The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I’ll be honest here.  The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is not a book that I would normally read.   I usually stick with Harlequin Romance Novels.  Ya know, books that will help expand my mind.

However, a few months ago, a friend of mine invited me to join her book club.  Since I am an avid reader and am always looking for new authors to read, I jumped at the opportunity.  The fact that I get to go out to dinner with an awesome group of ladies every month had nothing to do with it, I promise.

When the votes were cast as to which books we’d be reading for the year, this book was number one on the list.  In my head I was thinking, “Well, hopefully I can get it at the library because I am *not* putting out any money on this book.”  Luckily, I didn’t have to fight the six month long waiting list because my brother already had the first two books.

Although the first fifty pages or so were hard to get into due to the ever expanding family tree that, for whatever reason, needed to be explained before the plot was even fully introduced, once I passed that point, I literally could not put this book down.

I stayed up late every night to read this and kept promising myself I’d finally go to sleep after “just one more chapter”.

As soon as I was done with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, I immediately ran downstairs to grab the second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire, from my brother’s book shelf.

Unfortunately, all of that lack of sleep eventually added up and I wound up with a horrible migraine.  I didn’t let that stop me….I still kept reading.

As soon as I was done with the second book, I hauled myself off, in all my sweatpants’d glory, to the book store to buy the third book, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest. A little migraine, smudged eye liner and the fact that it was still in hardback was not going to hold me back.  At least until someone mentioned cooking dinner…. then I was totally down for the count, man.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, on its own, is easily the best book I have read all year.  The two follow up books make this trilogy a force to be reckoned with and have To Kill a Mockingbird threatened to be knocked from the top of my “Best Book Ever!!” list.  Yes really – I don’t only read trashy romance novels. Geesh.

So seriously, if you have considered reading these books, clickety clack your way over to amazon and buy them now.  I promise you won’t regret it.

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