Let the Right One in - John Ajvide Lindqvist Reviews

Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In (I refuse to use the name of the pointless Hollywood remake) was an unexpected hit. A touching tale of friendship, loneliness and vampires, it showed that not all vampire films had to feature either violent blood-letting or teen-romance pap. Yet good as it was, the book on which it is based turns ...  Read the complete review

I came across the book before the film and while I did find great enjoyment in the book and can wholeheartedly recommend it as a page-turning bona fide vampire horror classic, by no means is it as wonderfully idiosyncratic as the film. Seeing as though I rate the film as one of the decade's best - this is by no means a criticism aimed at ...  Read the complete review

Another week another vampire book although I want to say from the start that this isn't your standard vampire book. By standard I mean that it is not made for the teenage audience, doesn't include the usual romantic entanglement with a beautiful vampire and it certainly doesn't glamourize vampires in any way. Although as a reader you ...  Read the complete review

Let The Right One In is a swedish horror novel that has been translated into english for a wider audience. It has also been made into a foreign language film and is considered to be very mature and adult in nature, dealing as it does with the legend of the vampire in ways that have seldom been done before... Oskar is a twelve ...  Read the complete review

A friend of mine recommended the film of this to me (which I have also reviewed) and, having thoroughly enjoyed it, I bought the book. Despite knowing the gist of the story (the film is reasonably true to the book), there was plenty more in the book to expand the characters and really draw you into the narrative. Whether you've seen the ...  Read the complete review

This is a novel take on the vampire theme by the Swedish author J. A. Lindqvist, recently turned also into a movie which was doing the rounds of the film festivals in 2008 and on general release in the UK in April 2009. Both movie and book are deeply dark and disturbing. The main characters are the little boy Oscar, insecure ...  Read the complete review

'Let the Right One In' first came to my attention as it was turned into a limited release Swedish film which I have yet to see but have seen many clips of on the internet. I tend to read a lot of vampire and 'supernatural' fiction, my favourites including Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series and 'The ...  Read the complete review