Let the Right One In
2004 • 513 pages
Ratings41
Average rating3.8
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Ratings41
Average rating3.8
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 bookLet the Right One In is a 1-book series first released in 2004 with contributions by John Ajvide Lindqvist and Ebba Segerberg.
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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”.
I have no clue how this book won awards. Granted it hit the mark on creepy, disturbing and weird, but award winning? No. First off the vampire concept made no sense to me. Yes ok, the author tried an original take, but it just didn't add up for me. Now let's talk about the book as a whole. The beginning was promising. Internal conflicts, a disturbed child and a creepy murderer hovering in the background. This all built itself into a Stephen King like feel, but then the middle came. Where I have no idea what happened other than being subject to disturbing dark sexual displays and internal monologs from characters I didn't care about. In fact I felt like the whole pack of drinkers were just extra. They didn't contribute to the story progression much. The only characters I even wanted to hear about were Oskar and Eli, but by the end of the book I was struggling to even care about them as well. The ending was predictable and left me unsatisfied. There was too little explained and a bunch of questions left hovering about. Not an author I will continue to read.
