Millennium Trilogy

Title(s):
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2005)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2007)
Author: Stieg Larsson
Genre: Crime/Mystery/Thriller
Age: Mature High School Students
Summary: This series follows the story of two main characters Mikael Blomkvist, a journalist, and Lisbeth Salander, an introvert with a photographic memory. The two meet through unlikely circumstances, and are kept together by even unlikelier circumstances.
My Thoughts: I had to be heavily persuaded to read this set of books, so I am a little late on the "I love the Millennium Trilogy" bandwagon, but I am there now.
I have to admit, it was difficult for me to get into the first book because roughly the first hundred pages are an introduction that involves many Swedish references that left me lost in the dust. Luckily, I had many people encouraging me to keep reading because from there on in it was like going down the most fantastic roller coaster. Each novel in the trilogy has the most sophisticated sets of twist and turns that keep you on the edge of your seat from one novel to the next.
Larsson is a master of not revealing too much at once. The stories are so complicated and well written that it takes the reader a while to realize that Larsson is 5 steps ahead of you.
I do offer one warning before picking up one of these books: there are a few graphically violent scenes throughout the trilogy, so if something like that would offend or upset you, these aren't the books for you.