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Little Star
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
“We are always in a certain amount of pain. There is chafing somewhere, and if it isn’t in our body, then it’s in our mind. There’s an itch, all the time.”
Book Review: Little Star by @johnajvidelindqvist
Don’t you think that sometimes, the right book comes along at the right time? After complaining on a post recently that I was in a bit of a slump, I picked up this absolute gem and BANG! After reading Let The Right One In (5⭐️)last year and Handling The Undead (4⭐️) this year, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on more JAL and I wasn’t disappointed.
The character building in this book is phenomenal. Both Theres and Theresa, while I think they’re intended to be unlikable girls, you really can’t help rooting for them! We’re obviously meant to hate Lennart, Max and possibly even Jerry to some extent and you really do! I was worried (after reading other reviews) that I wouldn’t enjoy the book being split into the perspectives of the different girls but for me it worked and I didn’t lose track of who was who and what was going on.
I don’t want to give too much away because the book really took a turn that I wasn’t expecting, I think that from the description you definitely expect certain things that do, in fact happen but for me, they happened in a way that I couldn’t have predicted.
It definitely raised for me the question of nature vs nurture. Are people inherently bad from birth or are they made that way due to their upbringing? And don’t even get me started on the creep and gore! Some of the things written in this book actually made me wince
Book Review: Little Star by @johnajvidelindqvist
Don’t you think that sometimes, the right book comes along at the right time? After complaining on a post recently that I was in a bit of a slump, I picked up this absolute gem and BANG! After reading Let The Right One In (5⭐️)last year and Handling The Undead (4⭐️) this year, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on more JAL and I wasn’t disappointed.
The character building in this book is phenomenal. Both Theres and Theresa, while I think they’re intended to be unlikable girls, you really can’t help rooting for them! We’re obviously meant to hate Lennart, Max and possibly even Jerry to some extent and you really do! I was worried (after reading other reviews) that I wouldn’t enjoy the book being split into the perspectives of the different girls but for me it worked and I didn’t lose track of who was who and what was going on.
I don’t want to give too much away because the book really took a turn that I wasn’t expecting, I think that from the description you definitely expect certain things that do, in fact happen but for me, they happened in a way that I couldn’t have predicted.
It definitely raised for me the question of nature vs nurture. Are people inherently bad from birth or are they made that way due to their upbringing? And don’t even get me started on the creep and gore! Some of the things written in this book actually made me wince