(Warning-Possible (very small) spoilers)The writing is, overall, quite disjointed.  The first thing that struck me was that I was 85% certain that I knew the identity of the villain as soon as the character was even SPOKEN about, much less introduced.  Needless to say, I was 100% certain when the villain does something dumb that shows him to be the bad guy... and no one catches on.  Not surprisingly, I had also been able to warrant a very good guess as to what happened with Harriet.I found the character of Blomkvist kind of a drag.  It's hard to pull for someone who is so BLAH.  He ruined his marriage by continuing to sleep with Erica, but I'm never sure WHY.  She's married, it is clearly NOT the great love of his life, and they have little to no real chemistry.  The 'relationship' seems forced, and to be honest it skeeved me out that she would tell her husband when she was going to sleep with Blumkvist.  Eww.Blumkvist is totally dense and doesn't pick up HUGE clues about what happened with Harriet, even though it's pretty obvious who the bad guy was, and the answer to what happened to her (without the details of how) is there the entire time.  The answer is so ridiculously in your face, you almost feel let down when it turns out to be what you always knew it was.  I figured with the reviews here, the solving of the crime must pack quite a punch!  I was wrong.To top it all off, the writer makes sure to let us know that, on top of being a bad husband & an idiot, Blumkvist is also a crap parent. Woo woo, what a hero.  He's an idiot who will (LITERALLY) sleep with anyone and has no emotional depth.  WHY were we supposed to be rooting for him??Salander was (obviously) the more interesting character here.  But I feel like the author took a certain joy in having her treated like terribly. Seriously, what else ABSOLUTELY AWFUL could happen to this poor girl?  The ending angered me to no end.  She finally makes an enormous emotional leap, only to have her hopes smashed by the idiot with NO EMOTIONAL DEPTH!And of course he remains oblivious to the carnage he has wrought with this ridiculous 'relationship' with Erica.Seriously, I hated the character of Blumkvist & really feel he ruined the whole book.  Lisabeth should have been the main character and the entirety of the book should have been told from her perspective.  Of course, had that happened, the book would have been about 200 pages long... because Lisabeth would have figured it out PRONTO.The writer used the dumber character to try and slow down the 'climax' of the (paper thin) story. 

Question: What is hero?
Answer: is clearly NOT the great love