Cramlington Book Club

In all the years of book club I can't remember us ever having reviewed a book only out in hardback. It was recommended to me by a fellow train commuter who knew I love reading and whose wife had read it and loved it. So it was me who suggested it to the group without realising it hadn’t made its way to paperback yet. Oops! The local library had a waiting list 9 people long, Amazon wasn’t coming up trumps and none of my Facebook friends had a copy so I resorted to borrowing a copy from my Auntie but had to wait for my mum (also a member of the book club) to read it first before I could indulge. Lucky for me it was easy to read and so the fact that I hadn’t even set eyes on the book two weeks before the meeting wasn't a problem. Although I got in to the book really easily it instantly reminded me of The Rosie Project , (an excellent book) and so I found myself a little disappointed that I had read the concept previously.  A few of the other members of the group commented o...

This book, written by Lagercrantz, is the fourth in the Millennium Series originally written by Stieg Larsson who died suddenly in 2004 before any of his novels reached international fame. The Series first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Dragon) was the first book to be reviewed by Cramlington Book Club and so holds fond memories for me. I have since then read the other books in the series ( The Girl who played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest) and was looking forward to catching up with Salandar and Blomkvist. It had been some time since I read them and so a direct comparison with Larsson was going to be difficult but maybe that was a good thing. Initially ' Spider ' seemed to step in where 'Hornet' left off. There were the same internal/financial struggles with Millennium, Blomkvist was down and out as he was in Dragon and old faces popped up left right and centre.   Here memory comes in to play and whilst there was a useful  ca...