The Girl in the Eagle's Talons

A Lisbeth Salander Novel (Millennium Series, Book 7)

De: Karin Smirnoff, Sarah Death - translator

Narrado por: Simon Vance

#1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER • Lisbeth Salander returns, in a trailblazing new installment to the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series • Also known as the Millennium series

Change is coming to Sweden’s far north: its untapped natural resources are sparking a gold rush with the criminal underworld leading the charge. But it’s not the prospect of riches that brings Lisbeth Salander to the small town of Gasskas. She has been named guardian to her niece Svala, whose mother has disappeared. Two things soon become clear: Svala is a remarkably gifted teenager—and she’s being watched.

Mikael Blomkvist is also heading north. He has seen better days. Millennium magazine is in its final print issue, and relations with his daughter are strained. Worse still, there are troubling rumors surrounding the man she’s about to marry. When the truth behind the whispers explodes into violence, Salander emerges as Blomkvist’s last hope.

A pulse-pounding thriller, The Girl in the Eagle’s Talons sees Salander and Blomkvist navigating a world of conspiracy and betrayal, old enemies and new friends, ice-bound wilderness and the global corporations that threaten to tear it apart.

©2023 Karin Smirnoff (P)2023 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Lisbeth Salander is back—and maybe better than ever. Karin Smirnoff’s take is both respectful of the past and ready for the future—altogether remarkable.”—Lee Child, author of No Plan B

“An absolute incident-packed thrill-ride from start to finish. Karin Smirnoff has taken on the legacy of a legend and done the series justice.”—Jo Spain, author of The Perfect Lie

“Smirnoff’s writing is wonderfully vivid. If books were birds, this would be a raptor diving towards its prey with brutal agility.”—Anna Bailey, author of Where the Truth Lies

Vance makes the most with a so-so plot

While I'm a fan of Vance's narration, this story was discombobulated. Definitely not as strong as the first five books, I struggled to stay with the book until the end. Here's hoping that the next entry improves on the story.

Way too disjointed.

This book was a let down. Loved the first six stories. Couldn’t wait for this one to end. First two writers great. Last one (Karin) not so much.

Shouldn't be part of the series

If it weren't for the familiar names and places, you'd never know this was part of the Dragon Tattoo series. Did the author even read the last books??? Lisbeth and Mikael are not the same characters we all loved and latched onto in the previous books, their bite, edginess, darkness, it's all gone, replaced with fluff and filler. It also seems like the author didn't want to research computer technology and terms for Lisbeth's character, and instead let Plague do all the tech work so the author wouldn't have to explain any computer work being done. Karen's Lisbeth is more concerned about having physical relationships than being a tech wiz, searching for answers, and kicking ass like Steig's Lisbeth. Like everyone else I thought the book was lame, lazy, and thoroughly disappointing.

Feels forced

Please don’t stretch this series out past it’s ability to follow an interesting and somewhat original story line. Some of the plot twists are ridiculous and have no supporting story or detail behind them.

Pretty simple. Either make it better or stop. Don’t ruin these wonderful characters.

Disappointing…

I have anxiously awaited this book coming out and was so bummed that the story took such a turn. Lizbeth has gotten soft and caring and Mikel and her working together was so little in comparison to previous novels.

3rd author of the series - and it shows

Simon Vance is one of my all-time favorite narrators. Without his work on this book, I would have never finished it.

I preordered this book because I like the series. I also failed to notice that there was a new author attached to the work. I don't know why we're onto a 3rd person, but there was an obvious downshift in quality.

If they don't change back to the previous author (David Lagercrantz), this will be my final read for the series.

Sad end to a great series

Just not nearly as good as the others. Sloppy writing, shortcuts and overly convenient plot devices.

Disappointed

Like other commenters, I agree that this author did not sufficiently know the character of Salander. Blumqvist felt very stiff and mundane, never really doing anything. Time jumps are always difficult but so much changed with his daughter that went unacknowledged, and then her story was never really resolved, at least not with her father. So much in this book was set up for success, but at the 3/4 mark I realized that the pacing was off. A good enough amount of set up but not enough resolution.
It would be one thing if this was the fourth book, but this far into the series there is a very prominent rhythm each book follows, and for good reason, that this book didn’t even come near to. Certain subtle changes were very obvious but not bothersome, though it seemed like the author was more interested in establishing her own characters than developing the originals.
Salander never watched movies, why would she know everything about Kill Bill Vol. 2? Little things like that, which felt off. The things Salander has gone through would never make one think that she would go see a therapists, especially a male one.
The villains weren’t fleshed out at all, you see near the end that the eagles nest had a whole network of people working there, were they all murdered for no reason? We aren’t told, nothing is wrapped up. Maybe too large a task for this author to handle. Salander used to be a badass, super cool and didn’t take shit from anyone, what happened to that?
Let down, but hopeful for a better follow-up.

NOOOOOOOO!

What a waste of time. The two main characters resemble nothing like the characters in the first couple books.

Decent narration.

Disappointing

I gave it a try. Pretty bad. The Swedish accents were more like British accents. I enjoyed
Lisbeth when she was an edgy, ninja like character.