[ SECRET POST #5380 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5380 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I can see this POV, but personally because of how it's written it never really bothered me. It's not like Blomkvist is framed as some kind of irresistible James Bond type whom tons of women just can't help but fall madly in lust and/or love with. It's more that he is a fairly emotionally-straightforward, reasonably successful, workaholic man who enjoys sex in a fairly uncomplicated way, enjoys the company of women, and is usually DTF if he meets a woman who, 1. Is reciprocally DTF, 2. He enjoys the company of, and 3. He respects professionally.

It also definitely helps that the narrative (and Blomkvist himself) cares a lot more about what the female characters are like professionally and as people, the challenges they're facing, how they're handling them, and what their active role in the story is, than it cares about their looks or if they're good in bed. Yes, the women Blomkvist sleeps with are all at least moderately good looking (or at least Blomkvist thinks they are), but to my recollection the narrative doesn't spend much time describing their appearances after the initial introduction (with the possible exception of Lisbeth because her appearance is such a Thing).

Personally I found the later Millenium books just fell flat for me. Stieg Larsson may not've been a great writer, but he had specific narrative sensibilities and a strong understanding of the conceptual bone structure of his story. The new writer didn't have any of that, which IMO soon made the story begin to feel bland and a bit vague and noncommittal.

[chamonix]

Blomkvist is basic author wish-fulfilment, but I can kind of give him a pass because a lot of his relationships with women are based on his personal and professional respect for them, and also because he tends to go for women in their 40s and 50s. That's actually hugely rare in this type of fiction and is super refreshing, especially when those women are given rich and nuanced character writing themselves.