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Book Review of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, Bk 1)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, Bk 1)
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This book started slow, there were a lot of details to muddle through, but I became intrigued and would look forward to reading it, when, BAM, about a third of the way through there was a detailed description of a rape. After that the book became very unbelievable, the immediate reaction of the heroine to this rape was very, very unrealistic, the male author makes the mistake of trying to write how she felt about it. It is one of those disappointing books where the male author writes about the feelings and motives of the female lead character, and utterly and completely misses the mark. The rest of the book goes downhill from there. What starts out as a promising and interesting book, slides into the muck and filth of sadism, all the while describing the acts in gory detail. No thanks, I will not be reading the rest of the series.