Let the Right One In in Pick-a-Shelf

Jul 05, 2017 Paul Perry rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, male-author, fiction, scandinavian, vampire, read-in-2017, swedish, 1980s

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Oct 28, 2016 Madge rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: horror, vampires, kindle-books

Huh...

I've wanted to read this book for a few years until, finally, desperate for horror I own and haven't read yet, I remembered I had bought the Kindle edition of this about a year ago and forgotten about it. I'm glad I waited to read it, though, because I don't think I would have liked it as much if I hadn't been in just the right mood.

This kind of reminded me of the Vampire Chronicles books, just a little. Like, if Anne Rice and Stieg Larsson (no, not because he and Lindqvist are both Swedis Huh...

I've wanted to read this book for a few years until, finally, desperate for horror I own and haven't read yet, I remembered I had bought the Kindle edition of this about a year ago and forgotten about it. I'm glad I waited to read it, though, because I don't think I would have liked it as much if I hadn't been in just the right mood.

This kind of reminded me of the Vampire Chronicles books, just a little. Like, if Anne Rice and Stieg Larsson (no, not because he and Lindqvist are both Swedish, it's something about the tone or style, idk) had teamed up to write a vampire novel, with a little input from...someone else...Neil Gaiman, maybe...this is what the result would be. I'm impressed with the intricacies and spiderweb links between all the characters, and how developed they were, especially considering how many characters there were to keep track of.

I love the take on vampires for this book. I haven't encountered anything exactly like it before, and I like it. (view spoiler) It was very well done and managed to remind me of plenty of other vampire stories while remaining unique.

I really liked Eli and a few other characters, but I wasn't a big fan of Oskar's, to be honest. My heart broke for Eli, and Virginia, Lacke, and Gösta. (view spoiler) Probably others, but it's all kind of a blur right now. There were a lot of characters, which is something I'm normally not fond of, but I liked it in this case. Maybe because each character stood out so much. (view spoiler)

I feel like the ending wasn't totally satisfying, but I like that for some reason. I like that it's kind of...open, or something. I kind of wish this was part of a duology. ...more

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Shelves: fiction-general

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Nov 18, 2010 Mercy rated it it was ok

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Jan 02, 2011 Jayalalita devi dasi added it · review of another edition

Shelves: miscellany-read, swanks-and-darlings, love-destroys, z-2011-spring-src, pedoflop, spirits-witchery-devils, transformation, androgyne, necro, cats

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