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_evyn_'s review
3.0
This is my favorite series but my first time reading the graphic novels. I don't like the differences very much but I recognize their necessity. Overall good but I didn't realize this was part 1 of 2 and I don't have access to part 2 so that's annoying but c'est la vie
bucketofdads's review
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
kittyg's review
3.0
I'm giving this one a 3.5*s overall as I have already read the book before and I was gifted this a while back. The artwork fits with the style of the book, it's dark, gritty and filled with blood and shadows. I think it was certainly the style it needed to be for this kind of book, but saying that it's also not my personal favourite style of artwork. Lisbeth was a fantastic character and the way she was drawn I thought was truly spot on, some of the other characters weren't quite as good, but it was easy enough to tell them apart.
The story stuck pretty close to what the original book goes through (just abbreviated) and I actually found that I had forgotten a lot of the story so this was an excellent refresher for me. I loved being able to quickly read the storyline and to see the action on the page before me too as it was pretty intense at times and it did get my heart-beat going at the climax.
In terms of the content this is for sure an adult book and graphic novel and it's got a lot of blood, sex, rape and more. There is torture and there is sever ptsd from past horrible situations, it's not a particularly 'fun' read. That said I think if you don't mind all that it's an exhilarating story and has a lot going on which is exciting (although I'd recommend the book over the graphic novel for first time readers).
What I liked most about this adaptation was that, being adapted by a female, it dealt with the trauma of Lisbeth and the other women in Sweden really well and we got to see her pov in the right way which was great. 3.5*s overall.
The story stuck pretty close to what the original book goes through (just abbreviated) and I actually found that I had forgotten a lot of the story so this was an excellent refresher for me. I loved being able to quickly read the storyline and to see the action on the page before me too as it was pretty intense at times and it did get my heart-beat going at the climax.
In terms of the content this is for sure an adult book and graphic novel and it's got a lot of blood, sex, rape and more. There is torture and there is sever ptsd from past horrible situations, it's not a particularly 'fun' read. That said I think if you don't mind all that it's an exhilarating story and has a lot going on which is exciting (although I'd recommend the book over the graphic novel for first time readers).
What I liked most about this adaptation was that, being adapted by a female, it dealt with the trauma of Lisbeth and the other women in Sweden really well and we got to see her pov in the right way which was great. 3.5*s overall.
jackiijackii's review
3.0
The trilogy was amazing, and their translations into film were equally amazing, so perhaps a graphic novel just isn't the perfect medium for this story that I love as novels and films. It felt more like... someone read it and had an artist draw the scenes verbatim (does that work in a words-to-image context?), but with a very limited number of pages. The art wasn't bad, not at all. Lisbeth is stunning. But there was a lot of empty space in the book, filled with landscapes and cerebral stuff, and sometimes just quietness, which works well to create a mood in a book, but in this context, I just found it kind of boring. I also wasn't loving the emphasis on Blomkvist's weird, passive-aggressive relationship with Cecilia. It made it seem like she was going to have a bigger role in everything, instead of having just one instance where we see she's kinda crazy and needy and leaving it at that. There were too many other things that could have been included that would have fit nicely with this edited/shortened version, and Cecilia took up too many panels for me. But then, the one-page flashback of Lisbeth seeing her mom beaten up made her childhood and state of mind immediately clear in those few panels, so I don't know why everything wasn't as succinct. Still love the story though, so three stars it is.
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