Freaking Rollercoaster!

I just finished reading The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. It was truly a rollercoaster ride. It started off just like any ride. You get, sit down and buckle up. Then the train leaves the station and starts up. Nothing really exciting about that ride up...except you know you're going to go down and that downward spiral is going to rock your WORLD!

Stieg Larsson knows how to write a story. I really was turned upside down and just thrown for loop after loop after loop then upside down and then looped all around again. When I was reading the book I had two friends that had read the book before me. I e-mailed both of them to tell them my theory of who certain characters were and what I thought would happen. I wanted to prove I was a great mystery "reader"...and I was SOOOOOOOO wrong! I must say it was great to be wrong, though.

Have you ever read a book that abruptly ended and you were left desperately wanting more? Well, that wasn't the case in this book for me! Mr. Larsson started off soft and easy and then in the middle he shook me deep...and then he softly brought me back down. It was just...great!

Before I recommend this book I feel the need to put a disclaimer out there. This book is D-A-R-K. It is like nothing I've ever read before. I think the scary part for me is that there are people out in the world, the real world that we live in that do the kind of things that are described in the book. That's DANG scary. And...even as dark and scary as some of the book was, I didn't get any nightmares! I think it was because I read the worst part of the book AND the resolution all in the same day and I didn't go to bed wondering.

I would love to talk about the book with any of you that have read it! I don't want to give too much away for those that haven't. I will tell you that I love books where girls kick ass...and a girl in this book did. And...I can't wait to read the next two books! Oh, and it really helped to picture Daniel Craig as Mikael Blomkvist...YUM!!