Finished this today, it was ok but 2 things really really annoyed me about it.
1-The forced and utterly pointless connection of Marvel comic books, Salander's online alias is WASP, yeah apparently it's from the Marvel superhero, it even shoehorns in mentions of Thor and Thanos etc, I know that Marvel is popular at the moment but come on for fucks sake, there was just no need for it, it really wound me up
2-It is basically the 1998 Bruce Willis film Mercury Rising, I mean the whole concept...
The NSA are massively corrupt and a young autistic kid who also happens to be a savant has info that they don't want getting out, their only option is to kill him, then the hero has to 'unwillingly' take the kid into their care and protect them with their very life.
Is that a little summary of Mercury Rising or is that a little summary of The Girl In The Spiders web? the answer is it is honestly a little summary of both of them.
And I was always going to end it by saying that he didn't get Salander's character right, she was like a watered down version of the original.
4 out of 10
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