Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

42 reviews

fschmidt2001's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

5.0

One of the coolest vampire stories I've ever read, also perhaps the most disturbing thing I've ever read.

One thing I found especially interesting is the characterization of Elie - their gender expression was one of the fun surprises halfway through the book, but more importantly I like that theyre still 12, even though theyre a 200 year old vampire -pretty much all other vampire stories have their child vamps possess the mind of an adult, and it was interesting to see another expression.  Also the biology of the vampiric disease was FASCINATING!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Death, Drug abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Medical content, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Drug use, Addiction, Murder, Pedophilia, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Excrement, Gore, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Alcohol, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

hauntedpostalworker's review against another edition

dark reflective tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gaslighting, Kidnapping, Sexual violence, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Pedophilia

amandalove2bme's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Violence, Child death, Murder, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Animal death, Blood, Adult/minor relationship, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Bullying, Child abuse, Pedophilia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, Death, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Addiction, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Kidnapping, Medical content, Alcohol, Body horror, Self harm, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Animal cruelty, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

klimtsonian's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Gory, graphic, and gripping. Perfectly juxtaposes the mundanity and sterility of modern, suburban existence with the pervasiveness of horror in every form — from the systemic to the supernatural. The prose is straightforward and incisive, with some really stomach-turning descriptions that linger on the details just enough to get the point across without reveling in it. Even through it all, there’s a hopeful, tender core to the story: that there is someone out there for everyone, no matter how fucked up.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Grief, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Torture, Murder, Sexual violence, Medical content, Pedophilia, Alcoholism, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Self harm, and Cannibalism

Moderate: Body horror and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Addiction

kyliesh's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

A book that I’ll truly think about for years to come and possibly a rare reread one day! I was completely immersed in the story and found that the author wrote several characters in such a way that you understood them through their complications. Very well written, intriguing, and unique.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Blood, Death, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Body horror, Gore, Murder, Bullying, and Pedophilia

mafaichney'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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Suicide, Animal death, Pedophilia, Murder, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Xenophobia

c0rpsekat's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Blood, Murder, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Medical content, Excrement, Torture, and Animal death

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Animal cruelty, Drug use, Bullying, and Animal death

kaanda's review against another edition

dark tense 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? Yes

4.5

Extremely dark in so many ways, but fantastic at holding tension. Truly horrific.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Bullying, Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Violence, Suicide, Blood, Body horror, Gore, Fatphobia, Murder, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Kidnapping, and Sexual assault

rocketsaurus's review against another edition

challenging dark tense medium-paced

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

0.5

Not a bad book per se, but so wildly outside of what I want to read more of I cannot let the Storygraph algorithm think I liked it. Finished our of pure spite. Incredibly fucked up, and if that's your thing you're gunna love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Gore, Sexual assault, Pedophilia, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Vomit, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, and Excrement

amoremeg's review against another edition

challenging dark sad slow-paced

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

2.75

This book was hard to get through. The dialogue was difficult to follow and often felt jumpy or truncated or stilted. I believe (I hope) there was some elegance lost in the translation. There are no winners. I don't know if any of the characters are actually good people. Maybe some are trying but it feels like the impulse to act out always wins, the impulse to not communicate always wins. There are so many irrelevant characters who did not need names and backstories- they were only introduced at all to bear witness to some moment, to be a third person perspective. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Gore, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Death, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Suicide, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Vomit, and Excrement