The multilayered The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines a closed-room murder mystery with financial intrigue, family saga, social commentary, and some truly memorable characters.
The story starts out slow, but overall it is well-paced. While Mikael Blomkvist is the novel's protagonist, his accidental assistant Lisabeth Salander (she of the dragon tattoo) is just as compelling and sympathetic a character. I'm much more interested in what will happen to her in the following books than I am in Blomkvist's future.
That's really interested to know about the original title. That explains why there is so little actually mentioned about that specific tattoo in the book. Although he talks about her strange appearance and tattoos in general, I didn't feel like there was any special significance to the dragon one.
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