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Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Why we're reading this: A story about social classes and vampires and growing up and bullying and ... A brilliant book!
[close] A story about social classes and vampires and growing up and bullying and ... A brilliant book!

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Oct 14, 2016 Carrie rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: library, vampire, translated, halloween-fall-time-reads, meh, dark-twisted-disturbing

So yeah no...I read it and I couldn't stop reading it but I never enjoyed it. It's like that accident that you shouldn't look at yet you can help but to continue to stare at.

It's twisted and disturbing yet kind of meh at the same time. I don't get the 5 star reviews, the book could have been much better, it was interesting but wasn't all at the same time. I couldn't put aside and not finish it and yet on the other hand my life wouldn't be missing much if I had never picked it up to start with. ...more

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Apr 07, 2015 Krissy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: pgs-500-599, audiobook

This book was... something else.

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Jan 28, 2012 Charlotte (Buried in Books) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: vampires, horror

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Oskar is a boy that dreams of being a serial killer - in his fantasies he takes revenge on the boys that bully him in school, but in real life he's victim, scared into incontinence. Until one night he meets Eli, the girl next door who only appears at night and lives with her father.

Tommy lives in the same building with his mother - who's dating a police officer. Tommy's into robbing and glue sniffing but he's friends with Oskar, as much as anyone can be.

Then there's the group of drunks that hang ...more

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Nov 15, 2019 Ketutar Jensen rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: halloween-25

WARNING, THERE'S SOME ANIMAL ABUSE IN THIS BOOK!
There's also bullying, violence, cruelty - so if you are a bullying victim, you might not want to read this book.

I like the story, I like the characters I like the writing. But I don't like animal abuse. ...more

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