The novel is set in the early 80s, and centers around the relationship between a viciously bullied, incontinent 12-year-old boy, Oskar, who has developed some proper homicidal rage due to his life’s predicament, and a centuries-old vampire child, Eli, who moves in next door in a working-class Stockholm suburb. Let The Right One In (I’ve always been drawn to the title a reference to a Morrissey song, and to the belief that vampires can only enter a house if invited in) is a breath of fresh air, and hailed to the high heavens for it. There’s no denying that this is a rather original take on the vampire genre, released at the unfortunate time when Twilight stormed the bestseller lists (in English speaking countries, anyway, the original Swedish book predates Meyer’s effort by a year), saturated the vampire fiction market, and dragged the genre through the dirt in such a way that I’ll argue it will never completely recover from. Title: Let the Right One In (original Swedish title: Låt den rätte komma in)
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