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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

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kynikoskyon's review against another edition

DNF @ 19%

El problema no es tanto el libro, soy yo que no estoy logrando conectar con ninguna historia hasta ahora.... Qué me pasa?

aussiebroadwayfan's review against another edition

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medium-paced

Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

klparmley's review against another edition

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4.0

OMG! This is creepy! If you want monsters, they are here in abundance. Human and inhuman alike.

Yes!

agirlandherlibrarian's review against another edition

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3.0

My YouTube Review can be found here: https://youtu.be/g7RGR84E-XA

This book is very good, but... it has a lot of difficult passages to read and deals with extreme bullying of a 12 year old and paedophilia. It is a good horror book but it is hard to get past the very difficult subject matter.

As a vampire book it is a little different, and the fact it's a little girl is refreshing that she takes control and her power, that she meets our 12 year old getting bullied and moves to help.

calyxconcision's review against another edition

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2.0

This book was far too long than it had any right to be. There were a lot of lulls, repetitive situations, and, for me, it was one of those books you needed to be in the right mood to read. I think that must be why it took me over a month to read it. I'd note parts I liked, but it was so mind-numbing and repetitive, I can barely remember the parts I did. There were few interesting characters, the romances in the book felt clumsy and awkward - which I understand from Oskar, but not so much Virginia and Lacke - and overall, it was just generally hard to really get into.

psoglav's review against another edition

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4.0

UKUPNA OCENA (overall rating) - 7/10
Radnja (story) - 7/10
Likovi (characters) - 8/10
Pripovedanje (writing style) - 7/10
Okruženje (setting) - 7/10

teaandtales1's review against another edition

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dark slow-paced

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

2.75

This is a really well-written book that I did not care for. There's dark and bleak and then there's this book. As an avid horror reader it takes a lot to make me want to skim certain parts of a book because it's just *too much,* but I felt the need to do that on multiple occasions. There was just so much in this book that didn't really need to be there, and in the process I felt the story dragging me down further and further into its well of darkness.

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