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Average rating3.9
Oskar lives with his mum in a Stockholm highrise. He likes eating sweets and collecting stories of violent murder from the newspaper, and he has a slight incontinence problem. The kids at school call him Piggy and beat him up. Luckily, the new girl next door shows promise. Eli smells a bit and never seems to feel the cold and sometimes her hair has a lot of grey in it. So there’s a good chance she’s an even bigger misfit than Oskar. But her ‘father’ is another matter. There’s a whiff of something very bad hanging around him. Right after their arrival, a child’s body is found hanging from a tree, and amid the media frenzy other weird things start to happen. The police think it’s a serial killer. They’re so wrong.
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1 primary book2 released booksLet the Right One In is a 2-book series with 1 primary work first released in 2004 with contributions by John Ajvide Lindqvist.
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I got just over 25% of the way through, but I wasn't feeling the main POV/narrator. I'll definitely revisit this, but not anytime soon.
One of the best horror books I've read in awhile. The real-life fears of bullying, alcoholism, pedophilia, loneliness, and poverty juxtaposed with the supernatural terror of vampirism.
It is genuinely chilling and emotionally moving.
I was invested in all of the characters, including feeling empathy for the “villains.”
The ending was amazing, a little bit open-ended but also satisfying.
Un très beau roman, passionnant. Derrière une histoire fantastique de vampire se cache une description de la fin de l'enfance, de la solitude des banlieues occidentales, de la misère sociale. Une grande claque qui a été adapté dans le très bon film “Morse”.
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