Reviews tagging 'Murder'

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

60 reviews

nerdy_yinzer's review against another edition

Extremely explicit descriptions of pedophilia - no thanks. It was on the recommended shelf at Half Price Books and I thought it’d be something akin to a Salem’s Lot kind of scary vampire book…my bad.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual content, Rape, Violence, Murder, and Pedophilia

owlribbon's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Suicide, Violence, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

cousinrachel's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

The movie (Swedish original) had a much more "spare" plot with fewer characters and tangents--better for it, I think. My goodness, this book was all over the place--I think I read it about ten years ago but IIRC, 1/2 of the plot was about Oskar and Eli, the rest being side characters doing god knows what.

Also, the violence was gratuitous beyond belief, to the point of being ludicrous. My lord. Did we need that much information about the

alcoholic pedophile

?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Bullying, Violence, Rape, Pedophilia, and Sexual violence

A homeless, alcoholic man sexually abuses a child prostitute whose pimp has knocked out his front teeth. This man later develops an attraction to a different child, a vampire, becomes devoted to the child and enslaves himself to finding victims. When he ceases to be useful the child eats him, but he doesn't fully die and becomes a zombie-vampire. The zombie man then rapes the child.

The vampire child murders several people in order to eat them: she tricks someone into thinking she is injured so that the person tries to help and lets his guard down, enabling the child to kill him. A woman survives an attack only to become a vampire herself, and later sets herself on fire to avoid harming anyone else. Her fiance seeks revenge for her against the vampire, who overpowers and graphically slaughters him.

slushhhhy's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexual harassment, Violence, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Bullying, Gore, and Murder

saturnal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Chilling. I really appreciated that this focuses more on the vampire aspect than the romance aspect, the latter of which doesn't really feel tacked on or anything. Some of the grizzlier details left me feeling a little nauseated and i don't know how to word that as a positive so you'll have to trust me on that one 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Trafficking, Child abuse, Violence, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Bullying, and Death

ireneac's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Body horror, Bullying, Gore, Pedophilia, and Sexual content

astre_errant's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Bullying, Death, Gore, Murder, and Pedophilia

helenope's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

2.5

This was a book? I guess? if you want to read something with fucked up characters and really gory scenes, go for it, because other than that it lacks in everything else. Also it only starts getting minimally exciting past the 50% mark.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Pedophilia, and Rape

lizardgod's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Gore, Homophobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Trafficking, Drug abuse, and Transphobia

cryscries's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I watched the original movie first before the book and after reading it I can say it’s pretty faithful to the source material. It was such an amazing read that I didn’t feel like it was 472 pages. It’s dark and emotional and I love the relationship that forms between oskar and eli. I loved reading all the different perspectives of people living in that town and how the events unfolded and connected. Definitely a really good read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual content, Murder, Blood, and Self harm

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide attempt

I feel like the contents of this book ranges from moderate - graphic. There is a character who is attracted to eli named Hänkan - his perspectives can be very uncomfortable to read because he does go into a bit of detail about his attraction in the beginning of the book when he is somewhat introduced to attempting to r word eli towards the end of the book. Eli’s past holds a lot of trauma but does not glorify it in any way of anything it’s more character background of their past but can also be uncomfortable to read. Bits and pieces in the book talk about suicide and self harm from characters who are being bullied or depressed from oskar and eli— though Virginia is a tw for self harm because of what she is going through in the story.