title: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Book 2
author:  Denise Mina 
description: For the closing volume of the graphic-novel adaptation of the first book in Larssons blockbuster trilogy, our critique is much the same as the opener. Mina does an admirable job of distilling Larssons wordy prose, and the art is bold and effective. Series fans who still cant get enough of the story line may enjoy scrutinizing this to see which small liberties Mina has taken (a little more banter between Blomkvist and his lovers, for example). But its an uneven interpretation of Larssons alleged feminist bent: full-page entries with statistics about sexual violence lose some of their impact when followed by gratuitous frames of Salander in her underwear. In the novels, Salander is a genuinely fascinating character, and the books would never have been so big without her. Both Noomi Rapace and Rooney Mara conveyed her damaged psyche hauntingly onscreen. Here, with her interior voice quieted, shes little more than a punky, bisexual computer hacker who looks cool on a motorcycle. And if teenage boys are fantasizing about her, then its mission unaccomplished. --Keir Graff
zlib_text: THE DRAGON’S TATTOO
  
  BLUEWATER COAST: BOOK 1
  
  ROXIE RAY
  
  CONTENTS
  Prologue
  1. Skylar
  2. Anthony
  3. Skylar
  4. Anthony
  5. Skylar
  6. Anthony
  7. Skylar
  8. Anthony
  9. Skylar
  10. Anthony
  11. Skylar
  12. Anthony
  13. Skylar
  14. Anthony
  15. Skylar
  16. Anthony
  17. Skylar
  18. Anthony
  19. Skylar
  20. Anthony
  21. Skylar
  22. Anthony
  23. Skylar
  24. Anthony
  25. Jace
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  The Dragon’s Tattoo
  
  PROLOGUE
  
  T
  ANTHONY
  he room was full of dragon shifters and humans, mingling uncomfortably. My parents had
  done exactly as I’d asked, thank goodness. The decorations weren’t over the top, and they’d
  even hired a DJ.
  My best friend’s voice cut through my introspection. “Give it up!”
  I looked around, searching for Skye. I’d been looking for her for half the party. I hadn’t seen her
  since it started, but I’d been pulled aside several times by members of my clan, congratulating me on
  my sixteenth birthday.
  Normally these parties were clan only, but I’d insisted my hu