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I am entirely baffled as to why this book has gotten so much praise. The writing itself is choppy and uneven, something I was willing to chalk up to the fact it had been translated while I was reading but distracting nonetheless. The end was so weak that I couldn't even laugh at it.

None of the characters are likable. Most of the adults are drunks with no jobs or lives to speak of. And every single person here spend most of the book wallowing in self pity and feeling sorry for themselves. Oskar is picked on at school and you start off feeling sorry for him, until you realize he's a serial killer waiting to happen. Not to mention the shoplifting.

The so called twist with Eli was so blatantly advertised beforehand that they might as well have put up a big neon sign to spell it out.

Both the Tommy and Virgina and the drunks story lines could have been completely dropped and we wouldn't have missed a single thing aside from the large number of pages it took up. We could have easily lost 200 pages and not been missing a single thing here.

Some of the vampire mythos was interesting but there was so little of it that it just wasn't enough to make me walk away from this book feeling like I enjoyed it. I just felt like I'd lost hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Maybe the movie is better. Not sure I'm willing to take the time to find out.


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Let the Right One in John Ajvide Lindqvist 9781847241696 Books Reviews

I'd hate to give less than 5 stars, because I do think it was a well written, effective novel. But really I did not enjoy it. Horror really is not my genre, and this is kind of like horrific realism (if there is such a thing), and frankly my reading this book was a mistake! I was taking a trip to Sweden and wanted to read a few Swedish novels before going, and this was highly rated and sounded intriguing, but somehow along the way I missed the part about it being super dark and creepy. Like really dark and creepy. But good - I admit - just not fun or comfortable for me ( and yet I had to read to the end)! I hear the movie is also a horror genre classic. Let's just say, I won't be watching! But if you like the dark and creepy, this is for you! It really was well done.
Google the word atmospheric and this book should be the first result of the search. This story is a full sensory experience transporting you back to 1981 in a cold, gray suburb in Sweden. What is billed as a horror story is less horror and more heartbreak. The sheer terror of this story is brilliantly tempered with the tragic lives of two children, Oskar and Eli, who both find themselves living on the periphery of a life they desperately wish to belong.

"Why can’t I be allowed to live? Because you should be dead."

This is so much more than a vampire story. Even in the world of vampire novels this one is head and shoulders above any other modern-day interpretations.

I've read so many reviewers express the heartbreak they felt over Oskar, and while that is a given, it is little Eli that captured my heart and then crushed it. Although the glimpses we were allowed were horrifying beyond compare, I really wish the author would have allowed the readers an even broader view of Eli's backstory. Actually, I would love to read a prequel novel on Eli's life and death prior to our meeting her on the playground with Oskar. And that alone is my only criticism of this beautifully tragic book, although I would hardly describe wanting more as a criticism.

I am a super fan of the movies based on this book, both of them doing a splendid job at reducing this story into the time allotted without completely destroying it's complexion. But, as with all page-to-screen endeavors, the magic is in the details, more so in this story than most. So, if you've seen the movies and thus feel as though there's really no reason to dive into the book at this point, you couldn't be more wrong.
This is one of the best vampire novels I've ever read (the other one is The Historian). It's gory, macabre, melancholy, sardonic, and sometimes downright comical. It may appear to meander about, but it has a single, laser-focused theme vampires are among us! Bullies, alcoholics, pedophiles, all these damaged humans are clearly the real vampires. The detailed character development of these fatally flawed humans, the exposition of their pathetic, damaged and destructive lives, and in the perfect chilly setting, is so psychologically valid that you will need to decompress afterwards. It will make your most annoying relative seem refreshingly pure. You will find yourself rooting for the vampire, especially given the backstory, and probably cheer, as I did (okay, if you were bullied, as I was), during a certain scene where they swoop in all deus ex machina. If you watch[ed] the movies, the foreign version is closer/better. The American version is watered down in the dumbest way. Ugh, are we really such hicksters now?
I'm normally not a fan of the vampire genre, but this book transcends that classification. While horror plays a gripping role in the plot, it is more the horror of human beings--of their violence and cruelty--than it is the horror of vampires. Characters are written with a perfect mingling of cynicism and compassion--with no character being truly heroic and none being pure evil--and the selfishness and selflessness of the human condition are both given their due. The setting is gritty realistic even when the plot can verge on the fantastical, and I would recommend this book not only to horror fans but also to a general reader.
I am entirely baffled as to why this book has gotten so much praise. The writing itself is choppy and uneven, something I was willing to chalk up to the fact it had been translated while I was reading but distracting nonetheless. The end was so weak that I couldn't even laugh at it.

None of the characters are likable. Most of the adults are drunks with no jobs or lives to speak of. And every single person here spend most of the book wallowing in self pity and feeling sorry for themselves. Oskar is picked on at school and you start off feeling sorry for him, until you realize he's a serial killer waiting to happen. Not to mention the shoplifting.

The so called twist with Eli was so blatantly advertised beforehand that they might as well have put up a big neon sign to spell it out.

Both the Tommy and Virgina and the drunks story lines could have been completely dropped and we wouldn't have missed a single thing aside from the large number of pages it took up. We could have easily lost 200 pages and not been missing a single thing here.

Some of the vampire mythos was interesting but there was so little of it that it just wasn't enough to make me walk away from this book feeling like I enjoyed it. I just felt like I'd lost hours of my life that I'll never get back.

Maybe the movie is better. Not sure I'm willing to take the time to find out.