John Ajvide Lindqvist’s “Let The Right One In”.

So finally got around this particular novel from this Swedish author, and it's also a book that I didn't know was one mostly because of knowing the movie adaptation of it. But that's all changed now, and I have finally read it!

Horror comes to the Swedish suburb of Blackeberg in the autumn of 1981, when the body of a teenager is found with their blood drained from them. A murder believed to be a ritual killing. Oskar, twelve-years-old, has been personally hoping for some kind of revenge to come for the bullying that he gets on a regular basis everyday.

But the murdered teen isn't the only thing that he has on his mind. Next door a new girl has moved, and a very strange one at that. She's never seen a Rubik's cube, but she manages to finish it. And there is also something very wrong with her, something that is completely wrong, and she only ever comes out during the night.

This one has been very interesting. There's always this sense of dread that can also explode into full blown moments of horror that borders on the disturbing. And it's also another interesting take on vampires also. In this case, even though the vampire here, Eli, has done some terrible things, I can't help but feel sympathy for. And I also feel sympathy for Oskar as well, despite him being pretty odd himself and also particularly dubious.

"Let The Right One In" is Lindqvist's first novel, and a pretty damn good one too! I've got at least several of his other books in my Amazon wish list, though I would as likely to find some of them at a local or big chain book store. Don't know which I'll end up getting, but I sure bound another that can be good also!