The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Played with Fire The Girl Who Played with Fire () is the second novel in the best-selling "Millennium" series by Swedish writer Stieg Larsson. It was published posthumously in Swedish in 2006 and in English in January 2009. The book features many of the characters who appeared in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (2005), among them the title character, Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant computer hacker and social misfit, and Mikael Blomkvist, an investigative journalist and publisher of "Millennium " magazine. Widely seen as a critical success, "The Girl Who Played with Fire" was also (according to
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film) enjoyable and completely unnecessary". Rene Rodriguez of "The Miami Herald" said that the "fabulously sinister entertainment" surpassed the original film "in every way". The film took two and a half stars from "Rolling Stone" commentator Peter Travers, who concluded: "Fincher's "Girl" is gloriously rendered but too impersonal to leave a mark." A. O. Scott, writing for "The New York Times", admired the moments of "brilliantly orchestrated" anxiety and confusion, but felt that "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" was vulnerable to the "lumbering proceduralism" that he saw in its literary counterpart, as evident with the "long stretches of drab, hackneyed