 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A book set in a place that's on your bucket list to visit
The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, by David Lagercrantz The fifth book in the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo series, this one picks up where The Girl in the Spider's Web left off. Lisbeth Salander is serving a brief prison sentence for her actions at the end of the previous book. (Prison isn't on my bucket list to visit, but most of the story takes place in Stockholm, which is.) The prison is dominated by a gang, and the warden seems like a pushover for a guy in his profession. There are two intersecting plots: Lisbeth is trying to rescue a Bangladeshi woman from both the prison gang and her Islamist family. And journalist Mikael Blomkvist is investigating an illicit study done on twins. The fact that Lisbeth is a twin is definitely relevant here. Aside from the aforementioned Islamist family, the main villains are once again women: Lisbeth's sister Camilla, the prison gang leader, and a love-to-hate doctor who uses her "authoritative" manner to get away with some really brazen horrors. Mikael Blomkvist continues to have amazing luck with women, with yet another new girlfriend. The author continues to tease the possibility of love (or at least renewed lust) between him & Lisbeth. There's one cheating-death escape that absolutely strains credulity - but it was so thoroughly earned by the characters that I was cheering.
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