Let the Right One in - John Ajvide Lindqvist Reviews

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 year old ...  Read the complete review

The back of the book says: "Twelve year old Oskar is an outsider, bullied at school, dreaming about his absentee father, bored with life on a dreary houseing estate. One evening he meets the mysterious Eli. As a romance blossoms between them, Oskar discovers Eli's dark secret - she is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in ...  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 film or ...  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 and bullied ...  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 Vampyre' by Tom ...  Read the complete review