the girl with the lil monster

Let's continue the bit of the housewife thingy another time. Someone has been complaining that I get boring when I got married..hehehe.Quoting a certain you-know-who..'all married people ever talked about are their kids and husbands and cooking'. Gosh..am I one of those boring housewives who posted pictures of their cookings and recipes in their blogs?Hey..i love that kind of blogs which some people think kind of lame but I am housewife, I need to cook right?Ah..I am turning into a bore.

It has been one of my secret dream job to be a reviewer. I mean..if u work like in the The New York Times, u r paid handsomely, u get free stuff and people are scared of u..hahaha..the book, movie or even food critic in The Times must have a blast doing their job. I had the privilege of reading a very good book this month.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Normally, I would not read such heavy stuff because such books would haunt you and you just can't stop thinking about it even after you have finished it. But curiousity got the best of me and I grab this book wondering what all the hype is all about. Oooh it certainly live up to all the hype. Quite dark actually. Normal Malay readers (or even normal Malay women) would not find this entertaining..hehehe very XS adult book which actually remind me of Miss Wanie's fav J.D. Robb series.

It's about Blomkvist; a journalist who is investigating the disapperance of an heiress Harriet Vanger at the family gathering which happened some time ago. The suspects includes the members of the wealthy but weird Vanger family who each have their own hidden agenda.

The mystery and characters are riveting but the book has a very documentary feel and quite dragging at times. It's a complex whodunnit book. U have to really read it page by page otherwise u'll be missing important clues. The girl with the dragon tattoo actually referred to Lisbeth Salander; a hacker who is helping Blomkvist with the snooping. She's a brilliant gothic chick with a secret past which will be revealed in the next 2 books.

Spoilers alert! I really like the ending because Stieg Larsson have the decency not to kill the heiress. It's a nice twist rather than ending it with the cliche 'the heiress' body was found buried somewhere..' . There's a real dark and sinister secret behind her disappearance and women readers will be cringing at times reading this novel.

Conclusion: a good read but quite heavy. If ur not into this kind of stuff maybe u should read a nice feel-good chick lit instead which I did just to get the gory stuff of this book out of my mind.
Yup..I'm not good with horror movie and violence. I love mystery novels but sometimes the eerieness kind of stuck with u..right?