the goings on in the town of Gasskas and with Mikael. The writing format/style was very similar to Stieg Larsson so if you enjoyed his style, you will enjoy this book. The story was interesting and there were definitely elements of bad men, greed and intertwined plots. Enjoy this next chapter.

The Girl in the Eagle's Talons marks the beginning of a third trilogy with a third author in the Millennium series started by Steig Larsson. I was very excited to get this advanced copy from NetGalley and Knopf, Pantheon, Vintage and Anchor. Thank you.

The girl with the dragon tattoo, Lisabeth Sanader, finds herself to be the only living relative available to determine the fate of her niece, Svala, whose father was Lisabeth’s step brother and also whom Lisabeth had a hand in his death. Lisabeth travels north to meet this thirteen year old genius and finds Svala in a mess of trouble. At the same time, Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and Lisabeth’s former ally in solving crimes, is in the area to witness his estranged daughter’s marriage to Henry Salo. He is the municipal bigwig looking to bring a wind farm into the area to the dismay of the landowners. Of course there is a wicked stepfather and a diabolical monster to contend with. The story pulls the desperate parts together into a cohesive story.

This is plenty of intrigue, murders, violence, abuse,kidnapping, trafficking and mayhem that is common throughout the series to keep you riveted. That said, I found the writing, translation or both to be somewhat less nuanced and sophisticated as I was hoping. There were a lot of italicized sentences and paragraphs giving us the thoughts of the speaker. This made the reading experience less enjoyable for me. It was more like reading annotations rather than the complete novel. Just changing back to the original font would have helped.

New adventures with Lisbeth Salander and her world are always welcome - and the newest author contributing to the series does a fine job honoring Stieg Larsson's original creation. This is an excellent read.

The inclusion of a mini-Lisbeth, in the person of Salander's niece, adds a fun twist to the story line. Thirteen-year-old Svala is a survivor, and she resembles her aunt in other cogent ways. Throughout the book, these two protagonists grow with and shape each other.

The villain Branco is really bad - and I wonder if we will see this twisted character in the future? He is appropriately creepy and disturbing. Other characters in the story are skillfully nuanced: not all good and noble, but not all bad beyond redemption. Mikael's daughter Pernilla is engaged to politician Salo, and both have their good and bad moments.

The author teases with Lisbeth and Mikael Blomkvist growing closer -- but only teasing in this book. The author has planned other releases for Lisbeth and Mikael in the future, so perhaps we will see a rapprochement in the coming books.

One aspect of Smirnoff's writing that kept me off-track: the time and spacing between events. Maybe visual spacing in the final version of the book will help clue-in the reader, but in the ARC I read, the story can jump a hundred miles and change setting within a pair of sentences or a single paragraph. Who is speaking or what is happening often shifts within a single paragraph or within a single page without clue- and the reader is expected to keep up with the author's narrative.

Often that narrative is sparse, and at times the reader must make assumptions (and hope they are correct) to understand who is speaking, or being spoken of, and what actually happens. Confusion is common.

Overall, though, the story is a great one, and I enjoyed the fresh adventures. There are a number of new and pivotal characters introduced, but at the same time favorites from Lisbeth's and Mikael's stories remain.

Thanks to NetGalley and Knopf Publishing for the chance to dive into this favorite story once again. The book will be released August 29, 2023. I have great hope for many future happy hours with this series.

I'm a bit conflicted about this book - and I'm not sure if it is because of the writing or the translation. Overall, I love this series, these characters, and the Lisbeth Salander character arc is fascinating. I was also excited to see Blomkvist and Salander together again on page. After a slow start, the storyline picked up a bit and I was drawn in to the plot. Just a head's up, this does end on a bit of a cliffhanger and is, according to the publishers, the first in a trilogy all written by Smirnoff.
Here's where it missed the mark - the characters, brought so much to life by Steig Larsson, felt like charicatures of themselves. Lisbeth and Mikael don't actually resolve any of their issues or really even talk all that much. I was also willing to distend my belief a little bit in terms of the characters coming together again, but ALL the characters?? Seemed a little far-fetched that they would all show up at the same time in the same almost unheard of small town.
Additionally, the writing was disjointed and fragmented. Again, I'm not sure if this is because of the translation or the writing style, but I'm thinking it's a bit of both. Often I was unsure which character's POV we were following since it seemingly changed in the middle of a page sometimes. There were so many characters introduced in the opening, it took a while to get them all straight. There were many "flashbacks" - I think - it was a bit hard to tell the timeline sometimes. There were some other parts where the writing was so much in fragments and so vague that I wasn't exactly sure what was happening - and I teach Shakespeare to teenagers... I'll probably finish the trilogy because I love these characters, but man, this book made me miss Steig Larsson and wonder what he would have done with these wonderful characters he developed.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publishers, and the author for the Advance Reader Copy of this translated version. The review above is my honest opinion based on my reading of the book.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher sending me an advance copy of this book. I wish I liked it more. It was marked "uncorrected proof," but to me it reads more like an early version of a manuscript that needs to be edited. I was expecting to find typos and maybe a few minor grammatical issues, but this book has more serious issues at its core.

I very nearly put it down at about 30% through, but Lisander finally showed up about then and I continued on. The author spent too much time early on with her new characters and their machinations without giving the reader any sense of why this all matters. It felt very disjointed and outright confusing at times. I noticed another reviewer mentioned odd phrasing and commented that maybe be due to problems in translation. I had the same thought. Many many words or phrases are either not translated at all or are turned in to an awkward phrase or word that makes you go back.

The author also frequently puts the cart before the horse. I went back to see when her character Svala (whom I really liked) started driving the car. There's no indication of that until she turns the wheel. Then Lisander and she have a discussion that explains why she's driving. That's just one example, but the same kind of thing occurs often throughout the book.

Amienoff also uses italics to indicate both a character's inner thoughts, but also when the character is hearing their mother or someone else "speak" to them. BUT, frequently it was difficult to tell which of the many characters was having this inner monologue.

For me, the biggest problem was the characterizations. I didn't like any of the characters enough to really care what happened to them. Even Lisander and Mikael are unlikeable in this book. Lisander's half-niece, Svala was the only character I really enjoyed. The others were mostly indistinguishable from each other in their dialogue--another issue that made it hard to tell who was talking. Lisander is not much on the ball in this one. She seems clueless about TikTok, and the issue of whether Plague has betrayed her is implied, but never really dealt with.

I wish Smirnoff had given Svala her own book and not tried to resurrect Lisander and Mikael.

I was thrilled when I saw that the Millennium series was going to be continuing with a new author. I loved the first trilogy, then the second trilogy. Lisbeth Salander is a fantastic, one-of-a-kind character, and I couldn't wait to see what other craziness she could get involved with. On the whole, I enjoyed this one, but not as much as I liked the previous books. It felt to me that there were too many storylines and at times I had a hard time following what was going on. It all came together for the most part in the end, but I still felt like there were some unanswered questions - maybe they'll be answered in the next two books? Which I will definitely read. I still love this series and I'm hoping we'll get more of Svala (Lisbeth's 13 year-old niece)!