Sieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Review

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a great book with mysteries twist and turns, it follows a journalist named Mikael Blomkvist who is forced to resign from the magazine he works at Millennium. After his reputation is disgraced and he ends up with jail sentence. Before his sentence begins he is made an offer he can’t refuse, by an ageing business man Henrik Vanger. Who wants him to help find out what happened to his Granddaughter who disappeared 40 years ago. Blomkvist in lists the help of a young computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander and together they uncover some of the Vanger family’s darkest secrets encountering many dangerous and mysterious situations along the way.

This is a griping read although a little slow at first with heavy story line.

If you’re not into graphic, intense, mystery, crime novels with lots of twists and turns this book may not be for you, but if you like this type of thing I highly recommend this one.

Larsson outdid himself with this one.



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Ian Rankin Hide & Seek Review

Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This was the first Rankin novel I read. It’s mainly about a junkie found dead in a squat looking like what appears to be a human dark magic sacrifice, thought the book Rebus uncovers links to parts of Edinburgh’s underworld and some so called respectable people. Rebus uncovers the entire twisted affair in his usual gruff manner.

I think this book is good read and I would recommend it anyone who likes detective stories or the Rebus TV show.

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Ian Fleming Casino Royal Review

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Great classic Bond novel from Fleming.

James Bond 007 is sent to Jamaica on a mission that is centred around a man linked to SMERSH and the Soviet Union.

In the typical style of later Bond novels Bond is working with Female agent named Vesper Lynd and we all know what will happen here.

This book is one of the best Bond novels ever written by Fleming it has everything action drama and that style and sophistication found in many of the later Bond novels along with gadgets villains and everything else, this is also the first time we see the infamous Felix Leiter who tends to popup now and again in the series.

I think this is great read and I would recommend it anyone who likes 007 or Ian Fleming, in the words of Bond “The bitch is dead”


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Andy McNab Dark Winter Review

Dark Winter by Andy McNab
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a great book with a good story line that makes you what to keep reading it's a typical book of the Nick Stone series, action packed with the usual air of danger and excitement of a McNab novel.

This book is set manly in the UK Stone is a guardian to a troubled teenage girl haunted by the events of the past, the story is centred around a certain strain of the pelage that has fallen into the hands of terrorists.

I think this is a great book following the Nick Stone form but it’s not as good later books like Recoil and Aggressor. I would recommend this book to fans of Nick Stone.


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