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A bullied boy befriends a strange girl who moves in next door
2004Steady paceDark
What it is about
Oskar is a lonely twelve-year-old in a suburb of Stockholm. A girl named Eli moves in next door, and she is not what she seems. At the same time, people in the neighborhood start to die.
Who will enjoy it
Readers who want a serious horror novel.
What you will get
It was adapted into a Swedish film in 2008.
Let the Right One In Facts: Pages, Genre and Setting
Genre
Horror · Vampire · Sweden · Friendship
Length
472 pages · ≈ 13 h
More about this book
Characters
Oskar, Eli and the neighbors.
Setting
Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in 1981.
What makes it different
A vampire story that is mostly a story of loneliness.
Feel
Cold, sad and violent.
It
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Full Dark, No Stars
The Shining
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