The Girl who takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz

I'm a big fan of the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series - I've read all of the books and I saw the original movies in Swedish.  I haven't actually seen the English version of the movies.  I read The Girl in the Spider's Web in September 2017 and really liked it.

I started this one on/around January 1st and finished it on January 13th.  While I generally liked this book, it, to me, seemed a bit too formulaic.  It picks up where the Spider's Web leaves off, and Lisbeth is in jail serving time for her part in the craziness from the prior book.

Of course, Mikael, Holger, and several other regular characters, make their appearance, and of course we meet some new players.

Like with the other novels, Lisbeth takes an active role in righting a wrong.  In this one, there are a few wrongs that get righted all at the hands of Lisbeth and Mikael (as per usual).  They've really turned into quite the crime-fighting duo.  Like Scooby and Shaggy, Batman and Robin, Crocket and Tubbs, Cagney & Lacey.  Lisbeth does the sketchy behind-the-scenes stuff, and Mikael puts it all together and publishes an article to bring it all to light.  This version is very entertaining, and we find out a lot more about Lisbeth's tragic childhood and the source of inspiration for her dragon tattoo.

Even in jail, Lisbeth gets access to a computer and does some work with lists of people.  She clues Mikael into something but doesn't give him too much so as not to bias him.  It's slow going for Mikael at first since he really doesn't know what's going on.  But then... he figures it out.  There were some twists and turns with twins, and a bad people, revelations, violence, and revenge.

Bottom line - this book was entertaining and went to some unexpected places.  I don't think you need to have read all of the prior books to be able to enjoy this one, but I think it certainly helps to have some background into the characters and relationships they all have.  Lisbeth is a bad-ass and I like her.  

I'd give this a medium thumbs-up probably because I wish it had a little more originality and wasn't so formulaic.  But I guess that's sort of what you get when you are reading a book in a series.