Seven novels, three authors, one title: the saga Millennium continues. Now that Stieg Larsson, the creator of this very particular universe, is almost forgotten and the one who brilliantly stretched the sauce, David Lagercrantz, has moved on to something else, a Swedish novelist, Karin Smirnoff, is trying to breathe new life into Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist. With very mixed success. This time, she invents a niece for Lisbeth, Svala, a sort of improbable mutant with astonishing gifts. Blomkvist plays a very discreet role in this story which never really takes off. Because even if Karin Smirnoff tells her story by situating it at the heart of the most current concerns — ecology, green economy, etc. — and it features truly nasty “bad guys”, the flow doesn’t quite flow anymore. Are we to believe that the vein Millennium is finally exhausted?
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